From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Feb 2 00:31:45 2010 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:31:45 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting in 2 weeks In-Reply-To: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1265099505.8382.7.camel@localhost> Hi Mongers Our next meeting is just 7 days away (details below). Drop me an email to book a slot for a lightning talk (even if you haven't decided what to talk about yet). You might also like to think about inviting someone along. It's always good to see some new faces and the Lightning Talk meetings are fun. If you're planning to do slides for your lightning talk, please remember that they should be PDF/HTML/OpenOffice and should be emailed to me by 5:00pm next Tuesday. Cheers Grant On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:55 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > The first meeting of Wellington.pm will be in two weeks on Feb 9th. > As is traditional, we'll start the year with a lightning talk meeting. > Please feel free to book a slot (just drop me an email) even if you > haven't decided what to talk about yet. > > On the subject of talk topics, in addition to the suggestions on our web > site, there may have been topics that came up at the recent LCA > conference that people would like to share: > > http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html > > Mark your calendar: > > 6:00pm Tuesday 9 February 2010 > Level 3, Catalyst House > 150 Willis Street > Wellington > > Cheers > Grant > > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From matt at catalyst.net.nz Tue Feb 2 14:53:51 2010 From: matt at catalyst.net.nz (Matthew Hunt) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:53:51 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting in *1 week* In-Reply-To: <1265099505.8382.7.camel@localhost> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1265099505.8382.7.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <4B68ACFF.9060201@catalyst.net.nz> Grant McLean wrote: > Subject: Re: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting in *2 weeks* > > Hi Mongers > > Our next meeting is just 7 days away (details below). Drop me an email You have to admire Grant's ability to seed confusion into any perl mongers missive :) Matt. From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Feb 2 15:05:17 2010 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:05:17 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting in *1 week* In-Reply-To: <4B68ACFF.9060201@catalyst.net.nz> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1265099505.8382.7.camel@localhost> <4B68ACFF.9060201@catalyst.net.nz> Message-ID: <1265151917.28470.1.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 11:53 +1300, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Grant McLean wrote: > > Subject: Re: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting in *2 weeks* > > > > Hi Mongers > > > > Our next meeting is just 7 days away (details below). Drop me an email > > You have to admire Grant's ability to seed confusion into any perl > mongers missive :) What can I say? It's a talent. Thanks for pointing out the error. (For the record, the subject line was wrong. The meeting is next Tuesday). Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Feb 7 18:07:50 2010 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:07:50 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting tomorrow In-Reply-To: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers Remember, the lightning talk meeting is tomorrow. If you haven't booked a slot yet it's not too late - we could do with more speakers. If you're planning to do slides for your lightning talk, please remember that they should be PDF/HTML/OpenOffice and should be emailed to me by 5:00pm Tuesday. Cheers Grant P.S. I got Matt to proofread this email so it's guaranteed errer-free On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:55 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > The first meeting of Wellington.pm will be in two weeks on Feb 9th. > As is traditional, we'll start the year with a lightning talk meeting. > Please feel free to book a slot (just drop me an email) even if you > haven't decided what to talk about yet. > > On the subject of talk topics, in addition to the suggestions on our web > site, there may have been topics that came up at the recent LCA > conference that people would like to share: > > http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html > > Mark your calendar: > > 6:00pm Tuesday 9 February 2010 > Level 3, Catalyst House > 150 Willis Street > Wellington > > Cheers > Grant From lenz at gschwendtner.eu Sun Feb 7 18:25:40 2010 From: lenz at gschwendtner.eu (Lenz Gschwendtner) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:25:40 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting tomorrow In-Reply-To: <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <3ED94D1F-DEF2-48DC-BA39-9E4F6AD88A12@gschwendtner.eu> i wanna have a cookie now for reminding you by handing in my slides a day early ... :-) cheers lenz On 8/02/2010, at 3:07 PM, Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > Remember, the lightning talk meeting is tomorrow. > > If you haven't booked a slot yet it's not too late - we could do > with more speakers. > > If you're planning to do slides for your lightning talk, please remember > that they should be PDF/HTML/OpenOffice and should be emailed to me by > 5:00pm Tuesday. > > Cheers > Grant > > P.S. I got Matt to proofread this email so it's guaranteed errer-free > > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:55 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: >> Hi Mongers >> >> The first meeting of Wellington.pm will be in two weeks on Feb 9th. >> As is traditional, we'll start the year with a lightning talk meeting. >> Please feel free to book a slot (just drop me an email) even if you >> haven't decided what to talk about yet. >> >> On the subject of talk topics, in addition to the suggestions on our web >> site, there may have been topics that came up at the recent LCA >> conference that people would like to share: >> >> http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html >> >> Mark your calendar: >> >> 6:00pm Tuesday 9 February 2010 >> Level 3, Catalyst House >> 150 Willis Street >> Wellington >> >> Cheers >> Grant > > > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From lrw at clear.net.nz Mon Feb 8 13:47:56 2010 From: lrw at clear.net.nz (Lesley Longhurst) Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:47:56 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting tomorrow In-Reply-To: <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <4B70868C.4080406@clear.net.nz> I'm hoping to quickly throw one together at lunchtime. It'll be called "The Mordac Files". Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > Remember, the lightning talk meeting is tomorrow. > > If you haven't booked a slot yet it's not too late - we could do > with more speakers. > > If you're planning to do slides for your lightning talk, please remember > that they should be PDF/HTML/OpenOffice and should be emailed to me by > 5:00pm Tuesday. > > Cheers > Grant > > P.S. I got Matt to proofread this email so it's guaranteed errer-free > > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:55 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > >> Hi Mongers >> >> The first meeting of Wellington.pm will be in two weeks on Feb 9th. >> As is traditional, we'll start the year with a lightning talk meeting. >> Please feel free to book a slot (just drop me an email) even if you >> haven't decided what to talk about yet. >> >> On the subject of talk topics, in addition to the suggestions on our web >> site, there may have been topics that came up at the recent LCA >> conference that people would like to share: >> >> http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html >> >> Mark your calendar: >> >> 6:00pm Tuesday 9 February 2010 >> Level 3, Catalyst House >> 150 Willis Street >> Wellington >> >> 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 Mon Feb 8 13:52:10 2010 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:52:10 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting tomorrow In-Reply-To: <4B70868C.4080406@clear.net.nz> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <4B70868C.4080406@clear.net.nz> Message-ID: <1265665930.2557.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 10:47 +1300, Lesley Longhurst wrote: > I'm hoping to quickly throw one together at lunchtime. It'll be called > "The Mordac Files". Looking forward to it. If anyone else is undecided about whether to do a talk my advice is "Just do it!" Cheers Grant From andychilton at gmail.com Mon Feb 8 14:09:01 2010 From: andychilton at gmail.com (Andrew Chilton) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:09:01 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting tomorrow In-Reply-To: <1265665930.2557.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <4B70868C.4080406@clear.net.nz> <1265665930.2557.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: On 9 February 2010 10:52, Grant McLean wrote: > If anyone else is undecided about whether to do a talk my advice is "Just do it!" What's the current count Grant? How many more do we need/want or just 'more is better'? Cheers, Andy -- contact: Andrew Chilton website: http://www.chilts.org/ From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Feb 8 16:36:38 2010 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:36:38 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Lightning talk meeting tomorrow In-Reply-To: References: <1264542939.32375.15.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <1265594870.17795.10.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <4B70868C.4080406@clear.net.nz> <1265665930.2557.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <1265675798.2557.3.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 11:09 +1300, Andrew Chilton wrote: > On 9 February 2010 10:52, Grant McLean wrote: > > If anyone else is undecided about whether to do a talk my advice is "Just do it!" > > What's the current count Grant? How many more do we need/want or just > 'more is better'? I think we have 9 booked. There's easily room for 12. More is better. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Feb 9 14:48:59 2010 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:48:59 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Roundup of last night's meeting Message-ID: <1265755739.4213.8.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers Well that was a fun evening - thanks to everyone who came along and especially to our speakers. The slides are up on the web site: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ The next meeting will be on March 9th. Finlay is going to tell us about the R project (for statistical computing). With a bit of luck we'll also be able to encourage Tobi to do his talk on 'Impromptu' that was planned for last year. Let me know if you'd like to book a talk slot. Cheers Grant From mhx-perl at gmx.net Thu Feb 11 16:54:54 2010 From: mhx-perl at gmx.net (Marcus Holland-Moritz) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:54:54 +0100 Subject: [Wellington-pm] New Zealand book Message-ID: <20100212015454.7ffc7314@r2d2> Hi Mongers, it's been a while since my visit to New Zealand and wellington.pm. I really enjoyed my stay back then (and I hope to come back!). I've spent the last couple of months working on a book about my trip. Of course, this work involved a lot of Perl -- but also a bunch of other free tools. It feels really good to see that free software is perfectly capable of keeping up with commercial stuff. The book is released under a CC-BY-NC-ND license and is available both as a real book and as a free PDF download. So, without further ado, thank you for making my visit to Wellington a pleasurable one! 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The book looks fantastic. I've only read the first 1/4, and look forward to reading the rest and enjoying the rest of the excellent photographs. Cheers! -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand At work: andrew.ruthven at catalyst.net.nz At home: andrew at etc.gen.nz GPG fpr: 34CA 12A3 C6F8 B156 72C2 D0D7 D286 CE0C 0C62 B791 LCA2010: Co-Director, linux.conf.au 2010 - http://www.lca2010.org.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From grant at mclean.net.nz Thu Feb 11 18:43:28 2010 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:43:28 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] New Zealand book In-Reply-To: <20100212015454.7ffc7314@r2d2> References: <20100212015454.7ffc7314@r2d2> Message-ID: <1265942608.28572.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:54 +0100, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: > Hi Mongers, > > it's been a while since my visit to New Zealand and wellington.pm. > I really enjoyed my stay back then (and I hope to come back!). > > I've spent the last couple of months working on a book about my > trip. Of course, this work involved a lot of Perl -- but also a > bunch of other free tools. It feels really good to see that free > software is perfectly capable of keeping up with commercial stuff. > > The book is released under a CC-BY-NC-ND license and is available > both as a real book and as a free PDF download. > > So, without further ado, thank you for making my visit to > Wellington a pleasurable one! And I hope you enjoy my view on > your beautiful country a little bit... > > http://nzbook.mhxnet.de > > Cheers, > Marcus What a beautiful book! I look forward to sitting down and really getting into it. The colophon is a fascinating read - maybe that could be a talk in itself on your next visit to Wellington.pm :-) Congratulations on an visually stunning creation. Cheers Grant From mhx-perl at gmx.net Fri Feb 12 16:11:38 2010 From: mhx-perl at gmx.net (Marcus Holland-Moritz) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:11:38 +0100 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Offlist] Re: New Zealand book In-Reply-To: <4B74B88D.4010500@mcneill.gen.nz> References: <20100212015454.7ffc7314@r2d2> <4B74B88D.4010500@mcneill.gen.nz> Message-ID: <20100213011138.4219ed60@r2d2> Hi Ewen, thanks for your nice words! :) On 2010-02-12, at 15:10:21 +1300, Ewen McNeill wrote: > [Note: not posted to Perl Mongers list, but feel free to reply there.] > > Hi Marcus, > > Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: > > I've spent the last couple of months working on a book about my > > trip. Of course, this work involved a lot of Perl -- but also a > > bunch of other free tools. It feels really good to see that free > > software is perfectly capable of keeping up with commercial stuff. > > [...] > > http://nzbook.mhxnet.de > > I've only skimmed through it, but just wanted to say that it looks > stunning. The photography is easily equal any "coffee table" photo tour > of New Zealand, and I think probably better than many of them. Hehe, never heard the term "coffee table book", but I just looked it up. It's actually a lot more positive that I thought it would be. :) > Given the quality of the work (the bits of text I looked at also seemed > well written) you may want to consider approaching a book publisher and > see if they are interested in publishing a printed version of it. By > printing, eg, 1000-2000 at once they should be able to produce it for > significantly lower per copy than on demand printing at blurb, and give > it an audience in traditional book stores. Well, yeah. I have to admit that I would really enjoy if the book could reach a bigger audience and be significantly cheaper. Something I've already considered is getting about 1,000 copies offset printed and bound and selling them via Amazon. The raw book price would be about 10-15 Euros (so considerably less than 20% of what blurb charges), the quality would even be slightly better with the offset printing and a special glossy paper (not that the quality of blurb is bad, but I think there's always a way to do better). AFAIK, Amazon typically charges about 100% of the raw price for their work. Still, being able to sell this kind of book for 30 Euros (instead of 90) would be just fantastic. However, the obvious problems are that I would need to pay a huge amount of money and that I would have to store 1,000 huge books in my flat. ;) So, as much as I would like it, this is not really feasible. Coming back to your proposal, I'm a bit worried about dealing with a publisher. I've never done this before, and the main problem I see is that I can be quite a bullhead when I have an exact idea of what I want. So I need to find a publisher that shares my point of view. ;) Anyway, you absolutely have a point and I think I'm going to approach a publisher with this. The worst that can happen is that I have to keep selling the books via blurb. If you have any experience in this field or know anyone who could recommend a publisher for this kind of project, I would sincerely appreciate any suggestions. > I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to New Zealand, and thank you for > sharing your experience. You are very welcome. I really take your appreciation of my work as a great compliment. Cheers, Marcus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: From mhx-perl at gmx.net Fri Feb 12 16:18:24 2010 From: mhx-perl at gmx.net (Marcus Holland-Moritz) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:18:24 +0100 Subject: [Wellington-pm] New Zealand book In-Reply-To: <1265942608.28572.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <20100212015454.7ffc7314@r2d2> <1265942608.28572.2.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <20100213011824.6af03581@r2d2> Hi Grant, On 2010-02-12, at 15:43:28 +1300, Grant McLean wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:54 +0100, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: > > Hi Mongers, > > > > it's been a while since my visit to New Zealand and wellington.pm. > > I really enjoyed my stay back then (and I hope to come back!). > > > > I've spent the last couple of months working on a book about my > > trip. Of course, this work involved a lot of Perl -- but also a > > bunch of other free tools. It feels really good to see that free > > software is perfectly capable of keeping up with commercial stuff. > > > > The book is released under a CC-BY-NC-ND license and is available > > both as a real book and as a free PDF download. > > > > So, without further ado, thank you for making my visit to > > Wellington a pleasurable one! And I hope you enjoy my view on > > your beautiful country a little bit... > > > > http://nzbook.mhxnet.de > > > > Cheers, > > Marcus > > What a beautiful book! I look forward to sitting down and really > getting into it. Thanks! :) > The colophon is a fascinating read - Yeah, that's definitely the page for nerds and hackers... ;) > maybe that could be a talk in > itself on your next visit to Wellington.pm :-) Oh, I would be very glad to do this! > Congratulations on an visually stunning creation. :) Thanks && cheers, Marcus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To that end, I think a new Super Happy Dev House is in > order! We'll meet at the usual spot, Southern Cross, on Sunday 7 March > at around noon. Bring along your own ideas, or just come to see what > others have going. > > Hope to see you all there! > > Cheers, > Evan > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: