From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 5 00:22:35 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: Tr: 3rd German Perl Workshop: Submission Deadline 2000-10-23 Message-ID: <004101c02e8c$5701aa80$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Sigel To: Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: 3rd German Perl Workshop: Submission Deadline 2000-10-23 dear perl colleague, while you enjoy the yapc::europe 19100 afterglow, the 3rd German Perl Workshop (feb 28 till march 02, 2001) (also non-commercial, low-cost) is less than three weeks before its submission deadline for full talks or tutorials. http://www.perlworkshop.de/2001/ so if you are a perl geek, want to contribute, and even have some (basic) knowledge of german in order to get the best out of the other talks, please hurry up. deadline for extended abstracts is *** 2000-10-23 ***. please mail to: wsorga@perlworkshop.de, (and also should you have any question). natalie: we would be delighted if you could put a link from yapc::europe to our site http://www.perlworkshop.de/ in order to carry out the closer cooperation between YAS/YAPC and our efforts. is that possible? on behalf of the orga and program committee alex ---------------------------------------------- Alexander Sigel, M.A. sigel@bonn.iz-soz.de Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, R&D Lenn?str. 30, D-53113 Bonn, Germany +49 228 2281 170 tel, +49 228 2281 120 fax Homepage: http://index.bonn.iz-soz.de/~sigel/ From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 12 02:57:15 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 Message-ID: <013301c03423$eef66a00$c726000a@junior> I'm going to forward a few messages regarding the sponsorship of Damian Conway, a well-known figure in the Perl community to say the least. If this happens, Damian will settle to work full time in 2001 to improve the Perl language. Given the quality of the modules he has written (Parse::RecDescent, Text::Autoformat, Class::Contract, Quantum::Superpositions, Text::Balanced, Lingua::EN::Inflect, Tie::SecureHash, Class::Multimethods), the novel ideas he's constantly bringing to Perl and his well known expertise in the OO field, I can't wait to see how Perl will benefit from his involvment. Stephane From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 12 02:58:45 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: Forwarded : Re: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 Message-ID: <013501c03423$f13117c0$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg McCarroll To: London.pm Cc: Kevin Lenzo Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 12:55 AM Subject: Forwarded : Re: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 > > Just so kevin can bypass the moderation bunny, here is his response > (btw, Old Speckled Hen is damn good beer) .... > > > ----- Forwarded message from Kevin Lenzo ----- > > Delivered-To: gem@localhost.demon.co.uk > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:57:37 -0400 > From: Kevin Lenzo > Reply-To: lenzo@cs.cmu.edu > Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686) > X-Accept-Language: en > To: greg@mccarroll.demon.co.uk > Cc: london-list@happyfunball.pm.org > Subject: Re: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 > > Damian is utterly employable. The point is to free him to dedicate > full time to perl and the perl community; otherwise he has responsibilities > that keep him from doing that. He would be working on Perl and speaking > to everyone he can as a wandering guru. What we're doing is buying out > his obligations from Monash university so that he can spend his entire > time on this directly. > > As for Larry writing all of Perl while etc etc, this is not really relevant. > First off, the circumstances are different -- Perl is much different, and > the community is much different. Secondly, Larry is also now supported, > though by O'Reilly, in order to relieve the burdens of other work. Third, > this will allow Damian to work without being under the aegis of any > particular corporate interest directly. > > I see this as one of the best investments the Perl community can make, > because one of the best people in the world, perhaps the best person > next to Larry, can dedicate his valuable time without distraction. I > personally am going to be kicking in some money for it, and I know > several other Perl folks are, too. > > kevin > lenzo@cs.cmu.edu > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net > perl hacker | book collector | the very model of a modern mailing list kook > London.pm - meetings held on the day after the first wednesday of the month > From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 12 02:48:38 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: book excerpt Message-ID: <013201c03423$ee255e60$c726000a@junior> Dave Cross, London.pm's lead monger, was kind enough to send me sample chapters of his forthcoming book: Data Munging with Perl (Manning) One of our future activities could be to review these sample chapters, which sure look promising. Anyone interested? btw, we have to think about setting up our next meeting. Stephane From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 12 02:59:13 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 Message-ID: <013601c03423$f2a25b00$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Nathan Torkington To: Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:22 AM Subject: Re: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 > Paul Makepeace writes: > > So he goes on sabbatical and does some random contract work > > and makes a whole stack more than $55k (which should take > > about 2-3months in the US). > > I don't think he's eligible for a sabbatical right now. The point > is that Damian has done some amazing things with Perl and for Perl > in what has been a very tiny amount of time (squeezed into the > corners around the hulking mass of his teaching) that many of us > would like to fund 1 year of Damian making Perl his fulltime job > without him having to squeeze in making an income around it. > > I figure I'll invest $$$ in it (and not withdraw my sponsorship after > the year ends, thankyouverymuchiii). My return will be the output of > about one week of Damian's full-time effort on Perl. And it's not a > return on investment that I will turn into small bills and roll around > naked in, it's a return for everyone in the Perl community. > > This is the first step in what may become a larger program. Many of > the big names in Perl are not employed for Perl hackery, but instead > do it after hours or when the boss isn't looking. We might be able to > employ a pumpking, or a core hacker, or hire someone to actively > maintain abandoned CPAN modules, or port Perl to the PalmPilot, or > anything else that volunteers shun or burn out at. YAS can act as the > collective purse of the Perl community, helping us pool our resources > and fund projects that make Perl better. > > And Damian's work will definitely make Perl better. I can't wait to > be able to parse Perl with Perl code. This will make filter modules > of all sorts possible (macros! currying! lint!). His potential as > an academic and good writer, for making Perl more respectable in the > eyes of the OO-worshipping unwashed masses, could finally be tapped > (instead of, "Sorry, Dr Conway, but that line of research isn't > directly tied to a profit source at the end, so please move on to > something else"). He'd be able to be active in the online community > (mentoring newsgroups) as well as in the physical community (being > a highly respectable ambassador for Perl). > > So we'd be buying part of a hacker, part of an ambassador, and part of > a mad scientist. Much better use of money than feeding my family, I > think :-) > > Nat From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 12 03:01:03 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: JOB: looking for Perl guys who can spare 5 mins Message-ID: <013801c03423$f5729200$c726000a@junior> This is 2 days old now, sorry. Stephane ----- Original Message ----- From: Mayur Jobanputra To: Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:49 AM Subject: looking for Perl guys who can spare 5 mins > I am looking for a script that is very similar to the PerlMagic Mogrify tools, except that I can't install the ImageMagick program on the server (NT server). The script requirements are VERY simple: > > 1. I want to pass a single image (jpeg or gif) at the command line to the script (ie : img src="/cgi-bin/resize.cgi?betty.jpg">). The original image is either GIF or JPEG (I can run two different scripts if necessary - resizegif.cgi and resizejpeg.cgi) and is a large image (<30K), but I want that down to 2-4K. > > 2. the script should simply take an image, resize it, and then display it. Ideally, the image should be within the boundaries of 120x120, or even better be able to tell if the image is portrait, landscape or square, and resize accordingly. I have seen dozens of thumbnail gallery scripts, but nothing that does something as basic as what I want. All the other scripts try to give me all sorts of HTML crap that I don't want. I just want to perform the resize on a single image!!!! so I can place my own HREF tags around it!!! > > Anyone, please help! I am willing to throw in a $20 gift certificate at Amazon if anyone can give me a script that is ready to run!! > > From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 12 02:59:44 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 Message-ID: <013701c03423$f41217a0$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Cross To: Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:33 PM Subject: Re: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 > At 22:11 11/10/00, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >Fill me in -- Damian's unemployable and needs help or what? > >If Larry et al can write perl while at netlabs, etc... > >What's the special situation here? > > No, it's nothing like that. > > Basically the deal is that Damian is employed by Monash Uni in Australia > and whilst they see his Perl work as interesting and useful, they also > employ him do to other things like give computer science lectures. > > The $55 that Kevin is trying to raise will effectively "pay off" Monash for > a year so that Damian becomes all ours and can work on whatever he (or we) > deem most important. Without students getting in the way. > > hth, > > Dave... > > -- > SMS: sms@dave.org.uk > > "The blackness would hit me and the (void) would be calling..." > From rondal at usa.net Thu Oct 12 02:58:05 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 Message-ID: <013401c03423$efa76a80$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg McCarroll To: London.pm Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: Forwarded : [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 > > im sure the london.pm chapter could donate some cash for this, i know > id be willing to give $1k > > ----- Forwarded message from kevin lenzo ----- > > Delivered-To: gem@localhost.demon.co.uk > X-Authentication-Warning: token.metronomicon.com: mail set sender to yas-talk@metronomicon.com using -f > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:24:31 -0400 > From: kevin lenzo > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test4 i686) > X-Accept-Language: en > To: yas-talk@yetanother.org > Subject: [yas] YOU can Support Damian Conway in 2001 > Precedence: bulk > > Hello All, > > YAS has an opportunity to support Damian Conway for a year to > work on ... just Perl. To do this, we will need to "buy out" > his obligations at Monash, and also raise some travel and > expense money. This is one of the best investments we can make > in the Perl community, in my opinion. > > Damian has agreed to speak for some of the major sponsors > wherever possible, and to groups of Perl users wherever > he goes. > > YAS should be receiving word of the non-profit status shortly. > If this comes through (and it is expected to), all donations > will be tax deductible in the US. > > We will be arranging for a web page to accept donations > shortly; if you or your employer would like to make matching > donations, or would like to contribute a chunk, we will > be listing all the contributors as sponsors of Damian in > public places (unless you want to be anonymous). > > Please email me directly if you have any questions. I > will personally in China for ten days starting Friday, > but I will attempt to get email access while there, and you > can also contact Kurt DeMaagd (kurt@thepope.org), who > will ultimately be accepting and redistributing the > finances. as YAS money guy. > > More information will appear at > > http://www.yetanother.org/damian/ > > Included below are quotes from some emails on the topic. > > Yours, > > kevin > > >From Damian: > > > My goal is to secure a grant to let me move to a Research Fellowship at > > Monash in 2001. Then take my Monash sabbatical year in 2002 and spend some > > of it in the States somewhere. Then by 2003, either secure another grant > > or move to being self-funding via writing, speaking, and training. The > > goal is to be based in rural Australia, with 3-5 trips to the U.S. per > > year for conferences, training, and other speaking engagements. > > > > My hope is that I could be doing all that in such a way that my time is > > entirely devoted to the betterment of the Perl community, in terms of > > new module development, language design, new journal articles and books, > > private and public training, conference organization and speaking, and > > other public appearances. > > Another from Damian: > > > > > > What would I do? > > > > * Continue to work on helping develop Perl 6. > > > > * Present papers, invited talks, and tutorials at > > various Perl (and related) conferences around the > > world -- at very least YAPC::America, YAPC::Oz, TPC, > > Bang!Linux. And possibly YAPC::Europe assuming I can > > find extra funding. > > > > * Visit the US several times. Give talks to PM groups > > wherever I travel. > > > > * Maintain, extend, and offer support for my existing > > modules: Parse::RecDescent, Text::Autoformat, > > Class::Contract, Quantum::Superpositions, > > Text::Balanced, Lingua::EN::Inflect, Tie::SecureHash, > > Class::Multimethods. > > > > * Develop new and exciting modules: Class::Proxy, > > Regexp::Common, Parse::Slotted, Sub::Literate, > > Mail::TRUCE, Lingua::Tlhingan::ghun, etc. > > > > * Write at least three articles for The Perl Journal. > > > > * Guest edit a special OO issue of TPJ > > (if Jon is still interested). > > > > * Begin work on my new two volume book: "Perl Masterclass". > > > > * Remain active in the Perl newsgroups. > > > > * Be creative. :-) > > > > > > What would it cost? > > > > The cost would be A$95,492, which at the current > > exchange rates is approximately US$55,000. > > > > > > How would it be structured? > > > > Preferrably as a special grant to Monash University. My > > salary and costs would then be paid out of that grant > > (with infrastructure and equipment covered by Monash), > > through the university's normal mechanisms. > > > > Taking the funding as a grant allows Monash to keep it > > as low as indicated above (since they get parity funding > > on all external grants from the government). I would > > assume that there might also be tax benefits to the > > donor in endowing an educational grant. > > > > > > When would it need to be in place? > > > > Our teaching schedule for 2001 is finalized in early > > October. My Head of School is very keen to know by then > > what I am doing in 2001. > > > > Yet Another: > > > > > I was thinking about this last night and I realized what I would really > > like to work on is something that feeds into this, but is far more generally > > useful...a module named Parse::Perl. > > > > The idea would be to reimplement Parse::RecDescent to dramatically > > improve it's performance (the long promised version 2.0) and then use that > > to develop a complete grammar-based parser for Perl source code. > > > > The Parse::Perl module would provide hooks to allow users to plug in > > their own actions at any level of the grammar, making it vastly easier > > to write: > > > > * pretty printers > > > > * syntax colourers > > > > * source filters > > > > * documents with embedded Perl > > > > * p52p6 > > > > Of course, the new version of RecDescent and the consequent Parse::Perl > > module would be "Pure Perl"(tm), as are all my modules, so they would run > > equally well anywhere. > > > > The Parse::Perl module might also be useful for prototyping the Perl 6 > > grammar (i.e. p62p5). > > And finally: > > > > > You already have me at your complete disposal for YAPC::America and I'm > > putting in place a policy of talking to interested Mongers groups in > > *every* city I visit. For example, during the U.Perl tour next month I'm > > giving public seminars in Seattle, Chicago, and NYC (LA and Atlanta miss > > out only because of the awful travel and time constraints of this > > frenetic trip). > > > > Assuming I'm Perl-funded in 2001, I would plan: > > > > * a 3-5 week trip to India (where I've been invited to be the > > guest Perl guru at Bang!Linux in Bangalore) in early March, > > > > * a 3-4 week trip to the U.S. in April/May, > > > > * a much longer trip to the U.S. between YAPC::America and TPC > > > > * a 3-4 week trip in September/October including > > YAPC::Europe and the U.S. > > > > Subject to finding the funding to travel, I would naturally be available > > *everywhere* I was, to give free talks on the usual range of mind-boggling > > ideas. And, of course, I'd be amenable to planning the trips so that I > > was able to give talks in locations convenient to major contributers. > > > > > > > > > Can you tell me what the figures are again? The basic > > > cost is $55K US, > > > > The basic cost was AUS$95,492, which was around $US55K last month and is > > closer to US$50K this month. The AUS$ is artificially low (US$0.54) at > > present, due to market concerns about the Euro, and is more than likely > > to rebound (back to around US$0.60) once the market realizes what a > > bargain it is -- after the Olympics, I suspect. That would make the > > basic buyout figure rebound to US$55K. So I suspect that's what we > > should keep quoting. > > > > > > > and then there was other money. > > > > US$55K keeps my family fed and clothed, and frees me from local work > > to devote myself entirely to "Perl stuff". But as it only covers my > > salary; it doesn't fly me over to the U.S., or around the U.S., or > > accommodate me whilst I'm there. > > > > O'Reilly are bringing me over for the YAPC-to-TPC trip, and *might* > > cover the EuroYAPC/September trip if the U.Perl runs again next year. > > The India trip would be covered by Bang!Linux, but that still leaves > > either one or two transPacific return airfares, plus internal flights, > > plus accommodation. *Some* of that I would cover myself, if I could > > arrange to give some paying courses whilst I'm there, but it still > > leaves a hole of around US$15,000-$20,000 if you want me speaking in > > the States more often. > > > > Clearly, that extra funding is not critical to the success of the year > > in terms of output, but it *might* be in terms of profile and perceived > > direct return to the Perl community. I would like nothing better than > > to speak in a dozen or more U.S. cities next year, but I have to *get > > there* to do that. > > > > (Incidentally, this issue of travel funding is probably the main reason > > I'm not at YAPC::Europe this week). > > > > > > > We've only been talking about the $55K so far, but I don't doubt we > > > can make something happen through YAS. > > > > That would be brilliant. > > > > Once again, thanks for going in to bat for me so strongly, Kevin. > > I really was getting concerned that I'd have to drop out of most > > of my Perlish activities next year, but you've given me hope that > > instead, I may actually be able to increase them! > > > > > > Damian > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net > perl hacker | book collector | the very model of a modern mailing list kook > London.pm - meetings held on the day after the first wednesday of the month > From rondal at usa.net Mon Oct 16 07:28:35 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: FW: Support Damian Conway for a year Message-ID: <015d01c0376c$bea42d00$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg McCarroll To: London.pm Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: Support Damian Conway for a year > > here is the latest release on this one .... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Support Damian Conway for a year > > Hello All, > > A few days ago Kevin mailed you to tell you about the opportunity to > support Damian Conway for a year by buying out his obligations at > Monash University. We now have in place the ``registration'' page in > order to take donations, > > http://registration.yapc.org/ > > We are also very pleased to announce that BlackStar > (http://www.blackstar.co.uk/), an online Video & DVD retail company > which uses Perl heavily in their site (and also a major sponsor of > YAPC::Europe 19100), has generously offered to match all donations up > to a total of 27,500 US dollars, half of the target amount! > > For more information about why we want to support Damian for this > year, please go to, > > http://www.yetanother.org/damian/ > > If you have questions please feel free to email Kurt > (kurt@thepope.org), Kevin (lenzo@cs.cmu.edu) or myself > (greg@mccarroll.demon.co.uk). > > regards, > > Greg > > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net > perl hacker | book collector | the very model of a modern mailing list kook > London.pm - meetings held on the day after the first wednesday of the month > From rondal at usa.net Mon Oct 16 07:29:20 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: FW: Damian (imb) is on /. Message-ID: <015e01c0376c$bffb7fa0$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Philip Newton To: Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Damian (imb) is on /. > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/15/1724258 , in case someone wants > it after the article's left the front page. > > Cheers, > Philip From rondal at usa.net Wed Oct 18 06:13:12 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: brussels? Message-ID: <010c01c038f4$961f8e40$c726000a@junior> Anyone working in Brussels? If so we could arrange for a lunch. Stephane From rondal at usa.net Wed Oct 18 06:25:14 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: FW: Larry Wall's Perl 6 Speech Message-ID: <014801c038f6$180a1c80$c726000a@junior> Forwarded from london.pm ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Cross To: Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:58 AM Subject: Larry Wall's Perl 6 Speech > > ... is apparently available at > > > > but as I don't have an hour and a half to listen to it right > now, I cant' give you any details on what it contains. > > Dave... > > -- > > > "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one", > he said. But still they come. > > > > From bart.lateur at skynet.be Wed Oct 18 09:13:58 2000 From: bart.lateur at skynet.be (Bart Lateur) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: FW: Larry Wall's Perl 6 Speech In-Reply-To: <014801c038f6$180a1c80$c726000a@junior> References: <014801c038f6$180a1c80$c726000a@junior> Message-ID: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:25:14 +0200, David Cross wrote: >Subject: Larry Wall's Perl 6 Speech >> >> ... is apparently available at >> >> >> >> but as I don't have an hour and a half to listen to it right >> now, I cant' give you any details on what it contains. Nathan Torkington already went through the trouble transcribing the first hour, and posted it on the perl6-meta mailing list. It is already archived at And no, it didn't take me a full hour to read it. -- Bart. From rondal at usa.net Fri Oct 27 04:28:57 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: Tr: Damian Conway Fund Message-ID: <010601c03ff8$576bdd60$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Lenzo To: Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:27 PM Subject: Damian Conway Fund > Hello, All -- > > Please pardon the email; if you haven't heard, we're trying > to raise enough money (US$55K) to buy out Damian Conway's > responsibilities at Monash so he can work on Just Perl for > a year. He has several projects in mind, and would also > be wandering to give talks at Perl mongers groups throughout > the world. > > We still need some $10K; if you can, and would like to > contribute, or to find out more information on the > Damian Conway in 2001 fund, please see > > http://yetanother.org/damian/ > > This is being done through the Yet Another Society, > host of YAPC, and sister organization to the Perl > Mongers. > > Thank you, > > kevin > lenzo@cs.cmu.edu > > **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX ** > **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe groups" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** From rondal at usa.net Mon Oct 30 02:33:07 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: Forwarded : [yas] Damian Conway Awarded Perl Development Grant Message-ID: <00c601c0425d$637e7ec0$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg McCarroll To: Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 11:13 PM Subject: Forwarded : [yas] Damian Conway Awarded Perl Development Grant > ----- Forwarded message from kevin lenzo ----- > > Delivered-To: gem@localhost.demon.co.uk > X-Authentication-Warning: token.metronomicon.com: mail set sender to yas-talk@metronomicon.com using -f > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:59:54 -0500 > From: kevin lenzo > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test4 i686) > X-Accept-Language: en > Subject: [yas] Damian Conway Awarded Perl Development Grant > Precedence: bulk > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > Yet Another Society Community Funded Perl Development Grant > Awarded to Damian Conway > > Sun Oct 29 16:07:57 EST 2000 > > In an unprecedented two week contribution period, users, programmers, > and companies involved with the Perl community raised enough > funding to grant Damian Conway the first-ever Perl Development Grant > through the Yet Another Society (http://yetanother.org). > > "The community just came together immediately and turned this from > a possibility into a reality, in an unbelievably short time. Damian > has been one of the most active members of the Perl community, and > now he has a chance to spend a year working on something he really > cares about -- Perl," said Kevin Lenzo, the president of Yet > Another Society. "Individuals and companies that care about Perl > have carried out a new kind of patronage here." > > Blackstar (http://www.blackstar.co.uk), an on-line video sales > company, offered US$27,500 in matching contributions at the start of > the fund raising, amounting to half of what was needed to buy out > Dr. Conway's obligations at Monash University in Australia. Other > major contributions came from VA Linux (http://www.valinux.com), > Manning Publications (http://www.manning.com), Stonehenge Consulting > (http://www.stonehenge.com), O'Reilly Publications > (http://www.oreilly.com), and from several individuals. Funding over > the base amount is to be used for travel and expenses. > > See http://yetanother.org/damian/ for more information. The list > of contributors will be posted there, as will Dr. Conway's diary > and calendar for the next year. > > Yet Another Society (YAS) is an organization dedicated to the > advancement of collaborative efforts in Computer and Information > Science, and is the parent organization of the Yet Another Perl > Conference (http://www.yapc.org). YAS has applied for non-profit > status in the United States. Dr. Damian Conway is a Lecturer > at Monash University, and has contributed greatly to Perl. He > is also the author of the book "Object Oriented Perl." > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net > perl hacker | book collector | the very model of a modern mailing list kook > London.pm - meetings held on the day after the first wednesday of the month > From rondal at usa.net Tue Oct 31 06:11:03 2000 From: rondal at usa.net (Stephane Rondal) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:06:34 2004 Subject: FW: Pro Perl authors Message-ID: <01d801c04333$a5ac4ee0$c726000a@junior> ----- Original Message ----- From: Julia Gilbert To: Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:52 PM Subject: Pro Perl authors > Hi Stephane, > > My name is Julia Gilbert and I am an Author Agent for Wrox > . > > You may be familiar with our range of books. Our trademark is "Programmer > to Programmer", because Wrox books are written by professional programmers > for professional programmers and are subsequently reviewed by professional > programmers. > > We are currently in the process of producing a publication dedicated to > professional Perl programming and are seeking authors who have the expertise > to write chapters on one or more of the following subjects:- > > 1) Perl and Relational Databases > (access to MS SQL servers via the Sybase drivers, Oracle, and probably a bit > of MySQL too. Modules that should be covered include DBI::W32ODBC, > Win32::ODBC, Win32::DBIODBC, DBFramework, and Tangram) > > 2) Embedding Perl into Web Pages > (Why embed Perl, Perl-ASP/PerlScript, EmbPerl, ePerl, HTML::Mason) > > 3) Mathematical and Computational Applications > (Perl Math Modules, Mathematical Algorithms with Perl, Matrices, > Cryptography) > > 4) Distributed Perl Programming > (IPC, RPC, CORBA) > > 5) Perl and Other Programming Languages > (Using C from Perl, writing with the POSIX.pm module, syscall, Devel::Peek, > DynaLoader.pm, Using Perl from C, Converting Perl into C, Converting Perl > into Bytecode (and back)) > > 6) Perl and Unicode > ([perlunicode] (I18N.pm), use utf8.pm, use bytes.pm) > > 7) Locale and Internationalization > (use locale, Unicode, Time and Timezones). > > In addition to these chapters, we need authors to write the following > sections: > > * A section on "Perl IDEs and Editors" > * Integrating Perl with IIS > * Integrating Perl with Netscape > * A set of short sections on web protocols covering MailTools > modules, Mail::POP3Client, libnet modules (namely, Net::SMTP, Net::POP3, > Net::FTP). > > > We would need your first draft of the chapter(s)/section(s) before the end > of November, so please let me know ASAP if you are interested in writing for > us. > > You are welcome to pass my enquiry on to any colleagues who you think may be > interested. > > I look forward to hearing from you soon, > > Julia > > Julia Gilbert > Author Agent > > Wrox Press > http://www.wrox.com > >