From pjf at perltraining.com.au Wed Apr 6 17:33:43 2005 From: pjf at perltraining.com.au (Paul Fenwick) Date: Wed Apr 6 17:35:36 2005 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Brisbane.PM and Perl.net.au Message-ID: <42547FE7.2080903@perltraining.com.au> G'day Everyone, There's been a few changes to the Brisbane.pm website recently, and these discussions (most of which unfortunately happened off-list) hilighted the fact that there's no simple way for local Brisbane.pm members to easily update or expand the website. Our current website maintainer is overseas, and while it's possible to gain access to edit the website using WebDAV and a discussion with the pm.org maintainers, doing so is far from trivial. One of my personal goals is to try and increase the activity of Perl user groups in Australia, and also to increase the interaction between groups, which have traditionally remained in their local geographic areas. With this in mind, I'd like to put forward a proposal to the group and see what people think. I've recently established http://perl.net.au/ with the intent of this acting as a portal for all things Perl in Australia and New Zealand. The site is running MediaWiki, the same software that powers the extremely successful Wikipedia. Anyone can edit pages on perl.net.au, and are encouraged to do so. I'd be very happy for perl.net.au to host the Brisbane.PM webpage, and would encourage Brisbane.PM members to edit and expand the page (and the rest of the site) as they see fit. Perl.net.au is intended to be a resource for the community, and I feel that it's important that user groups are able to grow and communicate without excessive administrative overheads. I've put a page up at http://perl.net.au/wiki/Brisbane_Perl_Mongers based upon the content of the current website. I've also made a few updates and corrections to the information. I'd now like to encourage *you* to update the website with anything you feel is important -- be it local projects, ideas and times for get-togethers, local members, discussions about how cool it was to meet up in September last year, or anything else that you think is relevant. You don't even need to create an account to make changes (although you're encouraged to do so), just hit the 'edit' button and go. I'd also love to gain feedback on whether anyone would think it's a particularly good or bad idea to redirect the current brisbane.pm.org to the perl.net.au page. This would make it much easier to keep the information on the page current and easy-to-maintain. Of course, if it's decided this is a bad idea I'm happy for any work I've done on the perl.net.au page to be incorporated back into the original site. All the very best, Paul -- Paul Fenwick | http://perltraining.com.au/ Director of Training | Ph: +61 3 9354 6001 Perl Training Australia | Fax: +61 3 9354 2681 From robertl at apnic.net Wed Apr 6 19:05:31 2005 From: robertl at apnic.net (Robert Loomans) Date: Wed Apr 6 19:05:43 2005 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Brisbane.PM and Perl.net.au In-Reply-To: <42547FE7.2080903@perltraining.com.au> References: <42547FE7.2080903@perltraining.com.au> Message-ID: <4254956B.6030202@apnic.net> > I've recently established http://perl.net.au/ with the intent of this > acting as a portal for all things Perl in Australia and New Zealand. Thanks, Paul and Jacinta, for the ongoing effort you both put in, in the face of the enormous apathy of the local Perl community (my own included). > I'd also love to gain feedback on whether anyone would think it's a > particularly good or bad idea to redirect the current brisbane.pm.org > to the perl.net.au page. I think it's a great idea. I think that Wikis are a great tool. Particularly if someone cares enough to provide a little oversight to ensure it keeps ticking over and doesn't get vandalised (Thanks again, Paul ;). In a virtual community where the round-to-it quota per capita is so small, the last thing we need is for people who *do* get around to doing something helpful, having to jump through hoops to do it. Cheers, Rob -- Robert Loomans, Programmer/Analyst Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Phone: +61-7-3858-3100 http://www.apnic.net Fax: +61-7-3858-3199 From glim at mycybernet.net Sun Apr 10 08:55:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (Gerard Lim) Date: Sun Apr 10 09:14:43 2005 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Reminder: Yet Another Perl Conference in Toronto, June 27 - 29 Message-ID: Yet Another YAPC::NA 2005 Conference Reminder --------------------------------------------- YAPC::NA 2005 is Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, this year to be held in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mon - Wed 27 - 29 June 2005. Important Dates/Deadlines ------------------------- April 18 -- deadline for paper submissions May 12 -- last day of guaranteed accommodations YAPC::NA is a grassroots, all-volunteer conference. The speaker quality is high, the participants lively, and there are many extra social activities scheduled. We expect a bit over 400 people this year, and registration is proceeding faster this year than in the past. The registration cost is USD$85. Information on registration: http://yapc.org/America/register-2005.shtml http://yapc.org/America/registration-announcement-2005.txt Direct link to registration: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Want to be a speaker? Deadline for proposal submission is April 18, just over 1 week from now. Go to: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml Need accommodations in Toronto? Go to: http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml If you book before May 13 you will be guaranteed a hotel space. After that getting accommodations will become progressively more difficult. Prices we have arranged are in two different price ranges: approximately US$50 for a dorm room, US$72 for a decent hotel room. All accommodations are very nearby the conference venue. This message comes from the YAPC::NA 2005 organizers in Toronto.pm, http://to.pm.org/, on behalf of The Perl Foundation, http://www.perlfoundation.org/ We look forward to seeing you in Toronto! If you have any questions please contact na-help@yapc.org From sez at storybridge.org Mon Apr 11 00:30:39 2005 From: sez at storybridge.org (Sarah Hollings) Date: Mon Apr 11 00:31:24 2005 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] sniff of a possibility of... Message-ID: <425A279F.5040906@storybridge.org> Anyone available for about a months contracting work? Would need experience of Perl OO, perl servers, and ideally speech recognition. I've been approached about this but am unavailable. If anyone would be interested I would forward their details to the inquirer. Rgds, -- Sarah Hollings From jarich at perltraining.com.au Tue Apr 12 22:18:24 2005 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Tue Apr 12 22:18:35 2005 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Group leadering Message-ID: <425CABA0.10104@perltraining.com.au> G'day folk, Jay (a Perl.org helper) and myself are still hoping to find a *local* Brisbane PM leader to do the tiny bits of administrivia required to keep a PM group going. Being a leader isn't supposed to be a big drain on your time, it's mostly just being a point of contact for the rest of the Brisbane PMers when perl.org want to contact someone. You'll have the ability to update the website, do al little bit of list moderation and might be encouraged by other Brisbane PMers to organise a meeting every year or so. If noone feels like they're able to take on this small task, how would you feel about me taking the position on? I'm all the way down in Melbourne, which has its own PM group doing quite well, so I'm not very local but I've got a WebDAV account with perl.org so I will be able to make any requested changes to the website and Paul or myself visit Brisbane at least once a year so I'm happy to organise that yearly meeting.... Alternately we can leave things as they are. If I understand correctly, the current Brisbane PM leader, Gordon Fletcher, is living in Manchester. I believe he's continued to handle the list-moderation side of being a leader but may not currently have access to the website. Perhaps, regardless of who the leader is, all the Brisbane-PMers could have a look at the Brisbane-PM page Paul has constructed at: http://perl.net.au/wiki/Brisbane_Perl_Mongers make any appropriate changes, and then the leader could use that as a new Brisbane-PM website? Alternately, I'm sure it would be possible for the leader to get perl.org to map http://brisbane.pm.org to the above URL. 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