From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Fri Apr 3 13:27:14 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:27:14 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] REMINDER: Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm Message-ID: Hi all, Thanks to all who made it to the last meeting. The turnout was great and I believe everyone had an informative and enjoyable evening. Next we have our "Tools" topic night. NB: We're at a different venue this time, the details are below. Thanks muchly to Alex Krohn and the guys at Gossamer for use of their space. I must also ask people to remember that the meeting is at 7pm and that late arrivals can be very distracting to speakers. Can we please try to arrive as close to 7pm as possible (thanks). There are 3 talks lined up: * Luke Closs - "Introduction Git" ? NB: Luke requests that people bring their laptops with git installed * Jerome Pimmel - "Behaviour Driven Development with EasyB" EasyB leverages Groovy with a simple readable DSL for writing BDD style tests. * Kevin Jones - "Introduction to Shindig" We also have several lightning talks lined up: * Andy Gibbs - "Pipeline Processing with Perl" * Michael Nachbaur - "Test::A8N for human-readable system tests" * Michael Nachbaur - "Using Git post-update hooks for live site deployments" * Scott McWhirter - "What is a lightning talk?" If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all, please feel free to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you. !!! DIFFERENT VENUE !!! Gossamer Threads have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is located on the west side of Granville St close to the intersection with West Pender St on the 5th Floor of 455 Granville St. (Google map: http://xrl.us/bekhbb) After-meeting drinks: The Jolly Tax Payer Pub @ 828 West Hastings Street. I personally haven't been, so i can't describe exactly where it is. Hopefully someone will fill in the details. Background on speakers: Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings for Selenium RC. Kevin - Local Vancouver perl hacker. Kevin works with Luke and several of the other Vancouver.pm members at Socialtext. Jerome Pimmel - Jerome is a consultant & developer who is passionate about development as a craft and employs test-driven strategies to make quick forward momentum possible when building apps. His background is that of Java developer, now branching into Groovy/Grails. Other details: YAPC::NA It turns out that quite a few van.pm-ers are going to be attending the conference this year. If anyone else wishes to come along and travel as a group we'd be more than happy to share arrangements. Current details are on the wiki at http://xrl.us/bemtkc The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/ or available through http://vancouver.pm.org I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Tue Apr 7 13:33:42 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:33:42 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] REMINDER: Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, 2 days to go until the next meeting on thursday! --------------------- Thanks to all who made it to the last meeting. The turnout was great and I believe everyone had an informative and enjoyable evening. Next we have our "Tools" topic night. NB: We're at a different venue this time, the details are below. Thanks muchly to Alex Krohn and the guys at Gossamer for use of their space. I must also ask people to remember that the meeting is at 7pm and that late arrivals can be very distracting to speakers. Can we please try to arrive as close to 7pm as possible (thanks). There are 3 talks lined up: * Luke Closs - "Introduction Git" ? NB: Luke requests that people bring their laptops with git installed * Jerome Pimmel - "Behaviour Driven Development with EasyB" ?EasyB leverages Groovy with a simple readable DSL for writing BDD style tests. * Kevin Jones - "Introduction to Shindig" We also have several lightning talks lined up: * Andy Gibbs - "Pipeline Processing with Perl" * Michael Nachbaur - "Test::A8N for human-readable system tests" * Michael Nachbaur - "Using Git post-update hooks for live site deployments" * Scott McWhirter - "What is a lightning talk?" If anyone feels like doing a lightning talk about any topic at all, please feel free to add yourself to the lineup on the wiki or drop me an email and I'll add you. !!! DIFFERENT VENUE !!! Gossamer Threads have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office is located on the west side of Granville St close to the intersection with West Pender St on the 5th Floor of 455 Granville St. (Google map: http://xrl.us/bekhbb) After-meeting drinks: The Jolly Tax Payer Pub @ 828 West Hastings Street. I personally haven't been, so i can't describe exactly where it is. Hopefully someone will fill in the details. Background on speakers: Luke - Local Vancouver perl hacker and juggler at large. Luke develops software for wiki group Socialtext and is active with groups such as Vancouver hackspace, FreeGeek and is the maintainer for the perl bindings for Selenium RC. Kevin - Local Vancouver perl hacker. Kevin works with Luke and several of the other Vancouver.pm members at Socialtext. Jerome Pimmel - Jerome is a consultant & developer who is passionate about development as a craft and employs test-driven strategies to make quick forward momentum possible when building apps. His background is that of Java developer, now branching into Groovy/Grails. Other details: YAPC::NA It turns out that quite a few van.pm-ers are going to be attending the conference this year. If anyone else wishes to come along and travel as a group we'd be more than happy to share arrangements. Current details are on the wiki at http://xrl.us/bemtkc The Vancouver.pm wiki is available at http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/ or available through http://vancouver.pm.org I have also set up a LinkedIn Vancouver Perl Mongers group available here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1756057 thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From alex at gossamer-threads.com Tue Apr 7 13:38:44 2009 From: alex at gossamer-threads.com (Alex Krohn) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:38:44 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] REMINDER: Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090407133727.7698.80590B96@gossamer-threads.com> Hi, > !!! DIFFERENT VENUE !!! > > Gossamer Threads have graciously offered space for our meeting. Their office > is located on the west side of Granville St close to the intersection with West > Pender St on the 5th Floor of 455 Granville St. > (Google map: http://xrl.us/bekhbb) Just to reiterate, and in case anyone came to the last meeting at our old office, we have moved! New address is 5th floor, 455 Granville St. Don't go to the old space. =) Cheers, Alex -- Alex Krohn From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Wed Apr 8 11:03:15 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:03:15 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] REMINDER: Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Scott McWhirter wrote: > After-meeting drinks: > > The Jolly Tax Payer Pub @ 828 West Hastings Street. I personally haven't > been, so i can't describe exactly where it is. Hopefully someone will > fill in the > details. Hi All, it appears that the Jolly Tax Payer has been closed for quite a while so another venue is needed. I'll suggest http://www.kingstontaphouse.com/ but it's totally open for discussion as to where to go. Where do you suggest? thanks! -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Wed Apr 8 14:13:27 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:13:27 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Van.pm Retrospective Message-ID: Hi all, We've had a few meetings now and we have our next meeting coming up, so I was hoping to gather some feedback on what people think of how the group is going: Is there anything anyone would change? Is there anything we're doing that we should do more of? Is there anything people think we are missing? Am I doing a good job of keeping people informed and up to date? I'm hoping to gain this feedback so that I can start to use it when I'm planning meetings and events. thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From tech at tool.de Thu Apr 9 04:40:46 2009 From: tech at tool.de (Andreas Hernitscheck) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:40:46 +0200 Subject: [Van-pm] Van.pm Retrospective In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49DDDEBE.9050102@tool.de> Scott McWhirter schrieb: > Hi all, > > We've had a few meetings now and we have our next meeting coming up, > so I was hoping to gather some feedback on what people think of how > the group is going: > > Is there anything anyone would change? > Is there anything we're doing that we should do more of? > Is there anything people think we are missing? > Am I doing a good job of keeping people informed and up to date? > Hi all, an interesting idea would be to records the speeches to video. Of course this is an effort, maybe there is a quick and simple way to do it. If you consider it, the talking person should use a microphone. Maybe it would be a thing to use youtube/google-video for hosting it. Today one is going to talk about GIT, what I am really interested in, but I can not join (I am in Europe). Of course a standardised way of submitting for all PMs could be fancy. >Is there anything anyone would change? IMHO this 5 minutes talks should not be truncated to exact 5 minutes. Does not really help someone to save 2 minutes, especially if an information is missing. - just my opinion. But in general a timerange should be followed. have a nice meeting! "cat /dev/mycamera | resizeandtune | rm-infamous-words | tee mycopy.avi | uploadit.pl --title 'watch me'" From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:51:24 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:51:24 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] IRC Message-ID: Howdy all, I've started an IRC channel for the group: irc.perl.org #van.pm Feel free to drop by and say hello. thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- From lukecloss at gmail.com Thu Apr 9 16:18:13 2009 From: lukecloss at gmail.com (Luke Closs) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:18:13 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] REMINDER: Tech Meeting, 9th April 2009 @ Gossamer Threads, 7pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I was just looking at http://vancal.org/, and I noticed this event: http://vancal.org/events/95 - Vancouver Web Designers Meetup They are meeting from 7pm - 9pm at Subeez. Maybe we could stop by there en-masse after our session. Cheers, Luke On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Scott McWhirter wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Scott McWhirter > wrote: >> After-meeting drinks: >> >> The Jolly Tax Payer Pub @ 828 West Hastings Street. I personally haven't >> been, so i can't describe exactly where it is. Hopefully someone will >> fill in the >> details. > > Hi All, > > it appears that the Jolly Tax Payer has been closed for quite a while > so another venue is needed. > > I'll suggest http://www.kingstontaphouse.com/ but it's totally open > for discussion as to where to go. > > Where do you suggest? > > thanks! > > > -- > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi- > _______________________________________________ > Vancouver-pm mailing list > Vancouver-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/vancouver-pm > From lukecloss at gmail.com Tue Apr 21 22:06:32 2009 From: lukecloss at gmail.com (Luke Closs) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:06:32 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] We Are Iron Man Message-ID: You all need to read this: http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/iron-man/ I've started a perl blog here: http://tinyurl.com/perlnecklaces Luke From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Mon Apr 27 12:27:56 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:27:56 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Request for volunteer Message-ID: Hi all, I have need for a volunteer to help with meeting organization around July and August. Please drop me a line if you're able to help out. thanks! -- -Scott McWhirter- | -Technology Consultant- [ Cloudtone Studios - http://www.cloudtone.ca ] From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Mon Apr 27 12:47:01 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:47:01 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Next meeting CALL FOR SPEAKERS Message-ID: Hi all, I currently have 2 speakers lined up for next month including myself. I also have had several people offer to do lightning talks. I still have space for a full talk or two of about 20 minutes, so if anyone has anything they would like to talk about or would like to practice a talk before the conference season, please drop the list an email and I'll chalk you up. I've also set up a page on the wiki where people can suggest topics to cover during our meetings. If I can't find anyone local who can cover it, I'll attempt to get people to come in from out of town. http://www.socialtext.net/vanpm/index.cgi?suggested_meeting_topics Thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -Technology Consultant- [ Cloudtone Studios - http://www.cloudtone.ca ] From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Mon Apr 27 17:07:51 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:07:51 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Fwd: Servers for sale Message-ID: Hi all, Ken sent this but it got bounced by mailman. ta! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From:?Ken Simpson To:?vancouver-pm at pm.org Date:?Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:34:53 -0700 Subject:?Servers for sale Hi Everyone, We recently moved all of our hosting "into the cloud" and thus have a number of servers available for purchase. I'm willing to accept any reasonable offer and can take payment by credit card, cash, or cheque. Here's what we have: 1 SunFire X2100 with Dual Opteron CPUs ($800 on eBay) 1 Dell PowerEdge 2850 w/ 2 Atlas 146GB 10K SCSI drives ($500 on eBay) 1 Dell PowerEdge 1850 w/ 2 Atlas 72GB 10K SCSI drives ($250?) 2 Older, generic 2U rack-mount servers (without rack kits), one with 2x 36GB RAID SCSI drives, and one with just a single SATA drive ($500?) Looks like about $2K worth of stuff - enough for us to buy a fully automated espresso machine, which is far more useful. If you're interested, please make me an offer - as I said, any reasonable offer will be accepted. I just really want to convert these to cash but don't have the time to fiddle with eBay for hours. Regards, Ken -- Ken Simpson CEO MailChannels - Reliable Email Delivery http://mailchannels.com 604 685 7488 tel From scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk Mon Apr 27 17:20:53 2009 From: scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk (Scott McWhirter) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:20:53 -0700 Subject: [Van-pm] Speaker Sponsorship Message-ID: Hi All, I have a speaker who is willing to come to town and do a detailed Catalyst talk. However they would need to have their accommodation covered for a night or two while they are here. The speaker is a well known member of the Catalyst community and sponsorship would help bring a great speaker into town on a topic that has been heavily requested by the community. If mongers could talk to their employers and see if they would be interested in injecting new knowledge into the local perl community, please let me know. Thanks, -- -Scott McWhirter- | -Technology Consultant- [ Cloudtone Studios - http://www.cloudtone.ca ]