From jcalkins at swcp.com Wed Jul 12 18:49:28 2006 From: jcalkins at swcp.com (Joe Calkins) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:49:28 -0600 Subject: [ABQ-pm] (Fwd) Perl Monger t-shirts! I'm gathering orders n Message-ID: <44B55248.3017.304B5D9B@jcalkins.swcp.com> I have no idea how the following might be administered, but I wanted people to know that it's possible to get a Perl Mongers tee shirt. Any interest? Anyone want to be the banker/mail address for this? -- Joe Calkins jcalkins at swcp.com mobile (505) 321-6030 ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:19:53 -0500 From: Jay Hannah Subject: [pm_groups] Perl Monger t-shirts! I'm gathering orders now. It's baaaack! Once every 2 years or so since 1996 one or more Perl Monger groups have banded together to place a t-shirt order. In 2004 the Omaha Perl Mongers and the SouthFlorida Perl Mongers ordered about 60 shirts. This is your chance for 2006/2007. (Unless you'd rather go it alone, of course. -grin-) Details: http://omaha.pm.org/shirts.shtml If you think your group might be interested please let me know. Once your groups' order is set send me the list and your mailing address (Federal Express). I can't track dozens of local individuals per group, so I'll be counting on group leaders for all local footwork. If you want a shipping quote let me know and I'll try to chase one down for you based on some estimated order size... Order cut off is August 8th, 1 month from today. Be the shwankiest geeks in your area! :) Cheerio, j ------- End of forwarded message ------- From jcalkins at swcp.com Wed Jul 12 18:49:28 2006 From: jcalkins at swcp.com (Joe Calkins) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:49:28 -0600 Subject: [ABQ-pm] (Fwd) Call for proposals -- Perl Foundation Grants Message-ID: <44B55248.8053.304B5D2D@jcalkins.swcp.com> The first line of the link below reads, "If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals at perl-foundation.org." ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:39:32 +0200 From: Thomas Klausner Subject: [pm_groups] Call for proposals -- Perl Foundation Grants Hi! Please forward the Call for Proposals to your local groups. The last call didn't result in any grants because there weren't enough / interesting / correct proposals. http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/07/call_for_proposals_perl_founda.html ------- End of forwarded message ------- From jcalkins at swcp.com Mon Jul 17 14:06:10 2006 From: jcalkins at swcp.com (Joe Calkins) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:06:10 -0600 Subject: [ABQ-pm] (Fwd) [pm_groups] OSDC Israel 2007, Call for Participation Message-ID: <44BBA762.13958.1566BC75@jcalkins.swcp.com> I'd never considered forwarding the announcements of overseas conferences, but Gabor specifically requested it. Please let me know if you find this useful, so I know to forward others, and you may soon see announcements for conferences in places like China, Brussels and Argentina. -- Joe Calkins jcalkins at swcp.com ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:21:04 +0200 From: "Gabor Szabo" In February this year there were already several paticipants coming from overseas. I hope on the next conference we can have a massive presence of overseas Perl Mongers. I'd appreciate if you could distribute our Call for Participation to your local mailing lists. thanks Gabor Call for Participation Please mark your calendars! The organizers of OSDC::Israel are glad to announce that the next conference will be held on 20-22 February 2007. There will be additional events such as tutorials and a Perl 6 hackathon near the main conference; the exact schedule will be announced in the next month or so. OSDC::Israel is an international conference for Open Source Developers, running now in its second year in this form and as Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) for the three years prior to that. The conference has attracted renowned speakers worldwide, such as Mark-Jason Dominus, Audrey Tang and Larry Wall. This year's conference is held in participation with ICSEM '07, the Israeli Conference of Software Engineering and Management. Our venue is the Netanya Academic College, which has already graciously hosted us last year. We would like to invite speakers, volunteers, attendees and sponsors. Guests We already have two guests: * Audrey Tang, of Perl fame, lead developer of Pugs * Zeev Suraski, the CTO of Zend, maker of PHP Speakers A detailed Call for Papers can be found on the conference web site (). If you believe you have something interesting to say about software development, deployment, or management, especially in the Open Source context, we would like to hear from you. Past topics included (but were not limited to): * Code techniques (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby) * Powerful tools for any of the above * Interaction between technologies in Open Source * Software testing * Management techniques * How to make money from writing Open Source software * Future plans from language designers Main track talks will be 20, 45, or 90 minutes in length; in addition, there will be a lightning talk session intended for less experienced speakers or for those with small or humorous topics. Volunteers OSDC is a very low cost conference in the spirit of open participation and community sharing. One way of giving back to the community is to offer your time for any of these: * Design the web site of the conference - * Designing, printing, and distributing conference posters/flyers * Administrative help with billing * Production help (our interface to food, A/V, and other providers) * Assemble conference material * Docmaster (edit and produce conference proceedings) Any help you can give in one or more of these categories will be well appreciated! Attendees We are seeing a growing number of conference-goers, both from Israel and international guests. OSDC is growing nicely and we are happy for it! If you have any questions about arranging a visit to Israel please contact the organizers (see below). Tell and bring your friends! Sponsors OSDC is a gathering of highly skilled technological people. If you have benefited from the effort of Open Source people in the past, please consider sponsoring the event. We are not a commercial conference but your support will be acknowledged fairly. There is an option of a job fair this year; contact the organizers if your company is interested in participating. Communication: Mailing lists, wiki In order to ease communication the conference has two mailing lists: * Announcement list: * Discussion list: If you have not done so yet, please subscribe at least to the announcement list in order not to miss any important news. In addition we have a wiki: . The main conference web site: . Organizers Please direct all queries to organizers at osdc.org.il. -- Gabor Szabo Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il 08-975-2897 054-4624648 ------- End of forwarded message ------- From jcalkins at swcp.com Mon Jul 17 14:08:02 2006 From: jcalkins at swcp.com (Joe Calkins) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:08:02 -0600 Subject: [ABQ-pm] (Fwd) Lightning talks at OSCON 2006: Announcement Message-ID: <44BBA7D2.1372.156874A4@jcalkins.swcp.com> ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Dave Cross Organization: Perl Mongers Subject: [pm_groups] [Fwd: Lightning talks at OSCON 2006: Announcement for distribution] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Lightning talks at OSCON 2006: Announcement for distribution Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:29:53 -0400 From: Mark Jason Dominus Organization: Plover Systems To: user_groups at pm.org Please distribute this to your Perl Mongers groups. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: OSCON 2006 Lightning talks deadline extended There is still time to propose a lightning talk for OSCON 2006. The deadline has been extended through Monday, 25 July. Lightning Talks at the 2006 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Lightning talks are brief (5-minute) talks that focus on a single example, idea, project, or technique. Lightning talks do not attempt to cover all aspects of their subject matter, but rather to present one facet of the idea clearly and succinctly. To submit a proposal for a lightning talk, please send your proposed title and an abstract of up to four sentences to: osc-lt-2006-submit at plover.com For more complete information, visit: http://perl.plover.com/lt/osc2006/ Thanks. -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups ------- End of forwarded message ------- From marms at sandia.gov Mon Jul 17 14:12:37 2006 From: marms at sandia.gov (Arms, Mike) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:12:37 -0600 Subject: [ABQ-pm] (Fwd) [pm_groups] OSDC Israel 2007, Call for Participation Message-ID: <46EAC19F3066C14BB20DF799A649C5F4032E2980@ES23SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> I suppose there are more dangerous places to go these days, but not many. I would be very hesitant to go to Israel any time in the near future (read: in the next N years where N is > 1). Good luck with their trying to get attendees. -- Mike Arms marms at sandia.gov -----Original Message----- From: albuquerque-pm-bounces+marms=sandia.gov at pm.org [mailto:albuquerque-pm-bounces+marms=sandia.gov at pm.org] On Behalf Of Joe Calkins Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 3:06 PM To: Albuquerque Perl Mongers Subject: [ABQ-pm] (Fwd) [pm_groups] OSDC Israel 2007, Call for Participation I'd never considered forwarding the announcements of overseas conferences, but Gabor specifically requested it. Please let me know if you find this useful, so I know to forward others, and you may soon see announcements for conferences in places like China, Brussels and Argentina. -- Joe Calkins jcalkins at swcp.com ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:21:04 +0200 From: "Gabor Szabo" In February this year there were already several paticipants coming from overseas. I hope on the next conference we can have a massive presence of overseas Perl Mongers. I'd appreciate if you could distribute our Call for Participation to your local mailing lists. thanks Gabor Call for Participation Please mark your calendars! The organizers of OSDC::Israel are glad to announce that the next conference will be held on 20-22 February 2007. There will be additional events such as tutorials and a Perl 6 hackathon near the main conference; the exact schedule will be announced in the next month or so.