From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Sep 6 14:59:08 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:59:08 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Meeting Tomorrow! Message-ID: <1252274348.8320.8.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be tomorrow evening (September 8th). Usual time and place: 6:00pm Tuesday 11 September 8th Level 3, Catalyst House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ Four talks are lined up (Olly's transport permitting): * Brenda Wallace - Net::DigitalNZ * Lenz Gschwendtner - Message driven infrastructures (RabbitMQ, Net::AMQP) * Andy Chilton - HTTP::Engine * Olly Betts - Xapian See you there. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Sep 7 18:15:47 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:47 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Meeting This Evening Message-ID: <1252372547.5277.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be this evening (September 8th). Usual time and place: 6:00pm Tuesday 11 September 8th Level 3, Catalyst House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ Four talks are lined up (Olly's transport permitting): * Brenda Wallace - Net::DigitalNZ * Lenz Gschwendtner - Message driven infrastructures (RabbitMQ, Net::AMQP) * Andy Chilton - HTTP::Engine * Olly Betts - Xapian See you there. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Sep 7 18:56:42 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:56:42 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Library Books In-Reply-To: <1252372547.5277.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1252372547.5277.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1252375002.5277.9.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Sorry, forgot to mention ... At the last few meetings I failed to wheel in the Perl Mongers 'library', so I'll try and manage that tonight. If you have borrowed books and are finished with them then please bring them along so others can have a go. A couple of titles that went out on loan and haven't been seen for a while: * Intermediate Perl * Beautiful Code Cheers Grant On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 13:15 +1200, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be this evening > (September 8th). > > Usual time and place: > > 6:00pm Tuesday 11 September 8th > Level 3, Catalyst House > 150 Willis Street > Wellington > http://wellington.pm.org/ > > Four talks are lined up (Olly's transport permitting): > > * Brenda Wallace - Net::DigitalNZ > * Lenz Gschwendtner - Message driven infrastructures (RabbitMQ, > Net::AMQP) > * Andy Chilton - HTTP::Engine > * Olly Betts - Xapian > > See you there. > > Cheers > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From srdjan at catalyst.net.nz Mon Sep 7 20:18:04 2009 From: srdjan at catalyst.net.nz (Srdjan) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:18:04 +1000 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Library Books In-Reply-To: <1252375002.5277.9.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1252372547.5277.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1252375002.5277.9.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <4AA5CCEC.5070502@catalyst.net.nz> Grant McLean wrote: > Sorry, forgot to mention ... > > At the last few meetings I failed to wheel in the Perl Mongers > 'library', so I'll try and manage that tonight. If you have borrowed > books and are finished with them then please bring them along so others > can have a go. > > A couple of titles that went out on loan and haven't been seen for a > while: > > * Intermediate Perl > * Beautiful Code > Of course you won't see "Beautiful Code" any more - it is too much to bear even for a seasoned programmer. Poor heart just skipped the beat. Beauty overload... From douglas at paradise.net.nz Mon Sep 7 20:37:25 2009 From: douglas at paradise.net.nz (Douglas Bagnall) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:37:25 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Library Books In-Reply-To: <4AA5CCEC.5070502@catalyst.net.nz> References: <1252372547.5277.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1252375002.5277.9.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <4AA5CCEC.5070502@catalyst.net.nz> Message-ID: <4AA5D175.3080501@paradise.net.nz> > * Intermediate Perl > * Beautiful Code I can't work out why, but Grant seems to be suggesting these are not the same thing. Douglas From andychilton at gmail.com Mon Sep 7 22:01:09 2009 From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 17:01:09 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers Library Books In-Reply-To: <1252375002.5277.9.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1252372547.5277.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1252375002.5277.9.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: 2009/9/8 Grant McLean : > ?* Beautiful Code Er, yep. I have that one. Will seek for it before next month. My bad. Cheers, Andy -- contact: Andrew Chilton website: http://www.pie.geek.nz/ From grant at mclean.net.nz Wed Sep 9 03:04:00 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:04:00 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of Last Night's Meeting Message-ID: <1252490640.7533.5.camel@localhost> Hi Mongers Well I thought that was a great meeting last night. It was especially good to see so many new faces. A big thank you to our speakers - Brenda, Lenz, Andy and Olly. I've put Andy's slides up on the web site. If any of the other speakers send me their slides I'll put them up there too: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ The next meeting will be in a month on October 13th. Please contact me if you'd like to volunteer to speak. And don't forget to propose a talk for the Open Programming Lanuages MiniConf at LCA: http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/ Cheers Grant From lenz at gschwendtner.eu Wed Sep 9 14:00:01 2009 From: lenz at gschwendtner.eu (Lenz Gschwendtner) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:00:01 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of Last Night's Meeting In-Reply-To: <1252490640.7533.5.camel@localhost> References: <1252490640.7533.5.camel@localhost> Message-ID: my slides are up on slideshare already ... http://www.slideshare.net/norbu09/rabbitmq-for-perlmongers cheers lenz On 9/09/2009, at 10:04 PM, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > Well I thought that was a great meeting last night. It was especially > good to see so many new faces. > > A big thank you to our speakers - Brenda, Lenz, Andy and Olly. > > I've put Andy's slides up on the web site. If any of the other > speakers > send me their slides I'll put them up there too: > > http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ > > The next meeting will be in a month on October 13th. Please contact > me > if you'd like to volunteer to speak. > > And don't forget to propose a talk for the Open Programming Lanuages > MiniConf at LCA: > > http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/ > > Cheers > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Sep 20 14:15:30 2009 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:15:30 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Submissions Close Friday for OPLM MiniConf @ LCA2010 Message-ID: <1253481330.4287.5.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers I know that traditionally you guys like to leave things to the last minute so I've helped you by failing to send this message for three days. Official reminder notice follows ... There's only one more week to get your presentation proposals in for the LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf! Our call for presentations closes on Friday 25 September 2009, so if you're planning on attending LCA2010 in Wellington in January, and have something to say about doing development with Open Source programming languages, libraries or frameworks, we'd love to hear from you! We're looking primarly for standard-length talks (20-25 minutes including questions), but we'll also consider double-length talks on suitably compelling topics (that's 40-45 minutes including questions). Our CFP is available from http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/ -- if you've already read it, you can submit your proposal at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm/cfp/submit/ == ABOUT THE MINICONF == The Linux.conf.au Open Programming Languages Miniconf is a single-day mini-conference about application development with Open Source programming languages. Featuring talks on a wide range of topics and programming languages, this miniconf aims to bring together open source developers with presentations that share techniques, best practices and values amongst programmers of all open programming languages. OPLM2010 will be held at Linux.conf.au 2010, in Wellington, New Zealand on January 18. OPLM2010 is being organised by Christopher Neugebauer and Jacinta Richardson with help from the broader community. You can contact the OPLM2010 organising team at oplm2010 at googlegroups.com or visit the website at http://blogs.tucs.org.au/oplm Regards Grant From jarich at perltraining.com.au Sun Sep 20 21:37:47 2009 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:37:47 +1000 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Invitation: Libre Graphics Day miniconf - Call for Participation Message-ID: <4AB7031B.70707@perltraining.com.au> Donna Benjamin who is organising the Libre Graphics Mini-conference day at LCA 2010, next January, has asked me to help her get in contact with New Zealanders who might be interested in presenting. If you are interested, or if you can think of someone who might be, please read the CFP below. It would be especially grand if you could help spread the word as well! Many thanks, Jacinta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Libre Graphics Day is a one day miniconf at linux.conf.au in Wellington, New Zealand on Monday 18th January, 2010. This is a broad call to participate! Do you develop, use, document, or train with Free Software Graphix tools? Tools such as GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, Sk1, Fontforge and Fontmatrix. Are you involved in the testing and development of the sub-systems and libraries on which these apps depend?Submit proposal now! * The X Window system * GEGL, Hugin, Oyranos * I/O devices and drivers; tablets, mice, keyboards, monitors,printers * Colour and Font Management * Cross-platform tools - developing for multiple platforms * Open Standards and file format interoperability: PDF, SVG, PNG etc * Open Content: clip art, fonts, creative commons, etc Perhaps you can share expertise in the 'How' of Libre Graphics? Could you talk about Design techniques and workflow? Pre-press, or Themes and Skins for open source web frameworks. What about Digital asset management? What about the Why? Communication strategy and effective marketing using graphic design. Open Source publishing? What about Digital Art just for Art's sake? Perhaps you have other ideas that relate to Libre Graphics? Please participate in our miniconf! We're calling for presentations related to Free Software in the Graphics domain, and aim to provide an environment for cross-project collaboration to build understanding of shared problems, and work towards shared solutions. Most of all, we just wanna have fun, and bring some of the Libre Graphics Love to the southern hemisphere. Submit a Proposal ----------------- To submit a proposal for participating in the LGD miniconf at linux.conf.au 2010 go to http://www.libregraphicsday.org/submit-proposal Call for Participation closes Friday 25th September! Libre Graphics Day ------------------ For the past four years Libre Graphics Meetings (LGM) have allowed developers, users and supporters of free graphical applications of all kinds to get together to discover, share and collaborate. However, scheduling has not made it easy for those not close enough to attend. This miniconf will bring the LGM experience to those almost literally on the far side of the globe from LGM 2010. Not only will this serve the developers working on graphical applications, drivers and technology who make up a portion of the core linux.conf.au audience, but it will also bring in many users, artists, graphic designers and potential open source users. Developers of different projects will be able to learn from and collaborate with other projects, while also gaining insight on some of the uses artistic end users discover. Users will have a chance to gain insight into the open source development process while at the same time giving them an opportunity to provide feedback and input directly to the developers of projects they might use. Miniconfs at linux.conf.au are unable to accept sponsorship. However, if you wish to support linux.conf.au, the conference sponsorship team would love to hear from you. For more info see http://www.lca2010.org.nz/sponsors/why_sponsor libre graphics meeting ---------------------- The fifth edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will take place in Brussels, Belgium. In May 2010, users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source creative software gather in the European capital for the collective sharing of creativity, innovation and ideas. The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting has been the premiere conference where developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats. Face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to developers and users alike; in the form of tutorials, talks, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) the event offers many formal and informal opportunities to interact. About linux.conf.au ------------------- linux.conf.au is one of the world's best conferences for free and open source software! The coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010, will be held at the Wellington Convention Centre in Wellington, New Zealand from Monday 18th January to Saturday 23rd January 2010. LCA2010 is fun, informal and seriously technical, bringing together Free and Open Source developers, users and community champions from around the world. LCA2010 is the second time linux.conf.au has been held in New Zealand, with the first being Dunedin in 2006. linux.conf.au 2010 is made possible by the generous support of our Conference Sponsors. http://www.lca2010.org.nz/sponsors InternetNZ, Google, Catalyst, Canonical, Egressive, 3months, Amberdms, DreamHost, Ingres, iWantMyName, RimuHosting, Citylink, DPS Payment Express, Epic Beer, Fiasco Wines, FX Networks, nicegear, Scoop About Linux Australia --------------------- Linux Australia is the peak body for Linux User Groups (LUGs) around Australia, and as such represents approximately 5000 Australian Linux users and developers. Linux Australia facilitates the organisation of this international Free Software conference in a different Australasian city each year. From duffyd at kokorice.org Thu Sep 24 01:30:09 2009 From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:30:09 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Kiwi PyCon 2009 - Open for Registration Message-ID: <1253781009.6448.497.camel@monty> Hello from Kiwi PyCon 2009 HQ, Registration is now open for Kiwi PyCon 2009! To skip to the chase, the following links will provide you with the added motivation (as if you needed it) to register for this first-of-its-kind event in Asia-Pacific: 1. Conference schedule: http://nz.pycon.org/talks-cfp/schedule/ 2. Registration page: http://nz.pycon.org/registrations/ 3. After entering your registration details, you'll be emailed an invoice for payment and following payment your place will be confirmed! Its as easy as 1-2-3. Students/Unwaged delegates will receive a discounted price of $20, with general admission being $40 and speakers (i.e. excluding Lightning Talks and Open Spaces sessions) receive a further discounted price of $10 (all prices are in NZD). Registration includes: * Kiwi PyCon T shirt (designed by the guy who brought you the BCA Ts) * Espresso coffee vouchers * Lunch and morning/afternoon tea snacks * Opportunity for lots of schwag giveaways There are only 100 places available for the Pre-Conference Party and 150 places for the Conference proper and we can't confirm your spot until you've paid up so get in quick to ensure you don't miss out. See you on the day - November 7-8, 2009 @ Christchurch, NZ! Over and out, Kiwi PyCon 2009 Organising Committee From duffyd at kokorice.org Wed Sep 30 04:51:12 2009 From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:51:12 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Reminder to register for Kiwi PyCon 2009 Message-ID: <1254311472.6460.141.camel@monty> Dear Fellow Pythonistas, With the new month upon us and about a month to go til 'D-Day' (well KPC Day), we just wanted to post a friendly reminder to register[1] as soon as you can for Kiwi PyCon 2009. Here at Kiwi PyCon '09 HQ we've set the date that we will have the T shirts to the printer by as **Friday, October 23rd** so if you haven't registered by that time you'll miss out on your correct T shirt size! We've also already sold about half of our available conference tickets and almost 3/4 of our Pre-Conf Party tickets so get in quick to secure your place at the party/conference. Too, remember your registration (for both the party and conference) isn't confirmed until you've paid your admission fee so please ensure you pay these as soon as you can after registering. It'll also help us to pay the conference expenses :) Yours, Kiwi PyCon 2009 HQ [1] http://nz.pycon.org/submit-registration