From tom at eborcom.com Fri Apr 9 04:01:19 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:01:19 +0100 Subject: April/May's Tech Meet In-Reply-To: <20100330183900.GR265@eborcom.com> References: <4B9D024A.6020003@usa.net> <20100317112911.GK452@eborcom.com> <8FC4575E52D65D469A9511598C6843F076F892FF27@EXCPR2.corp.lch.com> <20100319101416.GT452@eborcom.com> <20100319102338.27a2e5d4.phil@creativespaces.co.uk> <20100319104017.GU452@eborcom.com> <20100330183900.GR265@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20100409110118.GO265@eborcom.com> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:39:00PM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > We still don't have any confirmed dates or a venue, but I've thrown > together some ideas on a Wiki: > http://unstruct.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page > > Please help out by sharing ideas, asking questions and making things > happen if you're interested in this meeting going ahead. How long should we wait before killing the barely used Wiki and treating the idea of a different type of technical meeting as a failure? Tom From peter at dragonstaff.co.uk Thu Apr 15 08:52:46 2010 From: peter at dragonstaff.co.uk (Peter Edwards) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:52:46 +0100 Subject: Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Donations to send-a-newbie for YAPC::EU::2010 In-Reply-To: <4BC72B32.2010104@shadowcat.co.uk> References: <4BC72B32.2010104@shadowcat.co.uk> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Keating Date: 15 April 2010 16:05 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Donations to send-a-newbie for YAPC::EU::2010 To: london.pm-announce at london.pm.org, northwestengland.pm at lists.scsys.co.uk Last year many individuals and companies donated money to the send-a-newbie initiative run by Edmund von der Burg. It was a great success. At the end of last year Edmund approached the EPO with the task of organising a similar event this year as he was unable to because of other commitments. Therefore I come to you all to ask you to donate once again to this excellent project, please make a donation at send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org (or send your donation to send-a-newbie at paypal.com (if you wish to make a donation in some other manner then please contact Mark at m.keating(at)shadowcat.co.uk)). If you made a donation last year, I thank you and would gratefully ask for you to do so once more.[1] If you are new to this idea allow me a few moments to describe it. The send-a-newbie scheme will allow people to attend a Perl conference (YAPC::EU for us, and this year YAPC::NA will have a scheme organised by the Perl Foundation) if: a. they have never attended a YAPC/Major Perl event previously; b. they are financially unable to do so; c. they work in/study/use Perl. The only changes we have made to the terms of entry this year is to broaden the scope. The Enlightened Perl Organisation members voted that we manage this initiative on the sole condition that it was open to all people regardless of age or circumstance (there were some minor restrictions in the previous year that did not reflect our requirements). This year we will be listing our sponsors on the website to express our thanks[2] and because we believe in openess of information. A list of names will appear that people can admire and give respect[3]. If you would like to/do donate and don't want your name listed then please contact Mark or Rosellyne and let them know and they will ensure that you are not listed. Thanks for your consideration, and thanks-in-advance to those who are considering donating. Kind regards Mark p.s. If you know of any list, forum where this information might be posted then I would kindly ask that you repeat it there. [1] Please, please, pretty please on bended knees :) [2] An almost exact opposite of name and shame. [3] Also they can perhaps feel sickened that they were too jaded to support such a great idea [hint, hint]. -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) | Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director | Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary | Enlightened Perl Organisation co-Leader | North West England Perl Mongers http://www.shadowcat.co.uk | http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://northwestengland.pm.org | http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andyfrommk at googlemail.com Tue Apr 20 12:51:54 2010 From: andyfrommk at googlemail.com (Andy Selby) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:51:54 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 27th April Message-ID: The monthly MKLUG/MiltonKeynes.pm meet-up is nearly upon us! As ever, it will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: http://osm.org/go/eu4qJDHoE-- Starting from 7pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. We usually inhabit one of the two large curved tables in front of the bar. Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to show off. From tom at eborcom.com Fri Apr 23 11:49:50 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:49:50 +0100 Subject: April/May's Tech Meet In-Reply-To: <20100409110118.GO265@eborcom.com> References: <4B9D024A.6020003@usa.net> <20100317112911.GK452@eborcom.com> <8FC4575E52D65D469A9511598C6843F076F892FF27@EXCPR2.corp.lch.com> <20100319101416.GT452@eborcom.com> <20100319102338.27a2e5d4.phil@creativespaces.co.uk> <20100319104017.GU452@eborcom.com> <20100330183900.GR265@eborcom.com> <20100409110118.GO265@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20100423184950.GQ265@eborcom.com> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 12:01:19PM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > How long should we wait before killing the barely used Wiki and > treating the idea of a different type of technical meeting as a > failure? If you know me well might recognise that I'm too stubborn to give up an idea that easily. But I'm also frustrated that we're making slow progress. I've just added a couple more sessions, but so far no session has more than one person interested in it. Those of you who said "yes, I'm interested" but haven't added the things you want to discuss, please tell me why. What were you interested in? What do you want us to discuss? Which ideas mentioned so far interest you? Presumably you said "yes" to something. If I'm not taking this in the direction you hoped, tell me. Many thanks to Peter, Ian and Sue for their contributions, and possibly even thanks to our anonymous contributor who wants to talk about something completely unrelated to Perl.. Tom