(1) The Wiki is Back! New hosting thanks to Greg R 's Qualitybox.US ,
suppliers of wikis and forums to discerning SMBs.
same Boston.PM.org address thanks to Perl.ORG
(2) Meetings resume !
September at the usual place,
October a road-trip to Waltham
(center of town so bus/express-bus/CR-train accessible,
but Bill will provide carpool for Cantabridgians too)
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September 11th: Ricky Morse - Perl 6 and Typesetting Formal Announcements
After ringing a bell for 45 minutes to 3 hours, you kind of want
people to know you did it, and what you did it for. Ricky uses Perl 6
to replace a manual process for creating ?half-sheets? to post in the
Old North ringing room, for tourists to see.
Ricky sensibly doesn't want to retype or copy-paste what's already
somewhere on-line, so he uses Perl 6 to pull the data from a database
as XML, and then typeset the half sheets. This is using Perl6, GROFF,
and C6PAN Modules Template::Mustache, XML::XPath, and HTTP::User
Agent.
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room E51-372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
NOTE: Parking Alert.
Recent changes in MIT Parking no longer officially allow un-permitted
parking after-hours, and parking lot under repair.
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave.
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP (to Bill or On List) for count encouraged but not required, by 4pm Tuesday.
DETAILS -
http://boston.pm.org/wiki/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/wiki/MIT_Directions [Includes parking notes]
