From fred at redhotpenguin.com Wed Apr 1 00:09:35 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:09:35 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> Message-ID: New PDX conference. If we are going to do an SF workshop we'll need to be doing stuff like this. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reid Beels Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:46 PM Subject: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge To: fred at redhotpenguin.com Hi Fred, I'm one of the organizers of Open Source Bridge, a new open source developers? conference being held June 17?19, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. We?re aiming to connect people across projects, languages and experience and would love to have members of the SF Perl community involved as speakers and participants. Details about the conference are included below. Bridge isn?t a typical conference. It?s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and focused on similarities between projects, not differences. Plus, we?ll be running a 24-hour hacker lounge for code sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, starting new projects or just mingling. We?d be delighted it if you could mention Open Source Bridge at your user group meetings, post this email to your mailing list, and get us in touch with others in your community interested in participating. We just extended our call for proposals through April 10th, which is fast approaching, so please pass this information on as soon as possible. We don?t expect something for nothing, so we?re giving all of your user group members a discounted registration rate of $150. That?s $25 off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular registration. User groups are very important to the chairs of our conference ? that?s how they both got started in the open source community. We?re also offering a free conference pass to give away to a member of your group. If you?re interested in more ways to promote the conference, let us know! Thank You! Reid Beels Open Source Bridge reid at opensourcebridge.org http://opensourcebridge.org/ CONFERENCE PASS RAFFLE INFORMATION: You get one free conference pass to raffle off to a member of your group! We?ve found the most successful raffles tend to follow these conditions: 1) Let all of your members know about the conference, dates, and URL: http://opensourcebridge.org/ 2) Allow anyone in the group to sign up for the raffle. 3) Draw the winner at random, preferably at a public meeting. When you have selected a winner, email usergroups at opensourcebridge.org, CC the winner, and we?ll register them for you. DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP?S MEMBERS: Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events. Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference. Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You?ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology. We're still seeking proposals ? and just extended the deadline to April 10th ? so submit yours before time runs out. Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed ?for the cloud?; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what?s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/) In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated ?hacker lounge? at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night. The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a thriving technical community, a love of all things open source and offers many attractions for visiting geeks, including Powell?s technical books, dozens of local brewpubs, and large greenspaces like Forest Park?all accessible by mass transit. Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend. Thanks! PS: Interested in taking advantage of the user group discount code that will allow user group members to register for $150? Enter ?osb4228? when you register to receive the discount. From rdm at cfcl.com Wed Apr 1 00:58:25 2009 From: rdm at cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:58:25 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> Message-ID: At 00:09 -0700 4/1/09, Fred Moyer wrote: > If we are going to do an SF workshop we'll need > to be doing stuff like this. Speaking of things to consider doing, you might want to find out if you can get a sponsor to pay for videotaping the sessions. I have spent many enjoyable and worthwhile hours watching videos; here are a couple of my favorites, which aren't nearly as Rubyish as they might appear: http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/writing-code-that-doesnt-suck.html http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/what-all-rubyist-should-know-about-threads.html -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm at cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development From sphink at gmail.com Wed Apr 1 14:52:18 2009 From: sphink at gmail.com (Steve Fink) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:52:18 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Thinking about psuedo-randomness In-Reply-To: <200903312038.n2VKccON061672@kzsu.stanford.edu> References: <49CFE6D1.70105@agliodbs.com> <200903292246.n2TMkfLR009518@kzsu.stanford.edu> <75cbfa570903302027j30373a01q1d676f2632f67e86@mail.gmail.com> <200903312038.n2VKccON061672@kzsu.stanford.edu> Message-ID: <7d7f2e8c0904011452r4bb0985fhe4183c72ec4f7a07@mail.gmail.com> I've always wanted (and have implemented, once) this sort of esthetic randomness in the context of games, where the specific values of the random numbers are not what needs to feel right/fair. It's the continuous as opposed to discrete case, I suppose. The sort of thing I'm talking about is where I just paid 45000 gold pieces for this supposedly awesome Jagged Glass Sculpture of Angry Broccoli +5, which happens to have a high variance in the damage it deals. I'm totally fine with it occasionally dealing out puny amounts of damage, but if the first four times I use it, it just happens to do no better than my previous Limp Spaghetti Whip +0, then I'm going to get pissed off and dump it in the trash heap and burn down the shop I bought it from. Especially if I have to recharge it in the Glass Vegetable Steamer after every four uses. So I'd like it to pull from a distribution with memory -- sometimes even as extreme as coming up with the total damage dealt in advance, and partitioning the eventual total over the number of uses it allows before shattering into glassy bits. (That's one way to be perfectly "fair", using one definition of fair.) Nothing really to add; mostly just an example of where I've encountered something similar. From josh at agliodbs.com Wed Apr 1 16:29:44 2009 From: josh at agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:29:44 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> Message-ID: <49D3F8E8.2030509@agliodbs.com> On 4/1/09 12:09 AM, Fred Moyer wrote: > New PDX conference. If we are going to do an SF workshop we'll need > to be doing stuff like this. What about taking on CodeCon and expanding it next year? I was thinking of doing that anyway, since OpenSourceWorld looks likely to be a 2009-only phenominon. Actually, *if* the SF Perlmongers could get together a full day of talks, I might be able to get us a Community Day at OSW. --Josh Berkus From quinn at fairpath.com Wed Apr 1 18:12:36 2009 From: quinn at fairpath.com (Quinn Weaver) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:12:36 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Speaking of CodeCon... Message-ID: <67E6FE28-DE05-4E96-9850-5E1267C3C3A9@fairpath.com> Today is the last day to register for $75. Starting April 2, the rate goes up to $82.50 online (or $90 at the door). __ Quinn Weaver Consulting, LLC Full-stack web development http://fairpath.com/ 510-520-5217 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CodeCon is a language-agnostic forum for presenting cutting-edge technology concepts; it's not a language users' conference. It's much more TED than YAPC. Not saying CodeCon isn't awesome, or YAPC isn't awesome--I love both. Just saying CodeCon's focus might not mesh well with SFPUG's plans. __ Quinn Weaver Consulting, LLC Full-stack web development http://fairpath.com/ 510-520-5217 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From josh at agliodbs.com Thu Apr 2 10:29:25 2009 From: josh at agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:29:25 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> <49D3F8E8.2030509@agliodbs.com> Message-ID: <49D4F5F5.3080802@agliodbs.com> Quinn, > Have you talked to the CodeCon organizers about this? My guess is they'd > welcome the extra help with the conference-as-it-stands, but they're not > interested in expanding into Perl territory. Not since they reorganized. However, my impression was that they were desparate for committed help and would consider anything which came with organized bodies behind it. That may be mistaken, though. --Josh From doom at kzsu.stanford.edu Thu Apr 2 12:55:33 2009 From: doom at kzsu.stanford.edu (Joe Brenner) Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:55:33 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: <49D4F5F5.3080802@agliodbs.com> References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> <49D3F8E8.2030509@agliodbs.com> <49D4F5F5.3080802@agliodbs.com> Message-ID: <200904021955.n32JtX1J096845@kzsu.stanford.edu> Josh Berkus wrote: > > Have you talked to the CodeCon organizers about this? My guess is they'd > > welcome the extra help with the conference-as-it-stands, but they're not > > interested in expanding into Perl territory. > > Not since they reorganized. However, my impression was that they were > desparate for committed help and would consider anything which came with > organized bodies behind it. That may be mistaken, though. If what you're interested in is perl advocacy, rather than preaching to to converted, then getting involved with a more general project like this (and gently nudging them toward more perl coverage) is clearly the right move. 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SEND AN E-MAIL If this sounds interesting, email us at jobs at HumanCreativity.com and say "hi". Learn more at www.HumanCreativity.com Together we will shake up the world in wonderful ways! -Julian From fred at redhotpenguin.com Fri Apr 3 11:56:41 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:56:41 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Rich Morin wrote: > At 00:09 -0700 4/1/09, Fred Moyer wrote: >> If we are going to do an SF workshop we'll need >> to be doing stuff like this. > > Speaking of things to consider doing, you might want to find out > if you can get a sponsor to pay for videotaping the sessions. It's in my queue, but my sf.pm tuits have been full lately with the meetings and streamlining some processes :) Regarding the aspirations of doing a workshop/conference/day of talks, we would really need someone to step up and take the lead there. List member, are you that person? So far we've had a number of list members helping run the list. Joe Brenner, Co-Chair Speakers. Finds us great speakers Matt Lanier, Founder. Provides space and occasional soft drinks and plasticware for dinner Kevin Frost, Webmaster. Working on an update for the website. Robert Krimen, Toolsmith. Working on some internal tools for the group. Julian Cash, Vice-President, Games. In charge of entertainment. Fred Moyer, President. Everything else. We can grow and take on more responsibilities, but need more bodies to step up. > > I have spent many enjoyable and worthwhile hours watching videos; > here are a couple of my favorites, which aren't nearly as Rubyish > as they might appear: > > http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/writing-code-that-doesnt-suck.html > > http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/what-all-rubyist-should-know-about-threads.html > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm ? ? ? ? ? ?Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume ? ? rdm at cfcl.com > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog ? ? +1 650-873-7841 > > Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > From not.com at gmail.com Fri Apr 3 12:20:55 2009 From: not.com at gmail.com (yary) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:20:55 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> Message-ID: <75cbfa570904031220p6dfec594y5cd0ea37506edfb0@mail.gmail.com> I'll bring a video-capable camera and a mic to the next meeting, and post the results. From not.com at gmail.com Fri Apr 3 12:24:06 2009 From: not.com at gmail.com (yary) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:24:06 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: <75cbfa570904031220p6dfec594y5cd0ea37506edfb0@mail.gmail.com> References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> <75cbfa570904031220p6dfec594y5cd0ea37506edfb0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <75cbfa570904031224o55a181b8rc191bfdc328e70e1@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM, yary wrote: > I'll bring a video-capable camera and a mic to the next meeting, and > post the results. > I meant, I'll try making a video of the next meeting (as we don't have a pro and I can try to do something that's better than nothing), not a video of proposed talks at a conference, that we should but may or may not be doing. From fred at redhotpenguin.com Tue Apr 7 09:31:16 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:31:16 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: [pm_groups] YAPC::EU::2009 Call for Presentations In-Reply-To: <4895a0700904070022u7c8e0830tfc5ca0b112faf56@mail.gmail.com> References: <4895a0700904070022u7c8e0830tfc5ca0b112faf56@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jos? Castro Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:22 AM Subject: [pm_groups] YAPC::EU::2009 Call for Presentations To: PM Groups Hi, everyone. Please forward this to your pm groups. YAPC::EU::2009, the 10th edition of the largest European Perl conference, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 3rd to the 5th of August, 2009. This is the official Call for Presentations and here are the important deadlines: ?- Deadline for talk proposals: April 30th 2009 ?- Speaker notification: May 7th 2009 This year's theme for the conference is Corporate Perl. Here's what we're looking for: ?- We're looking for talks on how corporate companies use Perl and why; ?- We're looking for talks to fit our beginner's track (if you want to submit one and don't know what about, reach us at organizers at yapceurope2009.org and we'll share with you our preliminary draft of an expected beginner's track); ?- And, as usual, there is also enough room for talks that don't fit any of those groups, so we'll be looking for and expecting dozens of proposal on everything that is Perl related. We'll be offering two kinds of time-slots for talks: ?- 20 minutes ?- 40 minutes If you really need a different time-slot, get in touch with us and we'll see what we can do. Speakers may submit multiple talks. All speakers will have their registration fee waived. ?- To submit a talk, go to http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/newtalk ?- If you don't have a user yet, please register at http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/register For any inquiry, contact us at organizers at yapceurope2009.org, and don't forget to submit your proposals no later than midnight GMT on April 30th, 2009. -- Jos? Castro -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups From josh at agliodbs.com Thu Apr 9 12:59:47 2009 From: josh at agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:59:47 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: SF perlmongers + Open Source Bridge In-Reply-To: <75cbfa570904031224o55a181b8rc191bfdc328e70e1@mail.gmail.com> References: <429BA0C6-AE73-48AF-92BA-4A0285C640A1@opensourcebridge.org> <75cbfa570904031220p6dfec594y5cd0ea37506edfb0@mail.gmail.com> <75cbfa570904031224o55a181b8rc191bfdc328e70e1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <49DE53B3.6010403@agliodbs.com> Fred, The other SFPUG has a couple guys who are really good at streaming video. Christophe, Dirk, any advice for SF Perlmongers? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com From rdm at cfcl.com Mon Apr 13 10:17:18 2009 From: rdm at cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:17:18 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Parrot talk, BALUG, 4/21 (SF, CA, USA) Message-ID: In case anyone is interested, Allison Randal will be talking about Parrot at BALUG on the 21st - http://www.balug.org -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm at cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development From bob.goolsby at gmail.com Mon Apr 13 10:23:46 2009 From: bob.goolsby at gmail.com (Bob goolsby) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:23:46 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Parrot talk, BALUG, 4/21 (SF, CA, USA) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1a208dd0904131023m3bae756br56307e8a44bbf682@mail.gmail.com> I am among the interested, but I have a scheduling conflict -- everybody who is doing anything interesting is doing it on Tuesdays. Sigh. B On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Rich Morin wrote: > In case anyone is interested, Allison Randal will be talking > about Parrot at BALUG on the 21st - http://www.balug.org > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm ? ? ? ? ? ?Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume ? ? rdm at cfcl.com > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog ? ? +1 650-873-7841 > > Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > From doom at kzsu.stanford.edu Tue Apr 14 10:01:18 2009 From: doom at kzsu.stanford.edu (Joe Brenner) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:01:18 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] CodeCon (was Re: Parrot talk, BALUG, 4/21 (SF, CA, USA)) In-Reply-To: <1a208dd0904131023m3bae756br56307e8a44bbf682@mail.gmail.com> References: <1a208dd0904131023m3bae756br56307e8a44bbf682@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200904141701.n3EH1IbP069115@kzsu.stanford.edu> Bob goolsby wrote: > Rich Morin wrote: > > In case anyone is interested, Allison Randal will be talking > > about Parrot at BALUG on the 21st - http://www.balug.org > I am among the interested, but I have a scheduling conflict -- > everybody who is doing anything interesting is doing it on Tuesdays. > Sigh. I know the feeling. If I ever organize another geek event it's going to take place on first prime Wednesdays. But hearing Allison Randal talk about Parrot is definitely recommended. You may get some insight into the register-based vs. stack-based VM issue (I have a feeling that Parrot may turn out to be a bigger deal than Perl 6). Also, CodeCon (which is coming up this weekend) has announced a schedule: http://www.advogato.org/article/1007.html Looks like a lot of interesting stuff, though nothing particularly perl-related this time (but then, whose fault is that, eh?). From fred at redhotpenguin.com Tue Apr 14 10:35:37 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:35:37 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Reminder - meeting April 28 Message-ID: David Lowe, an early SF.pm member, will give a talk on horrible uses for pack() and unpack(). "We do lots of horrible things with pack and unpack at work, some of which I think are pretty interesting and surprising. I'll probably start with a crash course in basic pack/unpack usage and its normal use cases, as well, but spend most of the time talking about surprising use cases." Please RSVP at the meetup site! http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl-Mongers/calendar/10043180/ http://sf.pm.org/weblog/ From quinn at fairpath.com Tue Apr 14 16:15:03 2009 From: quinn at fairpath.com (Quinn Weaver) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:15:03 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] CodeCon (was Re: Parrot talk, BALUG, 4/21 (SF, CA, USA)) In-Reply-To: <200904141701.n3EH1IbP069115@kzsu.stanford.edu> References: <1a208dd0904131023m3bae756br56307e8a44bbf682@mail.gmail.com> <200904141701.n3EH1IbP069115@kzsu.stanford.edu> Message-ID: <20090414231503.GA21992@mtn> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:01:18AM -0700, Joe Brenner wrote: > > Bob goolsby wrote: > > Rich Morin wrote: > > > > In case anyone is interested, Allison Randal will be talking > > > about Parrot at BALUG on the 21st - http://www.balug.org FWIW, I plan to attend. I hope I'll see some of you there. > > I am among the interested, but I have a scheduling conflict -- > > everybody who is doing anything interesting is doing it on Tuesdays. > > Sigh. > > I know the feeling. If I ever organize another geek event it's going to > take place on first prime Wednesdays. Yes! I think Wednesdays are still a good day to colonize. > Also, CodeCon (which is coming up this weekend) has announced a schedule: > > http://www.advogato.org/article/1007.html > > Looks like a lot of interesting stuff, though nothing particularly > perl-related this time (but then, whose fault is that, eh?). Yeah, as you imply, definitely ours. Many CodeCon presenters are in the Python camp, but the organizers seem to be impartial--as long as you have an innovative idea, they don't care what language you use to implement it. One of the best CodeCon talks ever was by Meredith Patterson, on a VB(!) codebase (not her choice) that let people purchase custom oligonucleotides. In my memory, the only two Perl-related presentations have been 1) my talk on an experimental IVR system (Perl talking to Asterisk) and 2) Dan Kaminsky's talk on tunneling out of firewalls via DNS lookups (part Perl, part C). In Dan's talk, he joked, "Yes, this part is a horrible hack, but, hey, that's what Perl is for" (paraphrased). It's too bad this idea has become so self-perpetuating. -- Quinn Weaver Consulting, LLC Full-stack web development http://fairpath.com/ 510-520-5217 From fred at redhotpenguin.com Thu Apr 23 13:15:48 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:15:48 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: [pm_groups] Perl Instructors and Trainers: YAPC|10 wants your courses! In-Reply-To: <49EFCB44.6070307@robertblackwell.com> References: <49EFCB44.6070307@robertblackwell.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Blackwell Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:58 PM Subject: [pm_groups] Perl Instructors and Trainers: YAPC|10 wants your courses! To: pm_groups at pm.org http://yapc10.org/yn2009/news/376 For YAPC|10, we are hoping to offer attendees a wide selection of pre- and post-YAPC courses and training opportunities. To that end, we invite all qualified Perl trainers and instructors to respond to our Call for Courses. If you're a trainer or instructor, take a look because it's a sweet deal. In short, we'll take care of registration, food, and facilities ? at cost ? so you can focus on delivering great courses and training to your students. Once you have a talk ready to go, submit your course and you should hear back from an organizer within 72 hours. Not a professional speaker, but still looking to give a talk during YAPC? No problem, there's still time. Our regular call for talk proposals is still open. Love, The YAPC|10 Planning Committee -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups From fred at redhotpenguin.com Thu Apr 23 17:25:41 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:25:41 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Meeting reminder Message-ID: Next Tuesday, April 28th, "Half a dozen horrible uses for pack() and unpack()" I'll be bringing new book release samples from O'Reilly. http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl-Mongers/calendar/10043180/ From fred at redhotpenguin.com Fri Apr 24 11:38:59 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:38:59 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: [john@cposc.org: CPOSC 2009 - Call for Participation] In-Reply-To: <20090424110106.GI31253@mawode.com> References: <20090424110106.GI31253@mawode.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Walt Mankowski Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:01 AM Subject: [john at cposc.org: CPOSC 2009 - Call for Participation] To: phl at lists.pm.org FYI... ----- Forwarded message from John Mulligan ----- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:03:41 -0400 From: John Mulligan To: waltman at pobox.com Subject: CPOSC 2009 - Call for Participation Hi Walt, Just wanted to let the Philly Perl Mongers know that we'll be running another Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) this year! CPOSC is a small, low-cost, one-day conference about all things Open Source. This year it will be on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Harrisburg. The Call for Participation is now open and we are looking for speakers. ?If you or someone you know would be interested in speaking, please encourage them to send in a talk proposal. Details about the conference can be found at http://cposc.org and instructions for submitting a talk proposal are here: ?http://www.cposc.org/speakers/speaker-faq Hopefully we'll see you in October! Thanks, John -- John P. Mulligan Central PA Open Source Conference http://www.cposc.org ----- End forwarded message ----- - **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX ** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo at lists.pm.org** From fred at redhotpenguin.com Tue Apr 28 10:33:54 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:33:54 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Reminder - meeting tonight Message-ID: Please RSVP if you haven't already. We have a large turnout expected, so I plan to order a lot of food. Please bring $5-10 to help cover the food cost if you can. http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl-Mongers/calendar/10043180/ From fred at redhotpenguin.com Wed Apr 29 11:00:15 2009 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:00:15 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Fwd: [cogurov@gmail.com: [Conferences] YAPC::EU::2009 Call for Presentations] In-Reply-To: <20090429173952.GA8219@mawode.com> References: <20090429173952.GA8219@mawode.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Walt Mankowski Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM Subject: [cogurov at gmail.com: [Conferences] YAPC::EU::2009 Call for Presentations] To: phl at lists.pm.org Sorry I'm a little late in forwarding this, but better late than never. ?There's still one more day if you want to submit a talk proposal. Walt ----- Forwarded message from Jos? Castro ----- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:21:41 +0100 From: Jos? Castro To: Discussion about YAPC conferences Subject: [Conferences] YAPC::EU::2009 Call for Presentations YAPC::EU::2009, the 10th edition of the largest European Perl conference, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 3rd to the 5th of August, 2009. This is the official Call for Presentations and here are the important deadlines: ?- Deadline for talk proposals: April 30th 2009 ?- Speaker notification: May 7th 2009 This year's theme for the conference is Corporate Perl. Here's what we're looking for: ?- We're looking for talks on how corporate companies use Perl and why; ?- We're looking for talks to fit our beginner's track (if you want to submit one and don't know what about, reach us at organizers at yapceurope2009.org and we'll share with you our preliminary draft of an expected beginner's track); ?- And, as usual, there is also enough room for talks that don't fit any of those groups, so we'll be looking for and expecting dozens of proposal on everything that is Perl related. We'll be offering two kinds of time-slots for talks: ?- 20 minutes ?- 40 minutes If you really need a different time-slot, get in touch with us and we'll see what we can do. Speakers may submit multiple talks. All speakers will have their registration fee waived. ?- To submit a talk, go to http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/newtalk ?- If you don't have a user yet, please register at http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/register For any inquiry, contact us at organizers at yapceurope2009.org, and don't forget to submit your proposals no later than midnight GMT on April 30th, 2009. -- Jos? 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