From matt at omega.org Mon Oct 6 15:29:46 2008 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:29:46 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Wednesday, October 9th, 2008 Message-ID: Hello Friends: Wednesday, October 9th, 2008 may be a perl meeting. Is there interest? The last I heard Ian called the library and canceled the tech presentation. I'm up for a social coffee meeting Wednesday. -Matt Johnson From matt at omega.org Mon Oct 6 16:22:35 2008 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:22:35 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Frozen perl 2009 call for volunteers In-Reply-To: <48A5B842.80000@umn.edu> References: <48A5B842.80000@umn.edu> Message-ID: Maybe for Wednesday Leonard can give a report on how the Frozen Perl 2009 planning is going. -Matt On Aug 15, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Leonard Miller wrote: > Greetings everybody, > > Not all of you know me, so I will start with an introduction. > My name is Leonard Miller, I work at the University, and helped plan > and execute Frozen Perl 2008 (FP08). Last year at about this time > Dave Rolsky, myself and several others started planning for FP08. > > I am calling for volunteers to help us put on Frozen Perl 2009. The > tentative date for the event is Saturday Feb 7th. > > If you are only interested in just helping a little, or if you want > to help in every aspect, please come to our kickoff meeting and find > out how you can help. Even if you only have a small amount of time > available, or cannot help on February 7th, Please come and find out > if there is something you can help with. > > We will be meeting on Thursday August 21st, 8:00pm at Common Roots > Cafe on Lyndale in Minneapolis > http://www.commonrootscafe.com/ or google maps: http://tinyurl.com/CommonRoots > > Our agenda for the meeting, will include: > > * Introductions > * Venue & Date > * Timeline of events (registration, call for speakers, caterer > orders, etc) > * Sponsors > * Tentative Budget > * Individuals roles > * Registration Rates > * Theme of the workshop > * Future Meeting times/places > > If you are interested in helping out, but cannot make this meeting, > please email me, and we can find out how you can help. > > Leonard Miller > > _______________________________________________ > Mpls-pm mailing list > Mpls-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm From matt at omega.org Tue Oct 7 12:49:59 2008 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:49:59 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] perl mongers meeting tomorrow. Message-ID: <1223408999.13750.1278045463@webmail.messagingengine.com> The meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday October 8th, not October 9th. Again the meeting is on October 8th. Please RSVP to the list. Thanks -Matt Johnson -- Matthew Johnson Software Consultant Minneapolis, MN +1 612 392 2185 matt at omega.org From matt at omega.org Wed Oct 8 16:18:24 2008 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:18:24 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Wednesday, October 9th, 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm canceling tonight's meeting from lack of interest. Hope to see you in November. -Matt On Oct 6, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Matthew Johnson wrote: > Hello Friends: > > Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 may be a perl meeting. Is there > interest? The last I heard Ian called the library and canceled the > tech presentation. > > I'm up for a social coffee meeting Wednesday. > > > -Matt Johnson > _______________________________________________ From autarch at urth.org Fri Oct 10 13:17:31 2008 From: autarch at urth.org (Dave Rolsky) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:17:31 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Mpls-pm] Frozen Perl 2009 Sponsorship and Hackathon (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:14:37 -0500 From: Seth Viebrock To: mpls-pm-owner at pm.org Subject: Frozen Perl 2009 Sponsorship and Hackathon Can you send this out? --Seth Hello Perl Mongers, I'm helping to organize the hackathon for the 2009 Frozen Perl Conference this February and would love any suggestions or additional help any of you may be able to provide. Focused projects with delegable goals would be great, so if you (or someone you know) have a project in mind that you'd like to lead (or you'd like to see led) then please contact me and/or sign up at http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2009/wiki?node=Hackathon Also, with regards to soliciting corporate sponsorship, if any of you have any special contacts at the following companies, please let me know at seth at viebrock.us : Northwest, Oracle, Target, Visi, Shavlik, ActiveState, Red Hat, ActiveState, Red Hat, Cisco, Astra, Trapeze, 3M. Thank you! Seth Orion Viebrock Vistawave, LLC | The Hursk Group, LLC E: seth at vistawave.com | seth.viebrock at hursk.com Ph: 612.387.4302 PGP: 7D73 19AA 534B 5BDA 10A9 3170 0200 85C8 2263 535B Cal: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=3kc04jii8utnfaaouq305468e8%40group.calendar.google.com&src=4po28moe62360atltdtlb3tsto%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Chicago From danareed at mac.com Mon Oct 20 10:59:20 2008 From: danareed at mac.com (Dana Reed) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:59:20 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] hello Message-ID: <119090600812331669480575117948474358305-Webmail2@me.com> Hi, I just joined the mailing list after checking out the Frozen Perl 2009 web page. I am interested in attending the workshop, and I also noticed that you may be looking for sponsors...(3M contacts were mentioned in an archived message) Since I've just moved from the U of M to 3M, I thought I could look into having 3M be a sponsor of the conference (though I don't know how much pull a new employee would have) Also, as an introduction I work in the 3M Corporate Analytical Lab doing mass spectrometry. Currently I'm using Perl on Win32 to try and interface to a home-built instrument using a combination of software pipes, parallel and serial communications. I'm using ActivePerl 5.8.8 and the Win32::Pipe, Win32::GUI Win32::Process, Device::ParallelPort modules. My background in Perl before this, was mostly just messing around with using it to calculate and predict elemental compositions from the molecular weight. I spent most of my non-mass spectrometry time at the U using Filemaker Pro to build a lab management and kiosk system for the department of chemistry. Thanks, Dana From ian at indecorous.com Mon Oct 20 11:14:45 2008 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:14:45 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] hello In-Reply-To: <119090600812331669480575117948474358305-Webmail2@me.com> References: <119090600812331669480575117948474358305-Webmail2@me.com> Message-ID: <48FCCA95.8080907@indecorous.com> Dana Reed wrote: > Also, as an introduction I work in the 3M Corporate Analytical Lab > doing mass spectrometry. Currently I'm using Perl on Win32 to try > and interface to a home-built instrument using a combination of > software pipes, parallel and serial communications. What, you forsook FORTRAN? ;) > I'm using ActivePerl 5.8.8 and the Win32::Pipe, Win32::GUI, > Win32::Process, Device::ParallelPort modules. Have you looked at Strawberry Perl[0]? It's a build of Perl that works on Windows without all of ActiveState's PPM tomfoolery, etc. I haven't used it myself, but I do tend to chafe that the hoops I have to jump through to get the CPAN modules I want. I assume the Win32:: modules will Just Work with it too, but I can't say for sure. Not that ActivePerl is bad, per se, or that Strawberry Perl will make your life any better :) > My background in > Perl before this, was mostly just messing around with using it > to calculate and predict elemental compositions from the molecular > weight. I spent most of my non-mass spectrometry time at the U > using Filemaker Pro to build a lab management and kiosk system for > the department of chemistry. Well, as a fellow chemist[1] and Perlmonger, welcome! [0] [1] Although I never practiced chemistry professionally - I came to my senses before graduating ;)