From robert at robertblackwell.com Sat Nov 1 07:14:04 2014 From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 10:14:04 -0400 Subject: [Hardware-pm] Fwd: [perladvent] there are 30 days left In-Reply-To: References: <20141001221415.GA17058@cancer.codesimply.com> <20141101121309.GA11785@cancer.codesimply.com> Message-ID: FYI Articles are being collected for the Perl Advent Calendar. I know there are some interesting projects out there. I hope someone is interested in contributing. Happy Hacking Robert ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Fowler Date: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [perladvent] there are 30 days left To: the Perl 5 advent calendar Morning Ricardo. So, a brief set of updates: 1. I?m expecting a selection of articles to be delivered tomorrow[1] from select volunteers who I chased down and asked to contribute individually. This should get us the first ten or so (depending on drop out rate.) 2. There are people on this list who have volunteered to write articles (about another ten or so.) These people are about to get individual articles (probably tomorrow afte) asking them to write their articles in the next two weeks. 3. This leaves us with about ten articles to find (five to get us to 25, five to cope for no-shows.) I?m going to start emailing the second set of people on my aux list (now compiled by raiding the London Perl Workshop schedule now it?s up to find ?volunteers?) Things are never in hand. But the controlled panic is controlled. And panicy. Mark. [1] No-one should be working to a deadline that interferes with candy-gathering or distributing activities so I didn?t pick the 1st as a deadline. Of course, this plan could go to hell in a hand basket if no-one gets back to me tomorrow, but that?s why I?ve got On November 1, 2014 at 8:13:59 AM, Ricardo Signes (perl.advent at rjbs.manxome.org) wrote: * Ricardo Signes [2014-10-01T18:14:15] > On October 1st, it's traditional for me to email my family to remind them > that Christmas is on its slow approach, and that it's time to start getting > the kids to make wish lists and so on. It's November 1st, and I don't have any traditional emails that I send, but I still thought I'd send this one. -- rjbs ________________________________ _______________________________________________ perladvent mailing list perladvent at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/perladvent _______________________________________________ perladvent mailing list perladvent at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/perladvent From tmurray at wumpus-cave.net Sat Nov 1 10:19:29 2014 From: tmurray at wumpus-cave.net (Timm Murray) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 12:19:29 -0500 Subject: [Hardware-pm] Fwd: [perladvent] there are 30 days left In-Reply-To: References: <20141001221415.GA17058@cancer.codesimply.com> <20141101121309.GA11785@cancer.codesimply.com> Message-ID: I've been doing a live camera updater for my makerspace, so I could write about that. On Nov 1, 2014 9:14 AM, "Robert Blackwell" wrote: > FYI Articles are being collected for the Perl Advent Calendar. I know > there are some interesting projects out there. I hope someone is > interested in contributing. > > Happy Hacking > Robert > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mark Fowler > Date: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:23 AM > Subject: Re: [perladvent] there are 30 days left > To: the Perl 5 advent calendar > > > Morning Ricardo. > > So, a brief set of updates: > > 1. I?m expecting a selection of articles to be delivered tomorrow[1] > from select volunteers who I chased down and asked to contribute > individually. This should get us the first ten or so (depending on > drop out rate.) > > 2. There are people on this list who have volunteered to write > articles (about another ten or so.) These people are about to get > individual articles (probably tomorrow afte) asking them to write > their articles in the next two weeks. > > 3. This leaves us with about ten articles to find (five to get us to > 25, five to cope for no-shows.) I?m going to start emailing the > second set of people on my aux list (now compiled by raiding the > London Perl Workshop schedule now it?s up to find ?volunteers?) > > Things are never in hand. But the controlled panic is controlled. And > panicy. > > Mark. > > [1] No-one should be working to a deadline that interferes with > candy-gathering or distributing activities so I didn?t pick the 1st as > a deadline. > > Of course, this plan could go to hell in a hand basket if no-one gets > back to me tomorrow, but that?s why I?ve got > > On November 1, 2014 at 8:13:59 AM, Ricardo Signes > (perl.advent at rjbs.manxome.org) wrote: > > * Ricardo Signes [2014-10-01T18:14:15] > > On October 1st, it's traditional for me to email my family to remind them > > that Christmas is on its slow approach, and that it's time to start > getting > > the kids to make wish lists and so on. > > It's November 1st, and I don't have any traditional emails that I send, > but I > still thought I'd send this one. > > -- > rjbs > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > perladvent mailing list > perladvent at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/perladvent > > > _______________________________________________ > perladvent mailing list > perladvent at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/perladvent > _______________________________________________ > Hardware-pm mailing list > Hardware-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert at robertblackwell.com Sat Nov 1 10:36:11 2014 From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:36:11 -0400 Subject: [Hardware-pm] Fwd: [perladvent] there are 30 days left In-Reply-To: References: <20141001221415.GA17058@cancer.codesimply.com> <20141101121309.GA11785@cancer.codesimply.com> Message-ID: Timm I think you have been doing a lot of cool projects lately that could likely fill the calendar. You should let Mark Fowler know you are interested and see if he accepts your offer. On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Timm Murray wrote: > I've been doing a live camera updater for my makerspace, so I could write > about that. > > On Nov 1, 2014 9:14 AM, "Robert Blackwell" > wrote: >> >> FYI Articles are being collected for the Perl Advent Calendar. I know >> there are some interesting projects out there. I hope someone is >> interested in contributing. >> >> Happy Hacking >> Robert >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Mark Fowler >> Date: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:23 AM >> Subject: Re: [perladvent] there are 30 days left >> To: the Perl 5 advent calendar >> >> >> Morning Ricardo. >> >> So, a brief set of updates: >> >> 1. I?m expecting a selection of articles to be delivered tomorrow[1] >> from select volunteers who I chased down and asked to contribute >> individually. This should get us the first ten or so (depending on >> drop out rate.) >> >> 2. There are people on this list who have volunteered to write >> articles (about another ten or so.) These people are about to get >> individual articles (probably tomorrow afte) asking them to write >> their articles in the next two weeks. >> >> 3. This leaves us with about ten articles to find (five to get us to >> 25, five to cope for no-shows.) I?m going to start emailing the >> second set of people on my aux list (now compiled by raiding the >> London Perl Workshop schedule now it?s up to find ?volunteers?) >> >> Things are never in hand. But the controlled panic is controlled. And >> panicy. >> >> Mark. >> >> [1] No-one should be working to a deadline that interferes with >> candy-gathering or distributing activities so I didn?t pick the 1st as >> a deadline. >> >> Of course, this plan could go to hell in a hand basket if no-one gets >> back to me tomorrow, but that?s why I?ve got >> >> On November 1, 2014 at 8:13:59 AM, Ricardo Signes >> (perl.advent at rjbs.manxome.org) wrote: >> >> * Ricardo Signes [2014-10-01T18:14:15] >> > On October 1st, it's traditional for me to email my family to remind >> > them >> > that Christmas is on its slow approach, and that it's time to start >> > getting >> > the kids to make wish lists and so on. >> >> It's November 1st, and I don't have any traditional emails that I send, >> but I >> still thought I'd send this one. >> >> -- >> rjbs >> ________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> perladvent mailing list >> perladvent at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/perladvent >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> perladvent mailing list >> perladvent at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/perladvent >> _______________________________________________ >> Hardware-pm mailing list >> Hardware-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm