From glim at mycybernet.net  Tue May 10 20:18:00 2005
From: glim at mycybernet.net (Gerard Lim)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:18 -0400
Subject: [Van-pm] Yet Another Perl Conference final details
Message-ID: <mailman.75.1115782570.8742.vancouver-pm@pm.org>

Hi everyone...

There have been some recent developments on the YAPC::NA front,
and it has been suggested to us that a reminder might be helpful
to some people, so here's a quick summary of the event.

Summary
-------

    YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America)
    in Toronto, Canada, Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29, June 2005

    Home page:  http://yapc.org/America/

    Conference Location:  http://89chestnut.com/
                          A facility of the University of Toronto

Accommodations
--------------
Normally registration information would come first, but
accommodations are the bottleneck -- our main group reservation
(at the conference hotel) expires at the end of the week, and as
the conference approaches it will be extremely difficult to find
a hotel anywhere in the city.

Info on how to book at:

    http://yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml


Registration
------------

Register now! :-)  We are on track to break attendance records
at YAPC::NA this year, and we could even sell out before the
conference starts.  The price for the full 3 days is USD$85.
We keep it insanely low through many generous sponsorships
and the all-volunteer organizational and speaking crews.

Registration info: http://yapc.org/America/register-2005.shtml

Direct registration link:

http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423


Conference Speaking Schedule
----------------------------

We've got an excellent selection of talks and speakers for Perl
programmers of all levels, beginner through expert.  We are
fortunate enough to have presentations coming from some of the
most recognizable names in Perl programming today, including
Larry Wall, Chip Salzenberg, Dan Sugalski, Autrijus Tang and
brian d foy.

Summary -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/summary.html

Day 1   -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day1.html
Day 2   -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day2.html
Day 3   -- http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day3.html


Lightning Talks
---------------
These short (5 minutes each) talks, presented by the conference
attendees, are a YAPC tradition.  If you're interested please
read more about them and sign up:

    http://www.justanotherperlhacker.org/lightning/

[ This message was sent by Gerard Lim <glim at mycybernet.net> on
  behalf of the YAPC::NA 2005 Conference organizing committee
  of the Toronto Perl Mongers.  Thanks for your patience and
  support. ]


From hvc at cpan.org  Wed May 18 18:11:28 2005
From: hvc at cpan.org (Helen Cook)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:11:28 -0700
Subject: [Van-pm] June meeting
Message-ID: <20050519011128.GH21276@soundwave.net>

Hello,

Ok, time to plan a meeting for early June.  

Would you be more inclined to come out for a lecture style presentation
to learn something rather than to a more social sort of get-together?  

Maybe you just want to show off your latest project.  Who wants to give
a talk?  Let's have a bunch of speakers, each with 15-20 minutes to
present their projects, hacks, obsessions, peeves.  We're not going for
lightning talk rapidity here, nor the pressure of giving a full length
presentation.  Tell us why you did what you did, what you would have
done differently, what worked particularly elegantly, you know, why it's
cool.  This could also be a useful way to get feedback on a project
that's in progress, or to practice a talk (Dorian?).  Simple stuff is
fine, and probably better than overly elaborate, complicated things..
though they also have their charm.  

Some examples:
    
  My favourite way to do i/o with Perl
  How I made two formerly incompatible things talk to each other
  Perl's place between open source statistics and graphing packages
  Regex engine hacks (Will?)
  ...
  
Any takers?
  
--h

From hvc at cpan.org  Mon May 23 20:02:27 2005
From: hvc at cpan.org (Helen Cook)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 20:02:27 -0700
Subject: [Van-pm] June meeting
In-Reply-To: <20050519021845.GD14239@mailchannels.com>
References: <20050519011128.GH21276@soundwave.net>
	<20050519021845.GD14239@mailchannels.com>
Message-ID: <20050524030227.GB6694@soundwave.net>

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:18:45PM -0700, Ken Simpson wrote:
> I'm in for presenting on our bits. Apache::SMTP or our Apache
> throttler filter.

Awesome, either would be amusing.  I'll talk about some tricks I've
learned recently about using Perl with open source packages like R and
Weka for doing statistical analysis of data.

To avoid Brunix, since I think there is some crossover between the
groups, let's say Tuesday June 14th.  We can probably use ActiveState's
space; I'll get it set up.

--h

From hvc at cpan.org  Sat May 28 15:29:35 2005
From: hvc at cpan.org (Helen Cook)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 15:29:35 -0700
Subject: [Van-pm] June meeting
In-Reply-To: <20050526185141.GB28421@mailchannels.com>
References: <20050519011128.GH21276@soundwave.net>
	<20050519021845.GD14239@mailchannels.com>
	<20050524030227.GB6694@soundwave.net>
	<20050526185141.GB28421@mailchannels.com>
Message-ID: <20050528222935.GB3059@soundwave.net>

Hm, thought I sent this out earlier, but apparently not. 

We have space and a projector at ActiveState/Sophos Tuesday, June 14th
at 7:30.

So far Ken and myself are going to speak; Philippe has expressed some
interest too.  There's probably time for about 1 more presentation on
top of those 3.. don't want to drag it out too late since it'll be a
nice night and therefore necessary to go for beers afterwards.  :)

--h


From hvc at cpan.org  Sat May 28 15:39:33 2005
From: hvc at cpan.org (Helen Cook)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 15:39:33 -0700
Subject: [Van-pm] Regular meeting date
In-Reply-To: <20050526212316.GQ5745@activestate.com>
References: <20050526212316.GQ5745@activestate.com>
Message-ID: <20050528223933.GC3059@soundwave.net>

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:23:16PM -0700, Luke Closs wrote:
> I'm a perl developer here at Sophos, and I'm excited about the perl
> mongers starting up again.

Excellent!  I'm glad there is excitement, I really want to get this
going again regularly.

> Unfortunately, Tuesday is juggling night for the Vancouver Juggle
> club, so myself and a few other perl hackers/jugglers won't be able to
> make it.  

Certainly it can be moved; I picked the date mostly at random.  The
constraints I was working with were Vanlug (third monday of the month),
Brunix (second wednesday) php group (second thursday), and also YAPC::NA
which is at the end of June.

Either the first or last week of the month does a reasonable job of
distributing these events uniformly.  Monday, wed, thurs?

How does the last Monday of the month starting in July work for everyone
else?

--h

From davidl at ActiveState.com  Tue May 31 13:50:24 2005
From: davidl at ActiveState.com (David Labatte)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:50:24 -0700
Subject: [Van-pm] Regular meeting date
In-Reply-To: <20050528223933.GC3059@soundwave.net>
References: <20050526212316.GQ5745@activestate.com>
	<20050528223933.GC3059@soundwave.net>
Message-ID: <1117572624.30401.399.camel@tang.ActiveState.com>

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 15:39 -0700, Helen Cook wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:23:16PM -0700, Luke Closs wrote:
> > I'm a perl developer here at Sophos, and I'm excited about the perl
> > mongers starting up again.
> 
Well if Luke thinks it's awesome I'll delurk to express my +1 :)

> Excellent!  I'm glad there is excitement, I really want to get this
> going again regularly.
> 
> > Unfortunately, Tuesday is juggling night for the Vancouver Juggle
> > club, so myself and a few other perl hackers/jugglers won't be able to
> > make it.  
> 
> Certainly it can be moved; I picked the date mostly at random.  The
> constraints I was working with were Vanlug (third monday of the month),
> Brunix (second wednesday) php group (second thursday), and also YAPC::NA
> which is at the end of June.
> 

I share this concern about Tuesdays also.  

> Either the first or last week of the month does a reasonable job of
> distributing these events uniformly.  Monday, wed, thurs?

+1 for Mon. But I'm not picky since I share Luke's excitement about the
rebirth of van-pm and will be doing my best to spread the Awesomeness of
it my fellow Sophos perl developers (if Luke doesn't beat me to it!).

> 
> How does the last Monday of the month starting in July work for everyone
> else?
> 
I'm there along with whoever I can drag with me, oh and see you on the
14th too :)

Cheers,
  Davidl
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