[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2006-09-14 Thread Ronald J Kimball
We had around 30 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. Jeff Barr, Amazon's Senior Evangelist for Web Services, gave an excellent talk. We learned about all of Amazon's web services, including their newest ones, Mechanical Turk and Elastic Compute Cloud. There was also a lot of discussion about the

[Boston.pm] YAPC 2007 in Houston

2006-09-14 Thread Ronald J Kimball
For those of you who you haven't already heard, Houston was chosen to host YAPC 2007. Boston.pm will, of course, be submitting a bid next year for YAPC 2008. http://www.yapc.org/America/ In addition, we are now discussing on the YAPC volunteers list the possibility of holding a Northeast Perl

[Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-14 Thread David H. Adler
So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? Thanks. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ It's all eggs,

Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-14 Thread John Abreau
David H. Adler wrote: So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? Thanks. dha A few things that come to mind: * Freedom Trail - walking

Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-14 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:42:48 -0400 JA == John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JA David H. Adler wrote: So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all

Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-14 Thread Minh Vo
John and Uri pretty much suggested all the good spots to see in Boston. Adding a few suggestions of my own onto the list: If you haven't seen Blueman Group, they have a show at 2pm on Oct. 22nd. Very interesting show... I agree with Uri on visiting Boston Common/public gardens. It's a

Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-14 Thread Uri Guttman
MV == Minh Vo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MV If you haven't seen Blueman Group, they have a show at 2pm on Oct. MV 22nd. Very interesting show... you may not realize that blue man started in nyc (where dave and mom live) and so they could see it there. also we still don't know the time

Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston

2006-09-14 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:42:48PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: JA == John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JA David H. Adler wrote: So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. What