From glim at mycybernet.net Sat Mar 19 12:09:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (glim@mycybernet.net) Date: Sat Mar 19 12:37:18 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open Message-ID: ----------> Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 Registration now open. Conference dates: Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29 June 2005 Location: 89 Chestnut Street http://89chestnut.com/ University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Info at: http://yapc.org/America Direct registration: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 Full registration fee $85 (USD) Book now for great deals on accommodations and ensure a space for yourself. Speaking slots are still open. If you would like to present at YAPC::NA 2005, see: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml Details of this announcement: http://yapc.org/America/registration-announcement-2005.txt <---------- More Details ============ Registration for YAPC::NA (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) 2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is now open. The conference registration price is USD$85. This price includes admission to all aspects of the conference, respectable amounts of catering, several activities and a few conference goodies. The YAPC North America 2005 conference features... * Fantastic speakers + most are the core creators of the technology on which they present + many are professional IT authors, trainers and conference speakers * An excellent learning opportunity * A chance to meet Perl professionals from all over North America and the world + YAPC attendees tend to be very involved in Perl and so are another great way to learn more about what the language has to offer beyond just what the speakers have to say * Extra-curricular / after hours activities * A great location in downtown Toronto All this, and the price is more than an order of magnitude cheaper than what commercial conferences can offer. This is because YAPC is a 100% volunteer effort, both from its organizers and its speakers. Quality is *not* sacrificed to achieve this stunning level of affordability. YAPC provides the best value-for-dollar in IT conferences. And it's a ton of fun, too. The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005. The location is 89 Chestnut Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that a different date block was previously announced; we moved the conference date to accommodate venue availability.) http://89chestnut.com/ -- a facility within the University of Toronto If you are at all interested in attending the conference... Book now! Book now! Book now! We have room for about 400 attendees and we hope to sell out well in advance of the late June conference date. However, the critical matter is that of hotels. The YAPC::NA 2005 organizers have made group arrangements with several facilities around the city to provide _excellent_ quality accommodations in _very_ convenient locations at _terrific_ prices for the _full_ capacity of conference attendees (around 400 people). (Finding, booking and paying accommodations is the responsibility of the attendees, but we will provide you with a list of the hotels and university dorms to try first based on our group arrangement with them when you register for the conference. Also, see the web site at http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml. More details will be up shortly. The dorm option will be approx. C$55/night, the hotel options will be more like C$90/night, and for slightly different prices there will be options for putting more than 1 person in a room. Exact details and how to book will be emailed directly to people who have registered for the conference as soon as they become available.) *The catch is -- book now!!* The group reservations will expire in early May, at which point in time the group rates will mostly still apply, but the rooms will be given out on an "availability basis". Which means that someone else outside of the YAPC group can book the rooms as well. Make no mistake -- the rooms *will* be sold. Toronto is a very active conference city in the summer and there will be _no_ guarantee of vacancies either at the facilities we made arrangements with or anywhere else in the city if you leave it to within 6 weeks of the conference date. So, if you want to save yourself the likely-fruitless headache of scrambling around looking for accommodations at the last minute, Book now! Book now! Book now! Have any questions? Email na-help@yapc.org for more details. Additionally, we are still welcoming submissions for proposals via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm (Toronto time). If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author@yapc.org We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the organizers at na-sponsor@yapc.org to learn about the benefits of sponsorship. From schelcj at pobox.com Sun Mar 20 08:04:11 2005 From: schelcj at pobox.com (Chris Scheller) Date: Sun Mar 20 08:04:26 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Job opening Message-ID: <20050320160411.7231.qmail@mail.avlug.org> We our currently searching for a Software Engineer of Web Production to develop core technology, including the design and architecture of new solutions, the refinement of existing code, and the optimization of dynamic web content within an object-oriented Perl/mod_perl/Apache environment. You will be working with the production team to fulfill requests in the release cycle, assessing impact and involving the data systems and network operations teams when necessary. Write design specifications, programming specifications, and documentation. Locate and fix bugs in the existing code base in a timely manner. for more details: http://jobs.perl.org/job/2221 -- Chris Scheller | http://www.pobox.com/~schelcj | JID: schelcj@jabber.avlug.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ankh if you love Isis. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/grand-rapids-pm-list/attachments/20050320/4050ec51/attachment.bin From stigliz at gmail.com Tue Mar 22 15:15:31 2005 From: stigliz at gmail.com (Amedeo Guffanti) Date: Tue Mar 22 15:15:41 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Reseach on Open Source Developers Message-ID: Hi, I'm Amedeo Guffanti, a 22 years old Italian student at Bocconi university in Milan, I' m doing a research to write a work about Open Source Movement, in particular, about the developers. I try to collect the opinions of developers like you. My little poll is at this page : http://www.alberocavo.com/OSSprojects.asp It takes less then 4 minutes. I hope the Open Source Communities will give me a help for my research. I apologize for taking your time and for my English that I hope it's understandable ^^ Sincerly, Amedeo Guffanti From mheusser at charter.net Mon Mar 28 06:40:59 2005 From: mheusser at charter.net (Matthew Heusser) Date: Mon Mar 28 06:41:11 2005 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Hiring Perl Coders Message-ID: <3rr0ks$nkfr2g@mxip05a.cluster1.charter.net> Priority Health is currently hiring a senior PERL/SQL (Oracle) programmer. See: http://www.priority-health.com/corporate/careers/opportunities/ PH has a 37.5 hour work week, starts you out with 4 weeks of vacation a year, subsidizes a substantial portion of your health insurance costs, actually sends people to training, and has a healthy, growing culture. The dollar-for-dollar 401K match goes up to 5% and there is an annual performance sharing bonus; this year is was 2.95%. I'm having a blast. You could join us. Tell em Heusser sent ya ... Matthew Heusser, www.xndev.com mheusser@charter.net "The only legitimate purpose of defined process is to solve problems. So let?s start there. What problem do we have?" - James Bach, http://www.satisfice.com/articles/rbt-trouble.pdf