From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Oct 3 14:02:49 2006 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:02:49 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday (+ new books) Message-ID: <1159909369.1838.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is Tuesday October 10th: http://wellington.pm.org/ We have two speakers lined up: * Brenda is going to tell us about memcached (the memory caching daemon) * I'll be talking about exception handling in Perl8 August Neither talk is expected to be lengthy so if someone wants to volunteer to do another short talk then let me know. The meeting is at the usual time and place: 6:00pm Tuesday 10 October 2006 Level 2, Eagle Technology House 150 Willis Street Wellington The kind folk at O'Reilly have sent us another couple of books (in return for us hosting their banner ads): Perl Hack by chromatic with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook by Ian Langworth and chromatic http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltestingadn/ Let me know if you'd like to borrow either of these. Regards Grant From Andrew.Boag at catalyst.net.nz Tue Oct 3 14:10:38 2006 From: Andrew.Boag at catalyst.net.nz (Andrew Boag) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:10:38 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday (+ new books) In-Reply-To: <1159909369.1838.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1159909369.1838.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <4522D1CE.7060600@catalyst.net.nz> Hi Grant, I could do one on log4perl. Andrew Grant McLean wrote: >Hi Mongers > >The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is Tuesday October 10th: > > http://wellington.pm.org/ > >We have two speakers lined up: > >* Brenda is going to tell us about memcached (the memory caching daemon) > >* I'll be talking about exception handling in Perl8 August > >Neither talk is expected to be lengthy so if someone wants to volunteer >to do another short talk then let me know. > >The meeting is at the usual time and place: > > 6:00pm Tuesday 10 October 2006 > Level 2, Eagle Technology House > 150 Willis Street > Wellington > >The kind folk at O'Reilly have sent us another couple of books (in >return for us hosting their banner ads): > >Perl Hack by chromatic with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ > >Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook by Ian Langworth and chromatic > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltestingadn/ > >Let me know if you'd like to borrow either of these. > >Regards >Grant > >_______________________________________________ >Wellington-pm mailing list >Wellington-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > > > From Andrew.Boag at catalyst.net.nz Tue Oct 3 14:13:38 2006 From: Andrew.Boag at catalyst.net.nz (Andrew Boag) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:13:38 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday (+ new books) In-Reply-To: <4522D1CE.7060600@catalyst.net.nz> References: <1159909369.1838.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <4522D1CE.7060600@catalyst.net.nz> Message-ID: <4522D282.4010009@catalyst.net.nz> Looks like it's official. The offer has been published in the public record. Curse them pesky 'Reply-To' settings in Thunderbird!!!! Andrew Boag wrote: >Hi Grant, > >I could do one on log4perl. > >Andrew > >Grant McLean wrote: > > > >>Hi Mongers >> >>The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is Tuesday October 10th: >> >> http://wellington.pm.org/ >> >>We have two speakers lined up: >> >>* Brenda is going to tell us about memcached (the memory caching daemon) >> >>* I'll be talking about exception handling in Perl8 August >> >>Neither talk is expected to be lengthy so if someone wants to volunteer >>to do another short talk then let me know. >> >>The meeting is at the usual time and place: >> >> 6:00pm Tuesday 10 October 2006 >> Level 2, Eagle Technology House >> 150 Willis Street >> Wellington >> >>The kind folk at O'Reilly have sent us another couple of books (in >>return for us hosting their banner ads): >> >>Perl Hack by chromatic with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe >> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ >> >>Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook by Ian Langworth and chromatic >> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltestingadn/ >> >>Let me know if you'd like to borrow either of these. >> >>Regards >>Grant >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wellington-pm mailing list >>Wellington-pm at pm.org >>http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm >> >> >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Wellington-pm mailing list >Wellington-pm at pm.org >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > > > From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Oct 3 15:12:32 2006 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:12:32 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday (+ new books) In-Reply-To: <1159909369.1838.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1159909369.1838.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1159913552.1838.20.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Just to clarify a couple of points arising from my poor typing and lack of proof-reading 1. I will be talking about Perl 5 not Perl 8 2. There is more than one hack in chromatic's book Thanks Andrew, it is indeed official. If you want to do slides, I can hook you up with a nifty HTML slide script :-) And don't blame Thunderbird, it's the way the list is set up. Cheers Grant On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 10:02 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is Tuesday October 10th: > > http://wellington.pm.org/ > > We have two speakers lined up: > > * Brenda is going to tell us about memcached (the memory caching daemon) > > * I'll be talking about exception handling in Perl8 August > > Neither talk is expected to be lengthy so if someone wants to volunteer > to do another short talk then let me know. > > The meeting is at the usual time and place: > > 6:00pm Tuesday 10 October 2006 > Level 2, Eagle Technology House > 150 Willis Street > Wellington > > The kind folk at O'Reilly have sent us another couple of books (in > return for us hosting their banner ads): > > Perl Hack by chromatic with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ > > Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook by Ian Langworth and chromatic > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltestingadn/ > > Let me know if you'd like to borrow either of these. > > Regards > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From perlmonger at pck.co.nz Tue Oct 3 17:39:05 2006 From: perlmonger at pck.co.nz (Peter Kelly) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:39:05 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] When Perlmongers are forced to use VB Message-ID: <20061004003905.GA6206@determine.co.nz> I may follow this up with some use of Regex, but in the interim: Sub dumpHashOfHash(ByRef hash As IDictionary) Dim k1 As String For Each k1 In hash.Keys Dim k2 As String Dim points As IDictionary points = CType(hash(k1), Hashtable) For Each k2 In points.Keys If points(k2) Is Nothing Then PDebug(k2 & " in " & k1 & " does not exist.") Else PDebug("outer key= " & k1 & " inner key=" & k2 & " value=" & points(k2).ToString) End If Next Next End Sub From sam at vilain.net Tue Oct 3 17:51:31 2006 From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:51:31 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] When Perlmongers are forced to use VB In-Reply-To: <20061004003905.GA6206@determine.co.nz> References: <20061004003905.GA6206@determine.co.nz> Message-ID: <45230593.5070709@vilain.net> You poor, poor thing. Get well soon. xxx Sam. Peter Kelly wrote: > I may follow this up with some use of Regex, but in the interim: > > Sub dumpHashOfHash(ByRef hash As IDictionary) > Dim k1 As String > For Each k1 In hash.Keys > Dim k2 As String > Dim points As IDictionary > points = CType(hash(k1), Hashtable) > For Each k2 In points.Keys > If points(k2) Is Nothing Then > PDebug(k2 & " in " & k1 & " does not exist.") > Else > PDebug("outer key= " & k1 & " inner key=" & k2 & " > value=" & points(k2).ToString) > End If > Next > Next > > End Sub > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > From michael at diaspora.gen.nz Tue Oct 3 19:02:19 2006 From: michael at diaspora.gen.nz (michael at diaspora.gen.nz) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:02:19 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] When Perlmongers are forced to use VB In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:39:05 +1300." <20061004003905.GA6206@determine.co.nz> Message-ID: Peter Kelly writes: >I may follow this up with some use of Regex, but in the interim: > > Sub dumpHashOfHash(ByRef hash As IDictionary) You do realise that the Win32::OLE modules will let you do most scripting type functions from Perl? Get ActiveState's distribution, it's got everything included. (This is of course no good when doing coding for a VB loving organisation; I usually just throw up my hands at that point.) -- michael. From perlmonger at pck.co.nz Tue Oct 3 19:19:40 2006 From: perlmonger at pck.co.nz (Peter Kelly) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:19:40 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] When Perlmongers are forced to use VB In-Reply-To: References: <20061004003905.GA6206@determine.co.nz> Message-ID: <20061004021940.GA6462@determine.co.nz> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:02:19PM +1300, michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote: > Peter Kelly writes: > > Sub dumpHashOfHash(ByRef hash As IDictionary) > > You do realise that the Win32::OLE modules will let you do most > scripting > type functions from Perl? Yes. > (This is of course no good when doing coding for > a VB loving organisation; I usually just throw up my hands at that > point.) Sadly this is the position I am in. I am permitted to write Perl scripts for some areas, but others are VB only. I am currently working on a daily basis with VB, Visual Fortran, Perl, JSP, ASP, Java in Tomcat, COM, Java in JBoss, Oracle (with lots of PL/SQL), SQL Server, some client side Java and ActiveX, and of course Win32 batch files. Both don't worry, it's all linked with XML! On the upside, the sun shines here in Perth. Daily. Cheers, Peter From srdjan at catalyst.net.nz Tue Oct 3 19:43:42 2006 From: srdjan at catalyst.net.nz (Srdjan) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:43:42 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] When Perlmongers are forced to use VB In-Reply-To: <20061004021940.GA6462@determine.co.nz> References: <20061004003905.GA6206@determine.co.nz> <20061004021940.GA6462@determine.co.nz> Message-ID: <45231FDE.3050201@catalyst.net.nz> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Don't worry about the sun. You're covered in crap so much that you're totally unreachable. Condolences, Srdjan Peter Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:02:19PM +1300, michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote: >> Peter Kelly writes: >>> Sub dumpHashOfHash(ByRef hash As IDictionary) >> You do realise that the Win32::OLE modules will let you do most >> scripting >> type functions from Perl? > > Yes. > >> (This is of course no good when doing coding for >> a VB loving organisation; I usually just throw up my hands at that >> point.) > > Sadly this is the position I am in. I am permitted to write Perl > scripts for some areas, but others are VB only. > > I am currently working on a daily basis with VB, Visual Fortran, Perl, > JSP, ASP, Java in Tomcat, COM, Java in JBoss, Oracle (with lots of > PL/SQL), SQL Server, some client side Java and ActiveX, and > of course Win32 batch files. Both don't worry, it's all linked with > XML! > > On the upside, the sun shines here in Perth. Daily. > > Cheers, > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFIx/eZtcHxCitRpgRAkBzAJ9hnaEHe+fsiVM7PoW2FljfJC34hwCdEaAB o5DUdEli9LnZqyXl+BCR0qc= =CP+X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Oct 8 23:41:44 2006 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:41:44 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Getting started with Ruby on Rails - a community based approach] Message-ID: <1160376105.5568.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Mongers If you're interested in Ruby on Rails, you might like to sign up for the "Getting Started" session detailed below. I've been along to a few meeting of the WellRailed group and they have some smart people who live and breath Rails so this is a great opportunity to learn the basics (and eat pizza and maybe win a book). Please forward the message to anyone who may be interested. Also, I'm sure no one has forgotten, but the October meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. See you there from six. Cheers Grant -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Tomek Piatek > Reply-To: WellRailed at googlegroups.com > To: WellRailed at googlegroups.com > Subject: Getting started with Ruby on Rails - a community based > approach > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:12:46 +1300 > > Hello, > > As some of you may have heard the Wellington Ruby on Rails developers > community (WellRailed) is organising a seminar on Ruby on Rails for > complete beginners. This doesn't mean that only beginners should come > though. Everyone is welcome as you all have something to contribute, > be it a simple question or an insightful answer. The seminar is > jointly organised by Tomek Piatek, Tim Haines and Nahum Wild. > > What: Getting started with Ruby on Rails - a community based approach > When: 6:30pm, Tuesday, 31st October 2006 > Where: CreativeHQ, 25a Marion Street, Te Aro, Wellington (behind > Resene Paint) > Presented by: Nahum Wild > Intended audience: Anyone interested in Ruby on Rails. > Prerequisites: Interest in Ruby on Rails. Knowledge of programming in > any language will be useful during the live demo. > Refreshments: Hell pizza > Cost: Free. It's a community event. It is our turn to give back. > > The format will be as follows: > * Arrive between 6:30 and 7pm. > * Start at 7pm: Welcome and introduction > * Quick overview of Ruby on Rails and its main underlying design > pattern: Model-View-Controller > * An end to end demonstration of how to build a simple blog > application in Rails. > * Q&A time. > A traditional computer science refreshment consisting of pizza will be > served during the Q&A session by our sponsors ProjectX Technology. > Also, the kind folks at The Pragmatic Programmers publishing company > have donated a copy of "Agile Web Development with Rails" which will > go into a draw on the night. In the spirit of honouring those who > taught us and helping those who come after us anyone with more than a > year of Rails development experience is not eligible for this prize as > you won't need it. If you are an expert you won't miss out though as > all WellRailed members are now eligible for a 30% discount off all > O'Rielly books. Come to the seminar to find out how. > > This will be a popular event (how could it not be with all that > pizza). Due to the limited size of the venue we can only accommodate > 30 people. Please register today by sending an email to > tomek.piatek at gmail.com. We will send a notification to the list to let > you know how many places remain. > > Please help us promote this event by telling your friends about it. > > About WellRailed > > We are group of software developers based in and around Wellington. We > share a common passion for technology which can make our lives easier > and we want to share our knowledge with other, like-minded people. We > have an active mailing list. Everyone is always welcome to subscribe > to the list: http://groups.google.com/group/WellRailed. Once you have > subscribed you can send your posts to WellRailed at googlegroups.com. You > can also access and search through the list archive on the group page > http://groups.google.com/group/WellRailed. > > cheers, > WellRailed > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WellRailed" group. > To post to this group, send email to WellRailed at googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > WellRailed-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/WellRailed > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Oct 9 17:11:17 2006 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:11:17 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 9] Message-ID: <1160439078.28097.1.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Marsee Henon > Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 9 > Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:58:33 -0700 > > Hello, > > Just a note to let you know that we have 33 new releases (wow!) in this > issue. 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Peter Mikhalenko discusses the implementation, theory, > and legality of using a honeypot to protect your network. > > > > ***Survey Exposes The Four Web Dev Stereotypes--Which are You? > In what may be the largest survey of web developers ever, The State of > Web Development 2006/2007 exposes four key web professional stereotypes. > In this review, Nick explains how the stats were collated, and what they > revealed about the industry and those who work in it. > > > --------------------- > MAKE > --------------------- > ***Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween Contests > Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween > contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter. 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To enter Trick-or-Treat just post about MAKE/CRAFT or the contest > on your blog. > > For complete contest information, rules, and prizes, go to: > > > > For More MAKE Projects and info, go to: > > > --------------------- > Podcasts > --------------------- > ***The Way of a Digital Photography Pioneer > In "Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography," the renowned photographer > writes about his journey on the "bleeding edge of digital photography's > evolution." In this podcast, Johnson talks to Sara Peyton about his > career, photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age, and why, for > him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring about the > wild places he wandered in. (20 minutes 27 seconds), Stephen Johnson, a > digital photography pioneer and author of Stephen Johnson on Digital > Photography, discusses photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age, > and why, for him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring > about the wild places he wandered in. > > > > ***Listen to DerEngel(No Starch's "Hacking The Cable Modem") on > NYC's WBAI-FM > DerEngel talks about how he collected the information for the book, his > background as a hardware hacker, the EFF's participation in reviewing > the book from a legal standpoint, and the importance of supporting free > speech in a corporate world. The cable companies may not be happy with > this book, but DerEngel and the WBAI host agree that "Hacking The Cable > Modem" contains useful info for understanding how Internet > broadbandworks and that there are curious tinkerers who just like to > learn new stuff, not commit malicious acts. > > > > ***TechTalkRadio Interviews David Pogue > Find out what to expect with the subject of one of David's upcoming > titles on the anticipated Microsoft Windows Vista and some other ways to > get info on tech from David Pogue. We'll also find out why David loves > the latest Tivo! > > > > **Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way > Eddie Tapp, 2006 Photoshop Hall of Famer, award-winning photographer, > and much sought after educator, discusses his new book from O'Reilly, > "Photoshop Workflow Setups." In this interview by new O'Reilly staffer > Sara Peyton, Eddie talks about his photography roots, the art of taking > pictures, his new book...and why he lives by the rule of 300. (15 > minutes 33 seconds) > > > --------------------- > Web > --------------------- > ***Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules > Yogesh Makwana and Syvum Technologies had a problem: their application, > hosted on a shared server, used too much CPU time and had grown > unresponsive. Moving to a virtual private server and using the > appropriate Apache modules and architecture brought their costs and > response times and load averages under control. This case study explores > their technique. > > > > Until next time-- > > Marsee Henon > > > ================================================================ > O'Reilly > 1005 Gravenstein Highway North > Sebastopol, CA 95472 > http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ > ================================================================ From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Oct 10 14:22:10 2006 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:22:10 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting Message-ID: <1160515330.16656.4.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers Thanks to everyone for a fun and informative meeting last night. The slides from the three talks are up on the web site now: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ The next meeting will be on Tuesday November 14th. Sam's volunteered to try out his OSDC (Database: Master or Slave?) talk. So that leaves room for one other short talk - speak up quick before you miss this once-in-a-month opportunity :-) Cheers Grant From jarich at perltraining.com.au Tue Oct 17 01:33:53 2006 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:33:53 +1000 (EST) Subject: [Wellington-pm] OSDC 2006's fabulous keynotes Message-ID: <20061017083353.4492A11000C@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Book before 31st October to save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt! Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html The conference is running in Melbourne from the 6th - 8th December, with a day of tutorials on the 5th. Keynote talks this year include: Damian Conway: "The Da Vinci Codebase" When a dying operating system scrawls his name across its corrupted boot volume, Dr. Damian Conway, an unassuming college professor, is plunged into a deadly race against time to solve a series of impossible riddles. What is the mysterious "Priory of Bios?" And who are their deadly nemeses "Opus Arai?" On the run from the law and stalked by a ghostly pale killer, will he unravel the subtle clues hidden in Leonardo's most famous source code and reveal to the world the incredible secret encrypted in...the Da Vinci Codebase? Randal L. Schwartz: "Free software - A look back, a look ahead" A twenty year history of the free/open software movement, from my perspective of how to contribute (in many ways!) and how to make money as well. Richard Farnsworth: "Open Source Synchrotron" What is a Synchrotron anyway? What software needs does it has? How can Open Source help solve these? The Australian Synchrotron achieved first light in July 2005 almost exclusively filling its software needs through open source. The code base has been refined to suit local conditions, and shared with the rest of the Synchrotron open source community. By sharing information, experience and software freely between scientists and engineers, great design efficiencies have been made further aiding the development of experimental beamlines. Anthony Baxter: "futurepython" import __future__ What does the future hold for the Python language? In this talk, we'll look at Microsoft's (Open Sourced!) IronPython and show some of the massive fun coming down the track for scripting languages thanks to .Net and Mono. We'll also cover Python 3.0 (now under development) and the PyPy (Python, in Python) project. Be a part of this fantastic conference and help it be the best developers' conference this year! If your business would like to benefit from exposure to many of Australia's best open source developers then perhaps you should consider sponsorship. We have a wide range of sponsorship options, to find out more information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html We look forward to sharing this great conference with you! Don't forget to register before 31st October to get a free conference t-shirt. http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html Jacinta Richardson OSDC Publicity Officer From jarich at perltraining.com.au Mon Oct 23 03:53:41 2006 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:53:41 +1000 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Call for presentations: Women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007 Message-ID: <453C9F35.9020607@perltraining.com.au> G'day everyone, I'm posting this on behalf of the LinuxChix Women's mini-conference. If you're interested in participating or know someone who might be, please pass it on. Everyone is welcome to attend the mini-conf. All the best, J The women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007 is calling for presentations by women on both Free Software technical topics and general topics of general interest to women involved in Free Software or working in IT. About the miniconference The LinuxChix women's mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, as part of the annual linux.conf.au Free Software conference running from 15?20 January, 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au are welcome to attend the women's miniconference, which will highlight the technical achievements of women in Free Software. The mini-conference welcomes attendees and speakers from other women's advocacy and development groups including Systers, Fedora Women and Debian Women among others. The mini-conference has several 45 talks slots available. Speakers should plan to present for 30 minutes; the remaining time will be devoted to discussion. All technical talks should be on Free (Open Source) Software related topics. Abstracts for talk proposals should be submitted to miniconf-submission at puzzling.org by Friday, November 10, 2006. The miniconference will also have some shorter (5?10 minute) demonstration and lightning talk slots available, you are welcome to email us to express an interest in giving one of these, but they do not have to be submitted at this time. Please see http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix for more information about the women's mini-conference and http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/CFP for full details of the call for presentations. Feel free to forward this mail to any women or groups you think would be interested. About linux.conf.au 2007 linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference for the Open Source and Free Software developer community. Now in its eighth year, linux.conf.au is regarded as one of the premier global FLOSS technical events and attracts many international open source software developers and users. Returning to Sydney from the 15th to 20th of January, linux.conf.au 2007 is supported by our Emperor sponsors, HP and IBM, and hosted at the University of New South Wales. For more information about linux.conf.au 2007 visit our website at: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ About Linux Australia Linux Australia exists to serve and promote the Australian Linux and Open Source community. The organisation aims to do this best by taking enthusiasms within the community, such as FOSS issues, projects, education, advocacy just to name a few, and help them flourish, to succeed. The lifeblood of this organisation is the people in the community, and Linux Australia strives to be both relevant and useful to the community. For more details about Linux Australia visit: http://www.linux.org.au/