From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Wed Jun 1 12:58:06 2011 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:58:06 -0400 Subject: [Baltimore-pm] reviving the list Message-ID: :) -- Brad Lhotsky From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Wed Jun 1 13:29:08 2011 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:29:08 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Zombie Mailing List wants brains! Message-ID: Welcome to the new mailing list, with fewer calories. I like the way the London.PM ran their mailing list, open forum with no penalty for Off Topic conversation. It builds a community. I'm hoping that's the case with this list as well. We're all in various fields and various positions all using Perl for something. The chances are there's a lot we can learn from eachother. More fun things coming including a schedule of talks for the next meeting! :) -- Brad Lhotsky From genehack at genehack.org Wed Jun 1 19:32:48 2011 From: genehack at genehack.org (John SJ Anderson) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:32:48 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Next Month's Meeting (Introducing an Agenda) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:51, Brad Lhotsky wrote: > 3) Attendance is low, and I've yet to get enough feedback as to why. > Of those who spoke up, #1 was lack of an agenda (solved), #2 was too > early so I pushed "official start" back to 7pm, but still give you > folks who want to come directly from work a spot to hang and eat some > pizza for 30 minutes before we "start." FWIW, dc.pm starts at 7:30pm. I think I'm probably reasonably unique in wanting to come up to the meetings from DC, but generally, later gets more people. > 4) Branching out into not just Perl topics, but keeping a thread of > Perl in those topics. ?IE, "I am DevOps and so can you! (with some > Perl scripts I wrote!)" You may also want to try to find other like-minded groups in the area and try to cross-pollinate. > 6) Baltimore Perl events? ?Over the next year, I'm hoping we can > really grow the group to the point where me suggesting Baltimore bid > for the YAPC::NA isn't a ludicrous idea. ?If not at least, a Baltimore > Perl Workshop? If you get around to thinking about doing this seriously, please try to reach out and coordinate with dc.pm. Some of us have kicked around the idea of trying to host a workshop, but I think it would probably be easier to hit the budgetary sweet spot in Baltimore... j. From awwaiid at thelackthereof.org Wed Jun 1 19:48:54 2011 From: awwaiid at thelackthereof.org (Brock) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:48:54 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Zombie Mailing List wants brains! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110602024854.GA6972@thelackthereof.org> *tap* *tap* ... this thing on? ... *tap* *tap* So we can say or discuss WHATEVER WE WANT?! hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm John -- I actually wouldn't mind heading up to Baltimore sometime, too. Maybe you can give me a ride :) --Brock On 2011.06.01.16.29, Brad Lhotsky wrote: > Welcome to the new mailing list, with fewer calories. > > I like the way the London.PM ran their mailing list, open forum with > no penalty for Off Topic conversation. It builds a community. I'm > hoping that's the case with this list as well. We're all in various > fields and various positions all using Perl for something. The > chances are there's a lot we can learn from eachother. > > More fun things coming including a schedule of talks for the next meeting! :) > > > -- > Brad Lhotsky > _______________________________________________ > Baltimore-pm mailing list > Baltimore-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/baltimore-pm > From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Sat Jun 4 13:43:24 2011 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 16:43:24 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Lots of Free Stuff Message-ID: I decided to reach out to O'Reilly and they've responded by providing an eBook copy of "Learning Perl, Fifth Edition" AND a coupon for a free ebook of your choice from their catalogue. If you've been putting off coming to a meeting, now is a good time, that's at least $60 per person of value! :) Help spread the word and let folks in our company know this might be a good time to come out from hiding and check out a meeting. We have some awesome presentations, free stuff, and free pizza/soda starting at 6:30pm. I've been updating the site: http://baltimore.perl.org Schedule of talks is up, and will be updated soon. I'm wondering if anyone would like to give a lightning talk on "what is modern perl?" I'll do it if no one volunteers, but I'm sure everyone's tired of hearing my voice :) Enjoy our weekend, -- Brad Lhotsky From genehack at genehack.org Mon Jun 6 07:34:47 2011 From: genehack at genehack.org (John SJ Anderson) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:34:47 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Zombie Mailing List wants brains! In-Reply-To: <20110602024854.GA6972@thelackthereof.org> References: <20110602024854.GA6972@thelackthereof.org> Message-ID: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 22:48, Brock wrote: > *tap* *tap* ... this thing on? ... *tap* *tap* > > So we can say or discuss WHATEVER WE WANT?! Scary, isn't it? > John -- I actually wouldn't mind heading up to Baltimore sometime, too. > Maybe you can give me a ride :) That might could be worked out. 8^) j. From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Wed Jun 15 10:07:10 2011 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:07:10 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Meeting Tomorrow Message-ID: We don't normally do this, but if you could shoot me an email if you're coming tomorrow, I will ensure we have proper quantities of pizza and soda. :) Also, remember to bring some flash media with you to receive the two free eBooks. I'll also have printed coupons for one FREE O'Reilly eBook of your choice, and this meeting is the ONLY way to get that! :) Tomorrow's meeting will be at the ETC in Canton. We will start with a social gathering at 6:30pm which includes the PIzza, Soda, and Socializing. We'll then get into more formal presentations at about 7PM or so, may be a few minutes later. If you can't make it til 7, there should still be some pizza left over, so you can snack during the talks if you'd like. I've updated the Agenda: http://baltimore.pm.org and provided a detailed "Directions to the ETC" link: http://baltimore.pm.org/directions-ETC.html (It has pictures!) We should be about an hour with talks and such. If there's interest, we can stumble out into the streets and find places to correct our swagger with alcohol, no pressure though. -- Brad Lhotsky From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Wed Jun 15 11:47:15 2011 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:47:15 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Meeting Night and Time Message-ID: Folks have requested various changes to the meeting night and time. Here's your chance to participate in a poll to determine which night and time! http://www.doodle.com/2mfbp8yzrz2srst9 If you don't participate, you don't have an excuse not to show up! :) -- Brad Lhotsky From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Thu Jun 16 15:59:09 2011 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:59:09 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Door is locked Message-ID: call 443 455 1006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.lhotsky at gmail.com Fri Jun 17 13:47:46 2011 From: brad.lhotsky at gmail.com (Brad Lhotsky) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:47:46 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Free Perl eBooks Message-ID: http://db0.us/~brad/PerlBooks.zip Contains "Modern Perl" and "Learning Perl Fifth Edition" in PDF, ePub, and mobi. This URL will be available this weekend only. After that, I'll be pulling it. If you need it after that, email me. -- Brad Lhotsky From Mike.Barry at refworks-cos.com Sat Jun 18 05:08:53 2011 From: Mike.Barry at refworks-cos.com (Barry, Mike) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:08:53 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Free Perl eBooks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Brad, Thanks for the books. Also thanks for a great meeting Thursday night. John, Jason, Dawn and you gave great talks. I'm looking forward to more great talks (and I promise a Moose talk next meeting for sure!). I'm also looking forward to the 'Dynamic Programming' meetup you're planning. If you can get the Ruby, Perl, JS, PHP and Python people all to one meeting, the UN might call you! Thanks again, -MikeB. On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Brad Lhotsky wrote: > http://db0.us/~brad/PerlBooks.zip > > Contains "Modern Perl" and "Learning Perl Fifth Edition" in PDF, ePub, and mobi. > > This URL will be available this weekend only. After that, I'll be > pulling it. 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