From jarich at perltraining.com.au Sat Aug 4 07:24:19 2007 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:24:19 +1000 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Fwd: OSDC volunteers: photos, Brisbane info, shirts, bags, etc. Message-ID: <46B48C13.7080703@perltraining.com.au> OSDC was started and originally run by Melbourne Perl Mongers, and has had a strong Perl presence ever since. If you've been wanting to feel more involved in OSDC now that it's happening in Brisbane, now's your chance. Below you'll find Arjen's call for volunteers. Depending on your task you may be able to ask for free registration. It's certainly worth a try! ;) Please contact Arjen: arjen at lentz.com.au if you're available to help out with any of this! All the best, Jacinta Begin forwarded message: From: Arjen Lentz Date: 4 August 2007 11:40:20 AM Subject: OSDC volunteers: photos, Brisbane info, shirts, bags, etc. (please feel free to forward this to any local list you may deem relevant - for gigs that involve dealing with local providers of services, people based around Brisbane would be preferred.) Hi everybody, As you might have read, the OSDC 2007 CfP yielded over 100 proposals and the program committee has been busy wading through it all. No confirmations yet, there's a lot of work there. Andrae has got his job cut out for him! In the coming months, there's a lot more that needs doing, and we're looking to you for these tasks. If you want to volunteer of any of these, please write to me! - high-res photos of the Bris skyline, city botanical gardens, other general images (URGENT - we have an offer to get some free printed advertising in magazines) Photos can also be used on the website, and naturally the photographer gets credited! - Brisbane info... a general story on Bris, the area around the conference venue, alternative places to stay, places to eat, things to do before/after the conference, etc. For an idea on this, see the 2006 site (link on the left bar from 2007 site) which has info about Melbourne. So, if you reckon you can do some research and write this up (augmented by photos from the prior point) that would be grand. - People to handle the conference bags, shirts and other things. There are ideas and known sources and in some cases quotes. You will need to research vendors based on this, get more quotes/samples, and follow through to the final delivery within our needed time frame. We'd prefer different people for each of these items, so you can focus on the one vendor in the end and see it through to completion. - People with desktop publishing skills. The conference book will need assembling. You will need to be able to use Acrobat to merge PDFs and do other layout stuff. James Iseppi has offered QUT facilities (Macs with Acrobat and other graphical tools) if necessary. This gig would also involve dealing with a printing company, although that could be made a separate task for another person. - The existing web site is fairly simple, and uses some server-side includes. If you reckon you can do some additional magic with it, please feel free to volunteer. Functional is more important than fancier though... it's a live site, with program and early bird registrations before too long. - If you want to volunteer for something else specifically, please drop me a note! Please note that although all of OSDC is a volunteer effort, it's serious stuff. If you take it on, you need to put in the effort and time and work with the others to make things happen. Everybody will be relying on you. With an event such as this, there are various things dependent on others, so deadlines are a necessity. For instance, if the conference bags aren't ready, they can't be "stuffed". You get the idea. You are not left on your own, but you'll have taken responsibility for the task and this it's considered "done". They're all responsible jobs. Thanks all! On behalf of the OSDC 2007 organising gang, Arjen. (mob. 0438 210 269) From kevin.osborne at gmail.com Mon Aug 6 19:27:50 2007 From: kevin.osborne at gmail.com (kevin.osborne) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:27:50 +1000 Subject: [Brisbane-pm] PerlMongers get together 1 August In-Reply-To: <200706131115.18356.Sarah.Smith@trolltech.com> References: <200706131115.18356.Sarah.Smith@trolltech.com> Message-ID: <3642969c0708061927n7cf65876n7cefcbfb9bd8132c@mail.gmail.com> Gidday Everybody Just wanted to thank Sarah & Buzz (& Trolltech & QM) for putting on such a great event. It was wonderful to get everybody together and some of us had the pleasant surprise of catching up with some unexpected old faces which was fantastic. Randal is an amazing guy and a pillar of the Perl community and we were lucky to have him, walking wounded and all :-) Congratulations all round for such a successful event. Cheers Kevin On 6/13/07, Sarah Smith wrote: > Hi Perlfolk, > > Here's an official invite to a PerlMongers get together: > > When: Wed 1 August 2007, 6:00pm > > Where:Trolltech, Lvl 1, 53 Brandl St > Brisbane Technology Park, > Eight Mile Plains > > What: Presentation by Randal Schwartz approx 6:15-7pm > General get together with beer, wine, finger food, > and pizza afterwards, > > Sponsors: > Trolltech, and QM Technologies > > Directions: > by car, come southbound on Logan Rd from the intersection > with Miles Platting Rd, and take the first left after the > service station. By bus, take the 111 from the city to eight > mile plains, walk (approx 10 minutes) along Miles Platting > and turn down McKechnie Drive. > > http://www.zoomin.com.au/australia/qld/brisbane/eight+mile+plains/brandl+street/53/ > > Help: Contact me, Sarah Smith, cell +61 416 045 401 > (or locally 0416 045 401) > > See you all there! > > Rgds, > -- > Sarah Smith BSc MACS > Senior Software Engineer > Ph +61 7 321 999 06 x109 > Trolltech (Australia) Pty Ltd > _______________________________________________ > Brisbane-pm mailing list > Brisbane-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/brisbane-pm >