From jarich at perltraining.com.au  Sun Feb  5 19:00:39 2006
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:00:39 +1100
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Calling people who know anything about Perl 6
Message-ID: <43E6BBD7.3020302@perltraining.com.au>

G'day everyone,

PerlNet ( http://perl.net.au/ ) has a weekly collaboration to write or improve
articles about all things Perl.  Previous successful collaborations have covered:

	Catalyst     - http://perl.net.au/wiki/Catalyst
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This week's collaboration is about Perl 6 - http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6

If you have anything you'd like to share on this topic, please feel free to add
it.  If you have ideas on what should be covered, please add them to the
discussion page: http://perl.net.au/wiki/Talk:Perl_6

Let's make this page a really good reference on Perl 6!

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	Jacinta

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From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Feb  7 14:54:26 2006
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:54:26 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program,
	January 27]
Message-ID: <1139352866.16075.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Sorry, this one's been sitting in my intray for over a week, so some of
the competitions or offers may have expired.

Cheer
Grant

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
> Subject: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, January 27
>
> ================================================================
> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> January 27, 2006
> ================================================================
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Book News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Podcasting Pocket Guide
> -Learn to Program
> -Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction
> -C# Cookbook, Second Edition
> -Baseball Hacks
> -Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
> -Learning Windows Server 2003, Second Edition
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Upcoming Events
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Digital Photography Fundamentals Workshop with Stephen Johnson,
>  Pacifica, CA--January 28-29, 2006
> -II Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre, 
>  Malaga, Spain--February 15-17
> -Derrick Story at NCMUG, Rohnert Park, CA--February 21
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Conference News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Upcoming 2006 O'Reilly conferences
> -MySQL Registration is Open
> -ETech Registration is Open
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------
> -Early Access to Cutting-Edge Technology
> -What Are Syndication Feeds?
> -Hacking Online Applications for Location Awareness
> -PHP Easter Egg
> -Simplify PHP Development with WASP
> -Running Commercial Linux Software on FreeBSD 
> -Putting Google Video onto Your iPod
> -Adding a New Style Preferences Window to Your App, Part 1
> -Using the Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators in Visual Studio 2005
> -An Inside Look at IPSec in Vista
> -What's Your Link Reputation?
> -Building a Web Community with Bribes
> -Head First's Cover Model Contest
> -Using Lucene to Search Java Source Code 
> -Spring: Integrating iBATIS
> -O'Reilly's New Podcasting Site
> -Connect the Video iPod to TV
> -Jack Herrington Interviews Founder of Fake Science
> -MAKE Contest on Digg
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> From Your Peers
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ***Photos from Macworld
> 
> ================================================
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> 	
> 
> ***II Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre, 
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> 
> ***Derrick Story at NCMUG, Rohnert Park, CA--February 21
> Author Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition,"
> "iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual," and "Digital Photography Hacks") presents
> "Dumb DigiPhoto Tricks" to the North Coast Mac Users Group. There are so
> many serious things to do with you Mac that sometimes we forget to play.
> Join Derrick as he shows you how to entertain yourself (and friends)
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> <http://www.ncmug.org/events.html#Feb2006>
> 
> ================================================
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> ---------------------
> ***PHP Easter Egg
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> 
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> Where are the all-in-one PHP frameworks that make building well-factored
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> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2006/01/19/wasp_intro.html>
> 
> 
> ***Running Commercial Linux Software on FreeBSD 
> One intriguing feature of the BSDs is their ability to run binaries for
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> 
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***Putting Google Video onto Your iPod 
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> 
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> 
> ---------------------
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> ---------------------
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> <http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/01/24/windows-mobile5-emulators-in-visual-studio-2005.html>
> 
> 
> ***An Inside Look at IPSec in Vista 
> IPSec management tools are not particularly intuitive in XP. But things
> are going to be better in Vista. Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows
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> 
> ---------------------
> Web
> ---------------------
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> Forget Pagerank: as Gord explains, this measure no longer allows us to
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> <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/whats-your-link-reputation>
> 
> 
> ***Building a Web Community with Bribes
> Building a community on the Web is one of the hardest things to do.
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> the process.
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> 
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
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> JavaRanch is hosting a contest to choose a cover model for the next Head
> First book ("Head First Objects"), due out this Spring. Examine seven
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> 
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> Renuka Sindhgatta argues that this would be a boon for finding reusable
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> <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/01/18/using-lucene-to-search-java-source.html>
> 
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> 
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> 
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> friends and family.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/01/16/connect-the-video-ipod-to-tv.html>
> 
> 
> ***Jack Herrington Interviews Founder of Fake Science
> James Polanco, founder of Fake Science, chats with Jack about his
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> news, reviews, and to showcase favorite artists. James reveals his gear
> setup for recording and editing the show.
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> 
> ---------------------
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> 
> ================================================
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> ================================================
> ***Photos from Macworld
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> talk at the O'Reilly Booth!)
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From grant at mclean.net.nz  Wed Feb  8 19:10:41 2006
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:10:41 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Speaker list for Monday's meeting
Message-ID: <1139454641.1850.31.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Mongers

My list of lightning talks for Monday night currently looks like this:

  Michael Robinson  Corporate firewalls and POE
  Grant McLean      What is a 'scalar'?
  Leslie Walker     My first MySQL/PHP project
  Sam Vilain        How type theorists saved the Perl6 project
  Geoff Cant        Introducing Erlang
  Andrew McMillan   Whereami
  Grant McLean      Perl traps

As you can see, there's plenty of room for people to step forward and
fill another slot.

Speakers: if you're planning to use slides, please get the files to me
by 5pm on Monday so I can get them loaded onto the presentation PC.

Cheers
Grant


From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sun Feb 12 13:32:50 2006
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:32:50 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Reminder: Meeting tonight
Message-ID: <1139779970.15995.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Mongers

Wellington Perl Mongers are meeting tonight.  Usual venue and time:

  http://wellington.pm.org/

It's a lightning talk meeting and the following talks are planned.

 - Michael Robinson: Dealing with Stupid Corporate Firewalls using POE
 - Grant McLean: What's a Scalar?
 - Leslie Walker: My first MySQL/PHP project
 - Sam Vilain: How Type Theorists Saved the Perl 6 Project
 - Geoff Cant: Introducing Erlang
 - Finlay Thompson: A Maintenance Coder's Nightmare
 - Andrew McMillan: Whereami?
 - Grant McLean: Perl traps
 - Finlay Thompson: CPAN Date/Time Modules

If you want to beat the last minute rush, get your talk registration
into me by return email :-)

Cheers
Grant


From grant at mclean.net.nz  Mon Feb 13 12:01:13 2006
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:01:13 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting
Message-ID: <1139860873.1655.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Mongers

Thank you every one, particularly the speakers, for a successful meeting
last night.  If you want to get a glimpse of the final slides from some
of the presentations, they're up on the web site now:

  http://wellington.pm.org/archive/

Some people expressed an interest in the talk timer application - a Perl
script (obviously) with a Gtk GUI.  Its inner workings are covered in
detail in this article:

  http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/GladeXML/Tutorial

The next meeting with be on Monday March 13th.  If anyone would like to
volunteer to speak, or suggest a topic then please speak up.

Cheers
Grant




From srdjan at catalyst.net.nz  Sun Feb 26 12:22:34 2006
From: srdjan at catalyst.net.nz (Srdjan)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:22:34 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
Message-ID: <44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>

Dear fellow mongers,

Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
Sorry for troubling you.

Cheers,
Srdjan

From ewen at naos.co.nz  Sun Feb 26 12:48:31 2006
From: ewen at naos.co.nz (Ewen McNeill)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:48:31 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: Message from Srdjan <srdjan@catalyst.net.nz> of "Mon,
	27 Feb 2006 09:22:34 +1300." <44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz> 
Message-ID: <20060226204831.50866869FA7@wat.la.naos.co.nz>

In message <44020E0A.6000904 at catalyst.net.nz>, Srdjan writes:
>Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
>if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 

I too have conflicting events on Monday these days, so have to choose
between PM and the other event each month.  The original rationale for
Monday (to match with the Wellylug meetings) doesn't seem to work out
quite as well as originally planned, as the PM meetings typically run
over the start of the Wellylug meetings.

Tuesday or Wednesday would suit me better, but I'll probably still be
along occasionally if it stays on Monday.

Ewen

From pspam at paradise.net.nz  Sun Feb 26 13:14:34 2006
From: pspam at paradise.net.nz (Peter C. Kelly)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:14:34 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
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Srdjan wrote:

>Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
>if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
>Sorry for troubling you.
>  
>
My only other regular event is also on the second Monday of each month,
so Tuesdays or Wednesdays would suit me much better too.

Peter


From finlay at catalyst.net.nz  Sun Feb 26 13:15:28 2006
From: finlay at catalyst.net.nz (Finlay Thompson)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:15:28 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44021A3A.7040105@paradise.net.nz>
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Tuesday is good for me, but then so was monday, so I guess I dont really 
care ....

Peter C. Kelly wrote:

>Srdjan wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
>>if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
>>Sorry for troubling you.
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>My only other regular event is also on the second Monday of each month,
>so Tuesdays or Wednesdays would suit me much better too.
>
>Peter
>
>_______________________________________________
>Wellington-pm mailing list
>Wellington-pm at pm.org
>http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm
>
>  
>


From michael at diaspora.gen.nz  Sun Feb 26 13:16:14 2006
From: michael at diaspora.gen.nz (michael@diaspora.gen.nz)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:16:14 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:48:31 +1300."
	<20060226204831.50866869FA7@wat.la.naos.co.nz> 
Message-ID: <E1FDTFW-0000V7-00@israel.diaspora.gen.nz>

>Tuesday or Wednesday would suit me better, but I'll probably still be
>along occasionally if it stays on Monday.

I have no friends or other events to go to :), so any day of the week
is fine by me.
    -- michael.

From andrew.boag at catalyst.net.nz  Sun Feb 26 13:21:53 2006
From: andrew.boag at catalyst.net.nz (Andrew Boag)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:21:53 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44021A3A.7040105@paradise.net.nz>
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Monday's don't work very well for me either. Tue or Wed better.

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 10:14 +1300, Peter C. Kelly wrote:
> Srdjan wrote:
> 
> >Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
> >if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
> >Sorry for troubling you.
> >  
> >
> My only other regular event is also on the second Monday of each month,
> so Tuesdays or Wednesdays would suit me much better too.
> 
> Peter
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Wellington-pm mailing list
> Wellington-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm
> 


From LRW at clear.net.nz  Sun Feb 26 13:27:56 2006
From: LRW at clear.net.nz (Lesley Walker)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:27:56 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
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On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 09:22 +1300, Srdjan wrote:
> Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
> if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
> Sorry for troubling you.

Tuesdays could be a bit problematical for me, but it's something I can
work around if it comes up.

Wednesdays: I have the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays free so either of those
would work for me.


Lesley W



From grant at mclean.net.nz  Sun Feb 26 13:54:44 2006
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:54:44 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program,
	February 24]
Message-ID: <1140990884.8383.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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From Peter.Love at netkno.com  Mon Feb 27 14:36:40 2006
From: Peter.Love at netkno.com (Peter Love)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:36:40 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
	<44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
Message-ID: <44037EF8.7030207@netkno.com>


Monday isn't good for me either, and I have to rush off at 7:30 when I 
can make it.  Tuesday or Wednesday would be better for me.

From geoff at catalyst.net.nz  Mon Feb 27 18:14:01 2006
From: geoff at catalyst.net.nz (Geoff Cant)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:14:01 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44037EF8.7030207@netkno.com>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
	<44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz> <44037EF8.7030207@netkno.com>
Message-ID: <9D79D889-1361-46AB-8026-272CE39A1637@catalyst.net.nz>

I'm busy on Tuesday nights from 5 till 8pm, so if we could avoid that  
it'd be helpful to me.

Any time the rest of the week except friday nights (which I'm  
guessing noone wants anyway) sounds good to me.

Cheers,
--Geoff Cant (Catalyst IT)

From sam at vilain.net  Tue Feb 28 12:43:08 2006
From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:43:08 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
	<44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
Message-ID: <4404B5DC.4080304@vilain.net>

Srdjan wrote:
> Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
> if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
> Sorry for troubling you.

Tuesday and Thursdays are out for me.

Sam.

From grant at mclean.net.nz  Tue Feb 28 13:21:02 2006
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:21:02 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
	<44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
Message-ID: <1141161662.30942.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 09:22 +1300, Srdjan wrote:
> Dear fellow mongers,
> 
> Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
> if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
> Sorry for troubling you.

Arggghhh! Damn you people and your social commitments! :-)

I don't have a problem with moving the meeting to another night.
Tuesday and perhaps Thursday would be fine, but Wednesday is out for me.
Moving it to later in the evening also wouldn't really work for me.

The big problem is that two people who have said they can't do Tuesday
are both people who have presented talks more than once at previous
meetings.  If we were casting votes, I'd be giving past presenters at
least five votes.

Comparing the promise of one talk from Srdjan versus no more from Geoff
or Sam does not leave me in a happy place.

How many people do we have lurking out there who would like to present
at future meetings but can't do Mondays?

Cheers
Grant


From sam at vilain.net  Tue Feb 28 13:32:56 2006
From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:32:56 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <1141161662.30942.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>	<44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
	<1141161662.30942.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <4404C188.3000500@vilain.net>

Grant McLean wrote:
> The big problem is that two people who have said they can't do Tuesday
> are both people who have presented talks more than once at previous
> meetings.  If we were casting votes, I'd be giving past presenters at
> least five votes.

But don't you hold veto power anyway?  ;)

> Comparing the promise of one talk from Srdjan versus no more from Geoff
> or Sam does not leave me in a happy place.

I'd still show up, I'd just be missing out on a singongtaichi.com class 
to do so.

> How many people do we have lurking out there who would like to present
> at future meetings but can't do Mondays?
> 
> Cheers
> Grant
> 
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From andrew.boag at catalyst.net.nz  Tue Feb 28 13:52:08 2006
From: andrew.boag at catalyst.net.nz (Andrew Boag)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:52:08 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <4404C188.3000500@vilain.net>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
	<44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>
	<1141161662.30942.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	<4404C188.3000500@vilain.net>
Message-ID: <1141163528.31513.18.camel@192.168.2.18>

> I'd still show up, I'd just be missing out on a singongtaichi.com class 
> to do so.

Does this mean that perl Mongers changing their day could trigger a
similar song and dance with the singongtaichi.com group?

This could be the beginning of a domino affect ...

> > _______________________________________________
> > Wellington-pm mailing list
> > Wellington-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm
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From newslists at electronincantation.net.nz  Tue Feb 28 19:26:30 2006
From: newslists at electronincantation.net.nz (David Murray)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:26:30 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] A humble request
In-Reply-To: <4404B5DC.4080304@vilain.net>
References: <1097536099.10857.1.camel@localhost>
	<44020E0A.6000904@catalyst.net.nz>  <4404B5DC.4080304@vilain.net>
Message-ID: <1141183590.10896.17.camel@james.home>

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:43 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Srdjan wrote:
> > Monday is unfortunately no go for me any more. Would it be a bother for anyone 
> > if we moved the meeting day to Tuesday? In return I will come up with a talk. 
> > Sorry for troubling you.
> 
> Tuesday and Thursdays are out for me.

It suits me to have both PerlMongers and WellyLUG on the same night in
the same building.

Thursdays don't suite me at all, and Tuesdays... I'd rather keep that
night clear for Bell-Ringing.

Yeah - I've not presented anything, and so I know - only one vote from
me for keeping it on Mondays. :o)

The PerlMonger meetings have always been interesting and informative;
and I've learnt plenty of stuff from going along and just listening. I
currently know next to nothing about Perl, but that will change. :o)


Cheers

David Murray

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