From pjf at perltraining.com.au Sat Sep 6 02:53:08 2008 From: pjf at perltraining.com.au (Paul Fenwick) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:53:08 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-pm] Contribute towards the Perl 5.8.9 release documents and get supper bragging rights. Message-ID: <48C25304.1040401@perltraining.com.au> G'day Sydney.pm, Canberra.pm, and Brisbane.pm, As some of you may have heard, I've volunteered to write the release notes for the upcoming 5.8.9 release of Perl. However I rapidly discovered there's an awful lot of changes that need to be examined and distilled into the final document that will become perl589delta.pod. Luckily, this is a task that's easily broken into chunks and run in parallel, and I've done exactly that. I've got a copy of all the changes that have gone into the 5.8 branch since 5.8.8 was released, and I've chunked it by month. Some months are quiet, with not many changes, and some months are very busy, with lots of changes. I'm making a call out to the Perl community to volunteer to help with the writing of the release notes. You don't need to be familiar with Perl's guts to do this; if you don't understand a change we'll have a "too hard" bucket that things can be thrown into, and someone (who may be me) will figure them out. Likewise, you don't need a lot of time; I'm not expecting everyone who volunteers for a chunk of work to finish the entire chunk, just as long as you work on it sequentially and let us know where you're up to, you can put it down at any time. Contributing to the perl589delta project directly helps with the release of Perl 5.8.9. However you'll also get a mention in the prestigious Perl authors file, which looks totally awesome on your resume, and gives you super bragging rights. If you're on www.ohloh.net, you'll get kudos from me, and commit points from the project. Your work will almost certainly give you enough material for a 5-minute "What's new in my bit of Perl 5.8.9" lightning talk, which will make you incredibly popular at conferences and user-groups. In order to get started, just follow the instructions in the README file at the bottom of our source control repository page at: http://github.com/pfenwick/perl589delta/ and sign up to the discussion list at: http://groups.google.com/group/perl589delta/ Feel free to track the repository or sign up the list even if you're not sure if you want to contribute, and are just curious about how all this works. We're happy to have the company! If you have any questions, you can ask on the list, e-mail me privately, or mail the perl589delta team at perl589delta at googlegroups.com Many thanks, and all the 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 stephen at sydney.pm.org Sat Sep 13 04:58:54 2008 From: stephen at sydney.pm.org (Stephen Steneker) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:58:54 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-pm] Canberra.pm social Friday Sept 19th? Message-ID: <17C63ECB-9707-4534-B9B2-FA6F2BF235B2@sydney.pm.org> Howdy folks, MikeB and myself (from sydney.pm) will be visiting Canberra next Friday. If y'all are up for a social meet from ~6pm, we'd be happy to bring along our camel mascot to the pub ;-). Not at all familiar with interesting spots to go in Canberra, but found the "Wig & Pen" (http://www.wigandpen.com.au/) which seems to have an impressive beer menu to sample! Any suggestions welcome .. we're staying in Kingston area, though nothing seems too far away in the CBD. Cheers, Stephen From megamic at gmail.com Tue Sep 16 02:41:45 2008 From: megamic at gmail.com (Michael Potter) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:41:45 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-pm] Canberra-pm Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <167f9c460809160241k4c5e4b98v6c0304d0457b425f@mail.gmail.com> The "Wig & Pen" certainly have an interesting range of beers ... if you like them strong on Hops that is. Last time I was there they had a glass filter full of hops that the beer passed through before it came out the tap! Otherwise King O'Malleys is an old favorite that is in a central location. And by the by - nothing seems far from anything in Canberra! I will be showing up - look forward to catching up with the regulars if they can make it. Cheers MP On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:00 AM, wrote: > > Send Canberra-pm mailing list submissions to > canberra-pm at pm.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/canberra-pm > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > canberra-pm-request at pm.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > canberra-pm-owner at pm.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Canberra-pm digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Canberra.pm social Friday Sept 19th? (Stephen Steneker) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:58:54 +1000 > From: Stephen Steneker > Subject: [Canberra-pm] Canberra.pm social Friday Sept 19th? > To: canberra-pm at pm.org > Message-ID: <17C63ECB-9707-4534-B9B2-FA6F2BF235B2 at sydney.pm.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Howdy folks, > > MikeB and myself (from sydney.pm) will be visiting Canberra > next Friday. > > If y'all are up for a social meet from ~6pm, we'd be happy > to bring along our camel mascot to the pub ;-). > > Not at all familiar with interesting spots to go in Canberra, > but found the "Wig & Pen" (http://www.wigandpen.com.au/) > which seems to have an impressive beer menu to sample! > > Any suggestions welcome .. we're staying in Kingston area, > though nothing seems too far away in the CBD. > > Cheers, > Stephen > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Canberra-pm mailing list > Canberra-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/canberra-pm > > End of Canberra-pm Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2 > ****************************************** From stephen at sydney.pm.org Tue Sep 16 04:41:54 2008 From: stephen at sydney.pm.org (Stephen Steneker) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:41:54 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-pm] Canberra.pm social Friday Sept 19th? In-Reply-To: <167f9c460809160241k4c5e4b98v6c0304d0457b425f@mail.gmail.com> References: <167f9c460809160241k4c5e4b98v6c0304d0457b425f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: > The "Wig & Pen" certainly have an interesting range of beers ... if > you like them strong on Hops that is. Last time I was there they had > a glass filter full of hops that the beer passed through before it > came out the tap! Otherwise King O'Malleys is an old favorite that > is in a central location. > > And by the by - nothing seems far from anything in Canberra! Heh .. looks like King O'Malleys is a (very!) short walk from Wig & Pen, so we may find our way to the King later in the evening. > I will be showing up - look forward to catching up with the regulars > if they can make it. Cool .. we'll be at the Wig & Pen from ~6pm. Look for the blokes with the thirsty camel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stennie/1112653228/ Cheers, Stephen From stephen at sydney.pm.org Thu Sep 18 01:03:18 2008 From: stephen at sydney.pm.org (Stephen Steneker) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:03:18 +1000 Subject: [Canberra-pm] REMINDER: Canberra.pm social Friday Sept 19th In-Reply-To: <17C63ECB-9707-4534-B9B2-FA6F2BF235B2@sydney.pm.org> References: <17C63ECB-9707-4534-B9B2-FA6F2BF235B2@sydney.pm.org> Message-ID: <2E4517B8-7041-4643-AE79-137EEE17CAAB@sydney.pm.org> Howdy folks, Reminder that we're on for tomorrow night, from 6pm at the Wig & Pen. Look forward to meeting some of you there ;). Cheers, Stephen On 13/09/2008, at 9:58 PM, Stephen Steneker wrote: > Howdy folks, > > MikeB and myself (from sydney.pm) will be visiting Canberra > next Friday. > > If y'all are up for a social meet from ~6pm, we'd be happy > to bring along our camel mascot to the pub ;-). > > Not at all familiar with interesting spots to go in Canberra, > but found the "Wig & Pen" (http://www.wigandpen.com.au/) > which seems to have an impressive beer menu to sample! > > Any suggestions welcome .. we're staying in Kingston area, > though nothing seems too far away in the CBD. > > Cheers, > Stephen >