From jkeen at verizon.net Tue Jul 19 08:28:53 2011 From: jkeen at verizon.net (James E Keenan) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:28:53 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] In town for FOSSCON Message-ID: <4E25A2B5.9030005@verizon.net> PHL friends, Among the Perl types who will be attending FOSSCON from out-of-town are myself, Patrick Michaud, Rob Blackwell and Parrot GSOCer Kevin Polulak. The conference only runs on Saturday, but I have a lot of time to kill on Sunday before I have to leave town, and I suspect that may apply to at least one other out-of-towner as well. So if there's anyone who wants to meet up on Sunday either for brunch or for hacking/discussion, please let me know. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan From darian at criticode.com Tue Jul 19 08:36:41 2011 From: darian at criticode.com (Darian Patrick) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:36:41 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] In town for FOSSCON In-Reply-To: <4E25A2B5.9030005@verizon.net> Message-ID: <19ec0ddc-cfd0-40c9-a678-abe8414aa119@mail-5.01.com> ----- Original Message ----- > PHL friends, > > Among the Perl types who will be attending FOSSCON from out-of-town > are > myself, Patrick Michaud, Rob Blackwell and Parrot GSOCer Kevin > Polulak. > > So if there's anyone who wants to meet up on Sunday either for brunch > or > for hacking/discussion, please let me know. Hi James, I wish I could hang but I'll be heading out to PDX for OSCON that day. However, I can make some brunch suggestions if you need them. Best, Darian From jonathand at fossevents.org Wed Jul 20 12:48:39 2011 From: jonathand at fossevents.org (Jonathan Simpson) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:48:39 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] In town for FOSSCON In-Reply-To: <4E25A2B5.9030005@verizon.net> References: <4E25A2B5.9030005@verizon.net> Message-ID: <4E273117.8060408@fossevents.org> (meant to post this to the list days ago, but didn't realize "reply" only went to sender) Howdy from the fosscon team. Basekamp (the venue hosting fosscon) will be available Sunday midday and afternoon for some informal stuff, talks, chats, whatever. I'll be around, and some others will as well, so if you want to take part feel free. Additionally, hive76, a local hackerspace, is moving their open house to Sunday afternoon. On 7/19/2011 11:28 AM, James E Keenan wrote: > PHL friends, > > Among the Perl types who will be attending FOSSCON from > out-of-town are myself, Patrick Michaud, Rob Blackwell and > Parrot GSOCer Kevin Polulak. > > The conference only runs on Saturday, but I have a lot of > time to kill on Sunday before I have to leave town, and I > suspect that may apply to at least one other out-of-towner > as well. > > So if there's anyone who wants to meet up on Sunday either > for brunch or for hacking/discussion, please let me know. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Wed Jul 27 19:55:38 2011 From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:55:38 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] August meeting plans? Message-ID: I would like to have a meeting this August as we have done for most months so far this year. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to make it due to a long series of interviews I'm doing for a possible job in NYC. That brings up another point: should I take this position, I'll be relocating to NYC. This somewhat limits my ability to attend phl.pm meetings. Can anyone step up and help make sure things happen? I'd hate to see the group die after I leave. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren From waltman at pobox.com Wed Jul 27 20:15:46 2011 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:15:46 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] August meeting plans? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110728031546.GA25984@mawode.com> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:55:38PM -0400, Chris Nehren wrote: > I would like to have a meeting this August as we have done for most > months so far this year. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to > make it due to a long series of interviews I'm doing for a possible > job in NYC. > > That brings up another point: should I take this position, I'll be > relocating to NYC. This somewhat limits my ability to attend phl.pm > meetings. Can anyone step up and help make sure things happen? I'd > hate to see the group die after I leave. If no one has anything to present, maybe we could just meet for beers and food and talk there about going forward. I'd suggest Nodding Head, since they have good beer, they're close to Suburban Station, and I'm boring. I'm open to other suggestions. Someone of you might have heard that a) the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is coming up [1] and b) I'm going to be doing a talk on demystifying pack and unpack. I know next to nothing about pack and unpack, so I'm hoping to use this opportunity to educate myself. I also don't know quite what I'll be talking about, so I'd really like the chance to do a practice talk before I head out to Pittsburgh. The September meeting would be great for that. Unfortunately the first Monday of September is Labor Day, so we'll have to pick another day. Walt 1. http://pghpw.org/ppw2011/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: From darian at criticode.com Thu Jul 28 11:49:56 2011 From: darian at criticode.com (Darian Anthony Patrick) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:49:56 -0700 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] August meeting plans? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E31AF54.70103@criticode.com> On 07/27/2011 07:55 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: > I would like to have a meeting this August as we have done for most months so far this year. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to make it due to a long series of interviews I'm doing for a possible job in NYC. We have the room on August 1. I can work the door on this day, and I will also request six more months of space from SEAS. I can definitely continue facilitating space. > That brings up another point: should I take this position, I'll be relocating to NYC. This somewhat limits my ability to attend phl.pm meetings. Can anyone step up and help make sure things happen? I'd hate to see the group die after I leave. If the job is a good fit for you, take it. Don't let Phl.pm be a huge concern that holds you back. You've done well by us. You revived the group. That's great and important work. But, moving your career forward in a direct way is also important. -- Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC Office: (215) 789-9956 Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 XMPP/SMTP: darian at criticode.com Web: http://criticode.com ================================================= BCF1 E7AD 15AD 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 ================================================= From waltman at pobox.com Fri Jul 29 08:53:49 2011 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:53:49 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] August meeting plans? In-Reply-To: <4E31AF54.70103@criticode.com> References: <4E31AF54.70103@criticode.com> Message-ID: <20110729155349.GB3226@mawode.com> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:49:56AM -0700, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: > We have the room on August 1. I can work the door on this day, and I > will also request six more months of space from SEAS. I can definitely > continue facilitating space. Thanks, that's good to know. If we don't have anything to present, I suppose we could do an hour of Q&A and then go get something to eat in the neighborhood. Or we could just meet at a restaurant. Any thoughts either way? Walt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: From mjg at phoenixtrap.com Fri Jul 29 10:10:50 2011 From: mjg at phoenixtrap.com (Mark Gardner) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:10:50 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] August meeting plans? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: > I would like to have a meeting this August as we have done for most months so far this year. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to make it due to a long series of interviews I'm doing for a possible job in NYC. > > That brings up another point: should I take this position, I'll be relocating to NYC. This somewhat limits my ability to attend phl.pm meetings. Can anyone step up and help make sure things happen? I'd hate to see the group die after I leave. I'm sorry I can't make it - will be on vacation down the shore all week. But I think I mentioned at the last gathering that I'm interested in helping with coordination and announcements. -- Mark Gardner $ From rsindlin at gmail.com Fri Jul 29 10:27:05 2011 From: rsindlin at gmail.com (Randall Sindlinger) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:27:05 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] August meeting plans? In-Reply-To: <20110729155349.GB3226@mawode.com> References: <4E31AF54.70103@criticode.com> <20110729155349.GB3226@mawode.com> Message-ID: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Thanks, that's good to know. If we don't have anything to present, I > suppose we could do an hour of Q&A and then go get something to eat in > the neighborhood. Or we could just meet at a restaurant. > > Any thoughts either way? > > Walt > > I was definitely planning on attending. I think keeping it a bit more "official" and convening for a bit, if only for Q & A, would be worthwhile. It's great that Darian can keep the space for us, but I'd still consider it a "use it or lose it" situation. There are plenty of folks that will just commandeer space if no one seems to be using it :-) On another note, I am definitely interested in keeping this group alive; I've changed jobs, and no longer work for Penn, but my new position involves a lot of perl scripting, now on unix *and* windows. As such, PerlMongers has become more relevant to me than PLUG (Philly Linux User's Group). Phl.pm and PLUG compete with each other slightly in that they are both evening meetings the 1st week of the month; when push comes to shove, I'll be choosing to make room for phl.pm over PLUG. -Randall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I did what I could to avoid clashes with other events happening in the city. You'd be surprised how much is going on! That said, if people can find a better date that doesn't present any conflicts, groups have been known[1] to change their schedules in the past. I did my research by looking at technicallyphilly's events page[2] and finding dates with no/few conflicts. Shockingly, Monday was mostly empty at the time. Looking presently, the weekend seems to be mostly empty, but the issue there is that people tend to already have plans (e.g. I do a bunch of tabletop RPGs on the weekend). So keep that sort of thing in mind when looking for a reschedule. [1] http://london.pm.org/about/faq.html#heretics [2] http://technicallyphilly.com/events -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren From waltman at pobox.com Sun Jul 31 19:53:00 2011 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:53:00 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] August Meeting: August 1, 7 PM, Nodding Head In-Reply-To: References: <4E31AF54.70103@criticode.com> <20110729155349.GB3226@mawode.com> Message-ID: <20110801025300.GG3226@mawode.com> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:27:05PM -0400, Randall Sindlinger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > > > > Thanks, that's good to know. If we don't have anything to present, I > > suppose we could do an hour of Q&A and then go get something to eat in > > the neighborhood. Or we could just meet at a restaurant. > > > > Any thoughts either way? > > > > Walt > > > I was definitely planning on attending. I think keeping it a bit > more "official" and convening for a bit, if only for Q & A, would be > worthwhile. It's great that Darian can keep the space for us, but > I'd still consider it a "use it or lose it" situation. There are > plenty of folks that will just commandeer space if no one seems to > be using it :-) Well, we've had one vote for having the meeting anyway, and one vote (off-list) for Nodding Head. Since no one else seems to care, and since it's easier for me to get home from Nodding Head, I'm going to use my executive (or former executive) fiat and say that we're going to meet at Nodding Head Brewpub at 7 PM. Nodding Head is at 1516 Sansom St. According to their website they've got their Berliner Weisse on tap, which is another reason we should go there! > On another note, I am definitely interested in keeping this group > alive; I've changed jobs, and no longer work for Penn, but my new > position involves a lot of perl scripting, now on unix *and* > windows. As such, PerlMongers has become more relevant to me than > PLUG (Philly Linux User's Group). Phl.pm and PLUG compete with each > other slightly in that they are both evening meetings the 1st week > of the month; when push comes to shove, I'll be choosing to make > room for phl.pm over PLUG. I'd like to keep the group alive, too. But the problem we've had in the past is getting people to give talks. I'm not as good an arm-twister as Chris is, and that, as much as anything, is why the group devolved into just getting together for beers 3 or 4 times a year. The first Monday of the month isn't great timing for me, but I'm not sure what would be better. One problem is that we lose July and September for holidays. We'll also lose January 2012 for New Years. Walt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: