From rjw at alembic.com Sat Mar 1 20:07:23 2008 From: rjw at alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:07:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] Summer of Code -- volunteers needed Message-ID: Volunteer pledge drive! TPF needs volunteers to make summer of code happen this year. It sounds like the administrators got stretched too thin in 2005 and 2006, and we really didn't have ourselves together in 2007. So, I'm proposing a departmental structure under a TPF umbrella, which will localize the cat-herding effects within various large projects (so far, parrot and Catalyst appear to be on board with this.) I would like to demonstrate that we have our act together this year, so we need to get a solid pool of administrative volunteers and mentors together before the 8th. Administrative needs: (Contact ewilhelm at cpan.org or join #soc on irc.perl.org.) * backup administrator (reduce the bus number) * Department heads for p5p, "modules", etc * Suggestions about department structure Mentors and project ideas needed: We need to get these pages populated before March 8th or it is quite likely to be a no-go. Potential mentors, please add yourselves and your project ideas here: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_mentors http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects If you hate wikis as much as I do, please visit this handy form and I will batch the wiki edits on your behalf. http://scratchcomputing.com/loveperlhatewiki.html Thanks, Eric -- We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. --Quarry worker's creed --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- -- From rjw at alembic.com Tue Mar 4 03:49:24 2008 From: rjw at alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 03:49:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] Introducing The Perl College Message-ID: What is the Perl College? The Perl College is a creative merger of job training and job fairs. Here are its primary goals: * Provide free top quality training to qualified junior level Perl developers * Improve their Perl skills to the intermediate level * Match the new graduates with Perl jobs in the hiring companies * http://perlhunter.com/college.html The Perl College was created to address these issues in recruiting Perl coders: * A shortage of intermediate level Perl developers * A surplus of junior level Perl developers * Some are not developing Perl full time * Many are looking for a career developing Perl but can't get needed training and experience * Companies lacking the resources to train Perl developers We are currently seeking both sponsors and students for this unique education/recruitment opportunity. Hiring Sponsors: Thirty great applicants - cheap! Imagine how much it would cost in both time and money to find and train a qualified applicant for your Perl jobs. The Perl College dramatically improves the efficiency of this process by pre-screening and accepting only the most motivated students. Then we take it one step further. We take those already highly motivated students and train them up to a solid intermediate level of Perl skills. Efficiency, cost effectiveness and quality results - what could be better for your Perl recruitment needs? Student Candidates: Put yourself ahead of the competition. If selected you will have a week of free training from Damian Conway (valued at $3000). Plus you will exposed to employers who are actively seeking intermediate level Perl developers. Competition to get in will be fierce so put your best foot forward. Don't wait to apply as we will take only the thirty most qualified students. For more information on The Perl College, and how to apply to be a sponsor or a student go to these pages: http://perlhunter.com/college.html http://perlhunter.com/sponsors.html http://perlhunter.com/students.html Thanks, Uri Guttman, Dean of The Perl College -- Uri Guttman ------ uri at stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Architecture, Development, Training, Support, Code Review ------ ----------- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ----- http://jobs.perl.org --------- --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- From rjw at alembic.com Tue Mar 18 11:27:22 2008 From: rjw at alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:27:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] Summer of Perl -- call for student proposals Message-ID: The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code(tm) and we have a lot of capable, willing mentors looking forward to working with some talented, driven students. So, we would like you to help find those students (and quickly -- the students must apply before March 24th.) This is a rare opportunity for students to get a chance to get a paid summer of hacking on exciting projects like Parrot, Perl 6, Moose, Jifty, SVK, Catalyst, or their very own Perl modules or applications. It also brings new talent into the community and gives the student a hefty "real world" experience with a knowledgable mentor. Further, employers love to see this sort of demonstration of teamwork, handling deadlines, communication skills, resourcefulness and etc. We're looking for promising students who are interested in open source (or maybe you know someone who *should* be interested in open source.) Knowledge of Perl is optional if the project is Parrot-related. The student doesn't need to be an expert in the problem domain (after all, learning is part of the process), but should bring a big pile of creativity, problem-solving skills, and determination. Students should review the page of suggested projects, but are encouraged to bring their own proposals (those are often the best.) The most important first step is getting in touch with the community and discussing their project idea with potential mentors. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects Additional information and links can be found here. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008 Google has posted some flyers if you happen to have a university bulletin board or hallway handy: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Additional info: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html (Note that google has particular requirements to do with the fact that they are paying the students. The student must be able to show their eligibility regarding enrollment and employability.) Remember, the Perl community draws talent from many fields, so if you came to Perl from a non-computer-science major and still have contacts in that department from your university, it is probably worth mentioning to them. Thanks, Eric From rjw at alembic.com Wed Mar 19 17:00:54 2008 From: rjw at alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:00:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] March meeting (well, field trip, really) Message-ID: as we discussed at the last meeting, the usual date for the BALUG meeting (in San Francisco) is is moved one week later and comes on the same date as our regular perl meeting. i proposed that we have a field trip as a group and attend the BALUG to hear Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu/Canonical and while not everyone could go several were interested in the field trip. since some perl members may have missed the meeting, this will let everyone know that we do plan the field trip and will have to leave Santa Rosa earlier than our regular meeting. we can also carpool and leave from Alembic at 5:30 PM and talk about perl on the road ;-). BALUG meets in the upstairs large conference room at the Four Seas restaurant at 731 Grant Street, and the Chinese meal costs $13.00. if you want to go on the field trip please let me know and i'll RSVP for us as a group, and then know who's on the way so we don't leave anyone behind (if you have a cell phone please send the # so we can contact you if we don't see you when we're ready to take off). -ron -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards From wgheath at gmail.com Wed Mar 19 17:19:55 2008 From: wgheath at gmail.com (William Heath) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:19:55 -0700 Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] March meeting (well, field trip, really) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I want to go, what day is this exactly? My phone is 530 354-3111 and my name is Tim. Thanks On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Ron Wickersham wrote: > as we discussed at the last meeting, the usual date for the BALUG > meeting (in San Francisco) is is moved one week later and comes on > the same date as our regular perl meeting. i proposed that we > have a field trip as a group and attend the BALUG to hear Mark > Shuttleworth of Ubuntu/Canonical and while not everyone could go > several were interested in the field trip. > > since some perl members may have missed the meeting, this will > let everyone know that we do plan the field trip and will have > to leave Santa Rosa earlier than our regular meeting. we can > also carpool and leave from Alembic at 5:30 PM and talk about > perl on the road ;-). > > BALUG meets in the upstairs large conference room at the Four Seas > restaurant at 731 Grant Street, and the Chinese meal costs $13.00. > > if you want to go on the field trip please let me know and i'll > RSVP for us as a group, and then know who's on the way so we don't > leave anyone behind (if you have a cell phone please send the # so > we can contact you if we don't see you when we're ready to take off). > > -ron > > -- > /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign > \ / No HTML/RTF in email > X No Word docs in email > / \ Respect for open standards > _______________________________________________ > Santa-rosa-pm mailing list > Santa-rosa-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/santa-rosa-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/santa-rosa-pm/attachments/20080319/7dd13709/attachment.html From rjw at alembic.com Wed Mar 19 19:13:31 2008 From: rjw at alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:13:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] March meeting (well, field trip, really) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, William Heath wrote: > I want to go, what day is this exactly? ---snip--- hi Tim, the date is 25th of Mar. 2008 (Tuesday) -ron -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards From rjw at alembic.com Tue Mar 25 11:44:59 2008 From: rjw at alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:44:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] March meeting (field trip) Message-ID: just a reminder that instead of our regular meeting we will have a field trip to the BALUG meeting in San Francisco. we will leave Alembic at 17:30 today. next month we'll return to our regular local perl meetings. -ron -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards From rjw at alembic.com Thu Mar 27 13:22:21 2008 From: rjw at alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:22:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Santa-rosa-pm] Summer of Code Students -- Last call Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:53:26 -0700 From: Eric Wilhelm To: PM Groups Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code Students -- Last call Hi all, Please forward to your local groups. Also, a poll: have you or your fellow mongers done anything (bonus points for interesting or creative) to get the word out? --- If you are a student or know a student who could be creating some awesome code with Perl or Parrot this summer, you need to act NOW. The application deadline is Monday, but if you haven't gone through a couple rounds of feedback by then you probably won't succeed. Applications sent at the last minute are unlikely to be accepted. If you know some students or professors, you should contact them about this today (not tomorrow.) http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects Thanks, Eric --