From naterajj at gmail.com Tue Jan 6 16:10:25 2015 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan J. Natera) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:10:25 -0800 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] Open Call for sponsors - Perl @ SCALE 13x Message-ID: Hello, Time is very valuable, and year after year, several folks have volunteered their time and good will to help promote Perl @ SCALE. In the years past, I have provided t-shirts to volunteers as a token of appreciation for donating their time in such a way. This year, I am requesting the help of the companies using Perl to provide those t-shirts and maybe a bit more. In exchange for your $100 donation, we will: 1) Include your company's logo in the back of the t-shirt as an sponsor. (I need high resolution monochromatic image AND an email authorizing me to use said logo for this *specific* purpose). Historically the cost of these t-shirts has been just short of $200 (including shipping), adding the sponsors logos will raise the cost a little bit. 2) We can have flyers advertising any open Perl Development positions your company might have. 3) Any money left over will be used to purchase, and give away Learning Perl or Modern Perl books to any SCALE attendees with a valid Student ID (while supplies last). Ideally, *all* companies using Perl in SoCal will step up. If your company is interested, or if you have any questions, please send me an email to naterajj at gmail.com This open call will close Monday, Jan 12th at 11:59PM. Thanks, Juan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcduffee at gmail.com Tue Jan 6 19:27:07 2015 From: mcduffee at gmail.com (David McDuffee) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:27:07 -0800 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] Perl Mongers at SCaLE 13x Message-ID: Dear Perl Mongers of Southern California, SCaLE 13x is the 13th annual Southern California Linux Expo ( http://socallinuxexpo.com ), which will be happening Friday, Saturday, and Sunday February 19-22 at the LAX Hilton. If you've attended a previous SCALE you already know what a worthwhile weekend it will be; if you haven't, check out this podcast from long-time Perl Monger Randal Schwartz for SCaLE 12x: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/279 As in the past, the So Cal Perl Mongers (Los Angeles, Orange County, Thousand Oaks, and San Diego) will be hosting a booth at the expo. If you can spare some time (4-5 hours) to represent Perl Mongers at the booth, please send a note to me ( mcduffee at gmail.com) to let me know. You don't have to be a Perl expert to volunteer, just be willing to talk about Perl with conference attendees, plus help set up or tear down the booth if your shift requires it. What do you get for volunteering? * A full conference pass at no cost! * A coveted "Exhibitor" badge! * An even more coveted Perl @ SCaLE t-shirt! * The chance to meet and chat with fellow Perl enthusiasts! Check out some of the talks you'll be eligible to attend at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/presentations, but remember that much of the value of SCaLE comes from the "conference in the halls" -- the chance to get to know other members of the community in a more relaxed informal setting than a typical meetup permits. I hope to see you this year at SCaLE! Thanks! David McDuffee P.S. Thanks to Juan Natera for organizing the Perl booth at past SCaLE conventions, and for his continuing advice and support this year! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 8633 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From merlyn at stonehenge.com Fri Jan 9 10:30:09 2015 From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:30:09 -0800 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] [LA.pm] Open Call for sponsors - Perl @ SCALE 13x In-Reply-To: (Juan J. Natera's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:10:25 -0800") References: Message-ID: <86k30vst72.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> >>>>> "Juan" == Juan J Natera writes: Juan> Hello, Time is very valuable, and year after year, several folks Juan> have volunteered their time and good will to help promote Perl @ Juan> SCALE. I'll be at SCALE again this year, although primarily in my role as the FLOSS Weekly producer. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig From naterajj at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 15:03:14 2015 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan J. Natera) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:03:14 -0800 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] Open Call for sponsors - Perl @ SCALE 13x In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, This is a reminder about the Open Call for sponsors, please help promote Perl at SCALE. Thanks, Juan Natera On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Juan J. Natera wrote: > > Hello, > > Time is very valuable, and year after year, several folks have volunteered > their time and good will to help promote Perl @ SCALE. In the years past, I > have provided t-shirts to volunteers as a token of appreciation for > donating their time in such a way. This year, I am requesting the help of > the companies using Perl to provide those t-shirts and maybe a bit more. > > In exchange for your $100 donation, we will: > > 1) Include your company's logo in the back of the t-shirt as an sponsor. > (I need high resolution monochromatic image AND an email authorizing me to > use said logo for this *specific* purpose). Historically the cost of these > t-shirts has been just short of $200 (including shipping), adding the > sponsors logos will raise the cost a little bit. > > 2) We can have flyers advertising any open Perl Development positions your > company might have. > > 3) Any money left over will be used to purchase, and give away Learning > Perl or Modern Perl books to any SCALE attendees with a valid Student ID > (while supplies last). > > Ideally, *all* companies using Perl in SoCal will step up. If your company > is interested, or if you have any questions, please send me an email to > naterajj at gmail.com > > This open call will close Monday, Jan 12th at 11:59PM. > > Thanks, > > Juan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pbowen at conversantmedia.com Tue Jan 13 09:05:25 2015 From: pbowen at conversantmedia.com (Peter Bowen) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:05:25 +0000 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] Combined Meeting... Message-ID: <716184BF245BAA44BD51DDC9E9D79421012F373890@SJ2-EXDB104.corp.valueclick.com> Mongers, First off, the vote... I got one vote for keeping them separate. There was also ONLY one reply. With that in mind, this month we're going to join the Code Craft guys (http://www.meetup.com/codecraftgroup/) on Wednesday, January 28th, at Conversant. Same place, different night. I'm excited to see the way that they are doing things, and maybe with a larger group, we'll be able to continue the great conversations that we've been having, but with a larger audience. The second order of business, after two years, the mongers lunch is being cancelled. The last quarter of last year, I was the only one that showed up. A number of people said that they would come to a lunch meeting, but we just didn't have the turnout that I had hoped for. I'll update the web site with both of the changes above. Now to a different note. I don't know if you saw the email from our friend David McDuffee, but Perl Mongers is putting together a booth @ SCALE (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x). He is looking for help, and in addition to getting the word out about Perl, he is throwing in a goodie bag of passes, a shirt, and more. If you want to help out, drop him a line - mcduffee at gmail.com. SCALE is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday February 19-22 at the LAX Hilton. I'm going to see what I can do to be there on Friday. Hopefully you can help out too. Finally, there is a pull movement afoot. It is being called the "2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge". There are a number of links that describe the challenge here: http://perlmaven.com/2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge. The gist of it is that each month you will get a module to look at and submit an improvement as a pull request. This project is a great way to get exposed to other engineering styles as well as be part of the open source scene. I'm planning to participate, and I encourage you to as well. As always let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I'll see you on the 28th -Peter PETER BOWEN Manager, Software Engineering Work 818-575-4599 30699 Russell Ranch Rd., Suite 250, Westlake Village, CA 91362 conversantmedia.com [Conversant_Logo_Tagline_email] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Schedule: 7:00pm Chill out, eat, drink, network, suggest topics and organize workshops 7:15pm Break out sessions, hacking & workshops 8:15pm Lightning Talks 9:00pm Maybe go home Food & drinks (water/beer) are provided http://www.meetup.com/codecraftgroup/events/212305932/ http://codecraftgroup.us Come on out for some food, networking, and discussion! -Peter PETER BOWEN Manager, Software Engineering Work 818-575-4599 30699 Russell Ranch Rd., Suite 250, Westlake Village, CA 91362 conversantmedia.com [Conversant_Logo_Tagline_email] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 8633 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: