[Van-pm] January van.pm meeting details

[Helen Cook]

Here are the details.  Please note, this is Thursday, not Wednesday.


When: Thursday January 26, 2006  7:00pm  

Where: ActiveState/Sophos, 580 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC

Speakers and Topics: 

Will Whittaker: Multilingual support in Catalyst 

   Will Whittaker has helped to organize CanSecWest since 2000.  He designed
   and authored the security conference's registration system, which handles 
   multiple languages and currencies.  Will spoke at Perl Conference 4.0 and 
   at YAPC::EU in 2003 through 2005.


Gurusamy Sarathy: "What we learned using Perl to develop PureMessage"

   Sarathy has been heavily involved in maintaining the mainstream releases 
   of Perl for the past seven years. He served as the Release Manager for 
   the 5.005 and 5.6 releases of Perl.

   Sarathy conceived and implemented the original PureMessage product. He is
   currently responsible for the overall technical success of PureMessage, 
   and the mentorship of key development skills at Sophos Vancouver.