[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Feb 13th - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Let's try this again ... last month we tried, but it being IAP,
we didn't actually have a room.
(Minor admin oversight. We did have a nice chat over pizza.)

February 13th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details -

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. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
 http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
 http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
 http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here


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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Typo E51-376 Tonight!



On Jan 8, 2018 1:24 AM, "Bill Ricker"  wrote:

> HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
> 2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !
>
> January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
> 7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
> Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening
>
> Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
> on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
> business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
> Perl makes building his game fun.
>
> Original Abstract -
> "With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
> However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
> responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
> a weapon, and medkit?
> "And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
> requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
> or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
> you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
> "And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
> drives almost everything?
> "This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
> Station to easily model complex behaviors."
>
> We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
> as needed) in lieu of speaker Q
>
> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
> after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
>
> Boilerplate details -
>
> 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. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
> Links
> http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
> http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
> http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !

January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


Boilerplate details -

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. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Next Tech Meeting
Tues, Jul 11th
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)
MIT E51-376  starting 7.30 (but there 7-ish)

Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017
playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

> 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. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
> public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
> lot/garages.
>
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

> ( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
> access, let me know ! )

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Perl 5.26 released - Parking Alert - now with abstract !

[Bill Ricker]

Tech Meeting

June 13th. 7:00/7:30pm E51-376

New features, changes in Perl 5.26

Join us to see what's new in the latest Perl. Using slides prepared by
brian d foy for an AmsterdamX.pm presentation, we'll go over the
highlights of new features and changes in Perl 5.26, including the
potential disruptive change of removing the current directory (.) from
the @INC module search path. We'll supplement the slides with the
official Perl Delta (change log) document, and other online sources
where more depth is required. The talk will be an open discussion
format, with Bill Ricker leading us through the slides, but plenty of
opportunity for the audience to ask questions, or offer opinion, and
in some cases we'll try some live demos of the new features.


Boilerplate --

> 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. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
> public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
> lot/garages.
>
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

> ( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
> access, let me know ! )





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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Perl 5.26 released - Parking Alert

[Bill Ricker]

Next Tech Meeting

June 13th. 7:00/7:30pm E51-376

New features, changes in Perl 5.26 [Bill and anyone else with opinions]


***  Parking Alert. ***
Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
lot/garages. (Too Much details below)

Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)

( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
access, let me know ! )

Boilerplate --

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. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Bill Ricker  bill.n1...@gmail.com
 . . . . . . .

E51 ceases to be extra awesome as multmodal destination, now merely
great (T) and A/V.

> "Visitors who are not hosted by an  MIT department may pay to park at an  MIT 
> lot located on the corner of Mass Ave  and Vassar Street (139 Mass  Ave). You 
> may call 617-258-6510 for current rates  and availability."

(Reading in context, Hosted => given a paid voucher that hosting Dept
buys from Parking Dept, so i don't think how we get our rooms counts
as "hosted" with Parking.)

> * Parking at MIT without a Permit
> MIT parking permits are required for all vehicles on MIT property.
> Vehicles without MIT parking permits parked in any MIT parking area will be 
> subject to ticketing or towing.


> * After Hours
> Anyone with a valid MIT parking permit can park his/her vehicle in any 
> parking facility on campus after 2:30 PM, Monday through Friday, and all day 
> on weekends and MIT holidays. Please note that parking is only allowed in 
> spots that are not otherwise reserved.

Change here is that permits for _any_ lot now valid in _all_ lots
after 2:30; previously permits were _not_ required per website after 5
and in reality after 3, but now no.
Parking is at risk. Cambridge meters and the pay lots and garages are
the only safe options.

References:
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/construction/updates.shtml
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitors/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitors/public_parking.html

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 11 - MIT - 7ish - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr

[Bill Ricker]

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr : (Perl 5 and Perl 6)
Tues, Apr 11th, 2017, 7ish Room E51-376

"I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I
developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts.
As a bonus, just for this talk I wrote something in Perl 6 that does a
similar task."

(So if you're looking for ways to capture unstructured (no API) data
from the web with Perl, this talk is for you.)

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

NOTE - the former overflow parking is mostly gone.
There is another lot on Hayward that may take a few cars ...

Boilerplate details

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.
(directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions ).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to
   bill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6) "

[Bill Ricker]

Ricky Morse, Digital pack-ratting for Tumblr (Perl 5 and Perl 6)
Tuesday March 14th (3.14=Pi Day!!) 7ish
MIT Room E51-376

"I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I will be showing a tool that I
developed to help me hoard Tumblr meme posts. As a bonus, just for
this talk I wrote something in Perl 6."

Ricky Morse has been using Perl for various things since the late 90s.

[ Since it's Pi Day, i'll arrange special cookies and/or pie to
celebrate math geekiness. If anyone wants to bake or otherwise bring a
non-pizza pie speak up ! -- Bill ]

(Originally scheduled for Tues, Feb 14th; POSTPONED , apparently
Valentines Day less nerdly activities are preferred?)

Boilerplate details

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.
// Short walk to MIT Kendall T; Easy off Easy on to all superhighways
with free parking offstreet
// https://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the
squarish 372 first door that we had some terms.)

Calendar of past meeting notes and future dates
// https://boston.pm.org/Calendar
Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting Tuesday 7/12 - CPAN Contribution live Demo / hack

[Bill Ricker]

Our ?biennial? hackathon to support our adopted Damian module,
Config::Std is our July topic.

• https://metacpan.org/release/Config-Std
• https://github.com/n1vux/Config-Std-Perl

We have a new old  bug -- prior deprecation of literal '{' becomes
fatal in 5.25 dev release for 5.26, coming in 2017.
   https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114342
So this *needs* fix this year.

If there are other RT tickets we can handle, great !

You'll want to perlbrew a 5.25 or blead-perl if you want to play along.


__ Boilerplate details __

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. (directions =>
http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions ).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 second door, not the
squarish 372 first door that we had some terms.)



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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting Tuesday 7/12 - CPAN Contribution live Demo / hack

[Bill Ricker]

Our ?biennial? hackathon to support our adopted Damian module, Config::Std
is our July topic.
https://metacpan.org/release/Config-Std
https://github.com/n1vux/Config-Std-Perl

We have a new old  bug -- prior deprecation of literal { becomes fatal in
5.26, coming soon
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114342

You'll want to perlbrew a 5.25 or blead-perl if you want to play along.


​Usual details, MIT E51-376,  7-730ish, ​...

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday (TOMORROW) : Testing Modern Perl

[Bill Ricker]

​The 14th is as late as the 1st Tuesday ever comes in the month ...
However, it's worth the wait.
We have a live speaker !

​RSVP appreciated but not required.​

​As seen on http://boston.pm.org/ ,  ​
2nd Tuesday, June 14th. Tim King: Testing Modern Perl with Test::Class 
MIT E51-376 aka 2 Amherst St,
Cambridge, usual times: gather 7ish, talk 7:30 .

​(This is Perl 5, not part of our Perl 6 season.)

Being on the 14th ​means we're back-to-back, Boston.pm 2nd-Tuesday /
> 3rd-Wednesday BLU.ORG;
> *BLU* has on June 15th
>   "*Project Atomic*: A Docker-based project for creating and running
> applications in Linux containers"
>http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2016-jun on the same floor, other
> hallway.
> ​( gloss: Containers are light-weight pseudo virtualization and
> deployment. Hot topic in cloud management. ) ​
>



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[Boston.pm-announce] NO Meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

Tech Meeting Tonight is CANCELED.

Due to family stuff and work, i don't have a topic to present and thus no
advance publicity.
So rather than fake it ...

​We do have a Speaker ​and Topic for June -- Tim King, a colleague of Tom's
and mine, will present testing Modern Perl with Test::Class etc.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting Tuesday, Aug. 11 (tomorrow)

[Uri Guttman]

hi all,

we are convening a social meeting to officially change over the position 
of fearless leader of boston.pm. ronald kimball who was our first (and 
best!) fearless leader is moving to minnesota. our long time interim 
fearless leader, bill, can finally remove the interim.


we will be celebrating the peaceful transfer of little power at the 
sunset grill in allston at 7pm on tuesday august 11 (that is tomorrow!)


here is the current attendee list as i know it. additions and 
corrections are welcome. i do want a reasonably accurate headcount so i 
can reserve the space.


ronald (guest of honor)
bill (now he will become permanent fearless leader as ronald can't anymore)
uri
Elaine HFB (been quite a long time)
Andrew
Rickie
Bobbie

thanx,

uri

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[Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting, Tuesday, Aug 11 (2nd advance notice)

[Bill Ricker]

​
​
Current and former habitués of Boston.PM are invited to gather at Sunset
Grill and Tap in Allston on our usual Second Tuesday to send Ronald, our
former Facilitator, off in style.

​
Ronald wrote :

 As Uri mentioned on the announcement list, we would like to have a social
 meeting on Tuesday, Aug 11, so that I can say goodbye to all of you,
 because I am moving to Minneapolis next month!
 ​​   As an extra enticement, I will be bringing some unclaimed Perl Monger
 shirts from 2006.
(It's been a while since I made it to a meeting, so, for those of you
 who
 may not remember me, I was the leader of Boston.pm from 1999 to 2008. :)
Ronald​

 ​
​
*​Location*:  Sunset Grill and Tap in Allston. 130 Brighton Avenue (at
Harvard Ave).
*When*: Tuesday, Aug 11th, 7ish if not sooner ? til whenever ?
*How*: short walk (7min/0.4mi) from Packards Tnr on B-line trolley
(CommBrighton)
or even shorter walk (4min/0.2mi) from the next stop after
(CommHarvard),
or 57A bus drops across the street (outbound)
*Parking*: In Allston? ROFL. Take the T, Über, taxi, pedicab, or bike.
   Note that MBTA is converting to Pay-by-phone or pay-by-plate if parking
at end-of-line.
   Seriously, there is one small public parking lot very nearby off Harvard
Ave  behind DragonWok/Asiana/Garlic'n'Lemons/Padaria. 50+spaces plus 3♿.
  (Also note many parking meters are running later in the evening now.)

*Please RSVP* on boston...@pm.org so Uri can get a head count and reserve
space for us.

(watch this space for any details)
​
​​
​cc: Ronald, Uri, Boston-PM​

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] No meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

​Reminder:

We don't have a speaker and it's summer.

 However, if you want to see the continuation of Federico's SD experiment,
 his 0.2 version of the talk with more working is at BLU.org on the other
 hallway on Wednesday.





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[Boston.pm-announce] No meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

We don't have a speaker and it's summer.

However, if you want to see the continuation of Federico's SD experiment,
his 0.2 version of the talk with more working is at BLU.org on the other
hallway on Wednesday.

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[Boston.pm-announce] March Meeting Tuesday - Messaging Middleware with AMQP and RabbitMQ

[Bill Ricker]

March 10, 2015
Topic: Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ and RabbitMQ
Date: Tue 03/10/15
Time: 7:00p - 10:00p
Classroom: E51-376
Speaker: Mike Stemle, Jr.

Mike Stemle, Jr. discusses his experiences at ThinkGeek working on and
using Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ, an interface library to RabbitMQ , an open
source message broker that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
(AMQP).

Abstract
Being a Perl Shop is hard sometimes, and as a result you sometimes miss out
on some of the super-awesome third party support that other - some would
say, weaker (but of course we wouldn’t say that, we’re classy) - languages
enjoy. So I had to get my hands dirty. As such, I contributed to the
development of the Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ module so that we at ThinkGeek could
properly integrate our Perl applications with this MQ server.

[ RabbitMQ-example-routing.png  and other pix/links on
http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar]

I will walk you through a very high level of the integration itself, some
of the challenges we faced, and how we overcame them. I’ll also go through
some of the improvements I’ve made as part of the team of people
maintaining the Net::AMQP::RabbitMQ module. BEWARE, however, this talk is
not for the squeamish. There will be guts. perlguts, and they’ll be
everywhere.

About the Speaker
Mike Stemle.jpeg
Mike Stemle, Jr. is a Sr. Software Engineer with more than 16 years of
professional software experience. He’s worked in early social media,
telecom, advertising, e-commerce, and billing. He’s written things as small
as the first ever web message board for farmer.com and other things as big
as billing systems processing more than 100K transactions per hour.

Hailing from Fairfax, VA he fights the good fight along side his good pal,
Timmy, and all of the amazing folks at ThinkGeek, Inc. Mike is naturally
low in cholesterol, and only to be used as directed.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug
Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or
prevent any disease.



​Boilerplate details

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.
PLENTY of FREE Offstreet parking, see directions on the
Wiki http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions

Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

(NOTE: we're Staying in the wider room 376 where we were in summer, not the
squarish 372 we had last winter/spring.)

Future - Spring 2015 (Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT)
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376
Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ROOM: E51-376
​

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

[Bill Ricker]

* Good thing I  sent pre-announce message early this month due to long
weekend​, as Monday message is going out late Monday.*
*​  ​N​ote that 2nd Tuesday is as early as they come this month, and if you
stretch the long weekend, it may be first day back ! *

*Next meeting Tuesday, July 8, E51-37**6*
TOPIC: *Offensive  Defensive Web User Identity*
DATE: July 8
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
ROOM: E51-376
SPEAKER: Zak Zebrowski (via Hangouts)

 *This is a Live talk by a remote speaker, who has given longer versions of
 this talk as industry training.*


This talk looks at web users from a two different perspectives: First, we
look at identifying techniques to determine web user identities from a
server perspective. Second, we will look at obfuscating techniques from a
user whom seeks to be anonymous. Perl techniques will be highlighted.

*Zak Zebrowski* is a MITRE data miner, specializing in forensic database
analysis. He is interested in all things Perl, and enjoys teaching. He
loves being outside when he's not programming.

​*Boilerplate details* ...

 ​
 ​
 Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (
 directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions).
 Talk begins at 7:30.
 Refreshments in the hallway prior.
 RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
 mebill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 3
 ​ (*really 4:30 is ok*) ​
 pm Tuesday.

​

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday after long weekend !

[Bill Ricker]

*I'm sending the Boston Perl Mongers Friday pre-announce message early this
month due to long weekend ... note that 2nd Tuesday is as early as they
come this month, and if you stretch the long weekend, it may be first day
back ! *

*Next meeting Tuesday, July 8, E51-37**6*
TOPIC: *Offensive  Defensive Web User Identity*
DATE: July 8
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
ROOM: E51-376
SPEAKER: Zak Zebrowski (via Hangouts)

*This is a Live talk by a remote speaker, who has given longer versions of
this talk as industry training.*


This talk looks at web users from a two different perspectives: First, we
look at identifying techniques to determine web user identities from a
server perspective. Second, we will look at obfuscating techniques from a
user whom seeks to be anonymous. Perl techniques will be highlighted.

*Zak Zebrowski* is a MITRE data miner, specializing in forensic database
analysis. He is interested in all things Perl, and enjoys teaching. He
loves being outside when he's not programming.

​*Boilerplate details* ...

   - ​
   ​
   Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT (
   directions http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/MIT+Directions).
   - Talk begins at 7:30.
   - Refreshments in the hallway prior.
   - RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com
   mebill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list, by 3
   ​ (*really 4:30 is ok*) ​
   pm Tuesday.

​

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

[Bill Ricker]

Have a speaker, one RSVP, and me so far. Who else is coming?


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:

 *Tuesday, April 9, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm*
 Embedded Perl with Federico

 Federico Lucifredi continues his quest to build a hardware-assisted
 automagic hard-drive wiper, using perl in an embedded device. *Shiny
 hardware! Demo! Code*!

 Location MIT E51-376 
 (MITDirectionshttp://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections)


 Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.

 *note* back in room E51-37*6* this term.
 --

  please RSVP for refreshments.
 
  Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/
 
* Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
  (directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
  Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
  http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
  RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to 
  bill.n1...@gmail.commebill.n1...@gmail.com
  or Boston-PM list, by 3pm Tuesday.




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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Apr 9th, Embedded Perl with Federico, 7, MIT E51-376

[Bill Ricker]

*Tuesday, April 9, 2013, MIT E51-376 7pm-10pm*
Embedded Perl with Federico

Federico Lucifredi continues his quest to build a hardware-assisted
automagic hard-drive wiper, using perl in an embedded device. *Shiny
hardware! Demo! Code*!

Location MIT E51-376
(MITDirectionshttp://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections)


Talk begins at 7:30. Refreshments in the hallway prior.

*note* back in room E51-37*6* this term.
--

 please RSVP for refreshments.

 Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/

   * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
 (directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
   o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
 Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
 http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections
 RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to 
 bill.n1...@gmail.commebill.n1...@gmail.com
 or Boston-PM list, by 3pm Tuesday.

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[Boston.pm-announce] CANCEL Meeting Tuesday

[Bill Ricker]

Having no speaker or topic and having negative replies in the majority
(only one positive), I'm cancelling this month.

Federico has something interesting for probably April.
We need topics / speakers for other times. Please suggest something.

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Nov 8

[Bill Ricker]

Tuesday November 8; 7pm-10pm E51-372

Second Tuesday comes as early as ever this month.

Open topic - bring something to discuss if you can.

Talk begins 7:30.

Note Fall 2011 we stay in the summer room 372, which is adjacent to our
previous customary room.

Our WIKI http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/

  * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
(directions http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ).
  o NOTE - Sometimes the lot has filled early, overflow is to
Hayward lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See alternatives
http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections

RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to me bill.n1...@gmail.com
or Boston-PM list, by 3pm Tuesday.


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday September 13 7pm-10pm MIT

[Bill Ricker]

 Boston.pm meetings are free and open to the public.

*Note* Fall 2011 we stay in the summer room 372, which is adjacent to our
previous customary room.
Next Tech Meeting Tuesday September 13 7pm-10pm E51-372

Perl community news. Also any lightning talks.

Gather socially 7; snack 7:15; presentations start 7:30.

RSVP for count encouraged (for catering reasons) but not required, to me
bill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list.
future datesTuesday October 11; 7pm-10pm E51-372

Sean Quinlan's new module.

Tuesday November 15; 7pm-10pm E51-372 Tuesday December 13, 2011 7pm-10pm
E51-372
Email me if you have a topic ...

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[Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting Tuesday, Nov 9, 7pm

[Uri Guttman]

hi all,

this month's tech meeting has been converted to a social meeting. it
will be tomorrow night, tuesday nov 9 at 7pm at the flatbread company in
davis sq. this is a great wood fired pizza place inside a bowling
(candlepins) alley (sacco bowl). it is on day st opposite the large
parking lot.  note that somerville meters run to 8pm and are $1/hr so
bring quarters and meter up! it is also on the red line.

rsvp to me offlist if you are coming. we have about 6 so far and we need
10 to make a solid reservation. i am sure more of you are coming but
haven't told me yet. walkins will be welcome but we will have tables set
up for the reservation count so let me know!

below is info on the place.

thanx,

uri


http://www.flatbreadcompany.com/2007Home.htm
http://www.flatbreadcompany.com/2007Menu.htm

45 Day St.
Somerville, MA 02144
617-776-0552



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[Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting Tuesday, Nov 9

[Ronald J Kimball]

(Forwarded from the main list.  To RSVP, email Uri at u...@stemsystems.com.)

- Forwarded message from Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com -

 BR == Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com writes:

  BR Uri - Make it so. - B

as ordered by our permanent temporary fearless leader and as the
socialist czar of boston.pm i will carry out my orders.

ok, we are having a social meeting this coming tuesday, nov 9 at 7pm

it will be at the flatbread company on day st. in davis sq. inside sacco
bowl. easy to get to on the red line and a large parking lot is across
the street. note that somerville meters run to 8pm and are $1/hr so
bring quarters and meter up!

google for 'flatbread davis sq' and you will get plenty of info and
reviews of this place. i thought it was very good and interesting. they
have a good beer selection too.

http://www.flatbreadcompany.com/2007Home.htm
http://www.flatbreadcompany.com/2007Menu.htm

45 Day St.
Somerville, MA 02144
617-776-0552

i called and we have a penciled in reservation. they require 10 for a
real reservation where they setup tables for us. so i need a head count
asap. reply to me off list if you are going to attend. i will be calling
in a 'final' count on monday or tuesday afternoon.

candlepin bowling is optional!

thanx,

uri

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting, Tuesday, April 8, at MIT

[Ronald J Kimball]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:02:35PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
 Boston.pm will have a tech meeting on Tuesday, April 8, at MIT,
 in building E51, room TBA* (directions below), starting at 7:15pm.
 
 * I am still waiting on room confirmation from MIT.  I've been told that
   I'll have it tomorrow afternoon.
 

Literally as soon as I finished sending the announcement, I had the room
confirmation.  We will be in E51-376, our usual room.

Ronald
 
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[Boston.pm-announce] Social Meeting, Tuesday, Nov 13, at Boston Beer Works

[Ronald J Kimball]

Instead of our usual tech meeting, Boston.pm will have a social meeting
this coming Tuesday, November 13, at Boston Beer Works at Fenway.  We'll
start at 7:30 and end when everybody leaves.

Boston Beer Works
61 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Opposite Fenway Park

http://www.beerworks.net/


Also, Lindsay and Lori from JohnGalt Staffing will be there, and they've
offered to buy us a round of beers.  (JohnGalt staffing is a technical
recruiting firm that is looking for talented Perl programmers to fill
positions with its clients.  http://www.j-galt.com/)


RSVP to me if you're planning to attend - rjk-bostonpm(at)tamias.net.


Ronald


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday, July 10, at MIT

[Ronald J Kimball]

Boston.pm will have a tech meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, July 10, at MIT,
in building E51, room 372 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm.

(E51-372 is next to our usual room, E51-376, which was already booked.)


Kee Hinckley will be presenting:

  Object Oriented Design on the Fly - OR- Programming Without a Net
  It's the wrong way to work, but what techniques can you use to build a
  reusable object framework when the schedule gives you no time to design
  one up front?


RSVP to me if you're planning to attend - rjk-bostonpm(at)tamias.net.
(Also, if you can bring a laptop with wireless connectivity, let me know.
My laptop is still shut out of the MIT network.)


Pizza and soda for this meeting will be sponsored by Cambridge Interactive
Development Corp.  Thanks CIDC!


Ronald


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our mailing lists, visit our website at http://boston.pm.org/


Directions to MIT, Building E51:

Building E51 (the Tang Center) is located at the corners of Amherst and
Wadsworth Streets in Cambridge.

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e51

Directions by T:

Take the Red Line to Kendall.  Building E51 is right around the corner from
the T stop.  From the Inbound side, facing into Main Street, turn right
(toward Boston) and walk down the block.  Turn right on Wadsworth Street
and walk to the corner of Amherst Street.  Building E51 is the building
across the street directly in front of you with the metal canopy.

Directions by Car:

General directions provided by MIT:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions

The Boston Linux and Unix user group also meets at E51, so you may find
their directions helpful as well (keeping in mind that we will be meeting
in room 372, not room 315):

http://www.blu.org/directions/mit/e51-315.php

Parking Information:

MIT's Amherst Street Lot is adjacent to the building:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P4Parking=go

Officially, a sticker is required to park in the lot.  However, we've been
told unofficially that there is no enforcement after 3pm weekdays, nor on
the weekends.  Chances are very slim that cars will be ticketed.
Nonetheless, parking in the lot is at your own risk.
 
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday, September 12, at MIT

[Ronald J Kimball]

Boston.pm will have a tech meeting next Tuesday, September 12, at MIT, in
building E51, room 376 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm.


Jeff Barr, Amazon's Senior Evangelist for Web Services, will be talking to
us about Amazon Web Services.  He will relay current Web Services trends
and new product launches from AWS, and show some examples of what
developers are doing with these technologies.


RSVP to me if you're planning to attend - rjk-bostonpm(at)tamias.net.


Pizza and soda will be provided.


Ronald


For more information about Boston Perl Mongers, or to subscribe to one of
our mailing lists, visit our website at http://boston.pm.org/


Directions to MIT, Building E51:

Building E51 (the Tang Center) is located at the corners of Amherst and
Wadsworth Streets in Cambridge.

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e51

Directions by T:

Take the Red Line to Kendall.  Building E51 is right around the corner from
the T stop.  From the Inbound side, facing into Main Street, turn right
(toward Boston) and walk down the block.  Turn right on Wadsworth Street
and walk to the corner of Amherst Street.  Building E51 is the building
across the street directly in front of you with the metal canopy.

Directions by Car:

General directions provided by MIT:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions

The Boston Linux and Unix user group also meets at E51, so you may find
their directions helpful as well (keeping in mind that we will be meeting
in room 376, not room 315):

http://www.blu.org/directions/mit/e51-315.php

Parking Information:

MIT's Amherst Street Lot is adjacent to the building:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P4Parking=go

Officially, a sticker is required to park in the lot.  However, we've been
told unofficially that there is no enforcement after 3pm weekdays, nor on
the weekends.  Chances are very slim that cars will be ticketed.
Nonetheless, parking in the lot is at your own risk.
 
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday, July 11, at MIT

[Ronald J Kimball]

Boston.pm will have a tech meeting next Tuesday, July 11, at MIT, in
building E51, room 376 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm.


Audrey Tang, who is visiting Boston for a post-YAPC hackathon, will be
giving her Deploying Perl 6 talk from YAPC.  Here's the synopsis from the
YAPC Chicago website:

  Deploying Perl 6

  With the advent of v6.pm, we can write use v6-pugs;, start coding in
  Perl 6, and deploy it as part of a Perl 5 application, without any extra
  dependencies such as Haskell, Parrot, or even C compilers.
  
  This talk will discuss typical deployment scenarios, emphasizing on the
  strength of Perl 6's deployment model:
  
* Automatic dependency analysis, so upgrading CPAN modules will no
  longer break programs mysteriously.
* Multiversioning, allowing the use of multiple versions of the same
  module on the system.
* Module and function interfaces that enables more robust and
  self-documenting programs.
* Cross-platform bytecode, resulting in faster loading time and
  cross-compilation opportunity to e.g. client-side JavaScript.
  
  Moreover, we will present recipes for reusing Perl 5 modules in Perl 6
  programs and vice versa.


We'll probably also hear Audrey's ppencode lightning talk.


Also, thanks go to Mitchell Charity for contacting the hackathon
participants and finding us a speaker for this meeting!


RSVP to me if you're planning to attend - rjk-bostonpm(at)tamias.net.


Pizza and soda will be provided.


Ronald


For more information about Boston Perl Mongers, or to subscribe to one of
our mailing lists, visit our website at http://boston.pm.org/


Directions to MIT, Building E51:

Building E51 (the Tang Center) is located at the corners of Amherst and
Wadsworth Streets in Cambridge.

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e51

Directions by T:

Take the Red Line to Kendall.  Building E51 is right around the corner from
the T stop.  From the Inbound side, facing into Main Street, turn right
(toward Boston) and walk down the block.  Turn right on Wadsworth Street
and walk to the corner of Amherst Street.  Building E51 is the building
across the street directly in front of you with the metal canopy.

Directions by Car:

General directions provided by MIT:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions

The Boston Linux and Unix user group also meets at E51, so you may find
their directions helpful as well (keeping in mind that we will be meeting
in room 376, not room 315):

http://www.blu.org/directions/mit/e51-315.php

Parking Information:

MIT's Amherst Street Lot is adjacent to the building:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P4Parking=go

Officially, a sticker is required to park in the lot.  However, we've been
told unofficially that there is no enforcement after 3pm weekdays, nor on
the weekends.  Chances are very slim that cars will be ticketed.
Nonetheless, parking in the lot is at your own risk.
 
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday, May 9, at MIT

[Ronald J Kimball]

Boston.pm will have a tech meeting on Tuesday, May 9, at MIT, in
building E51, room 376 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm.


It's short notice again, but fortunately I already have one talk
planned...  I'm going to dissect a script posted to FunWithPerl list by
Ilmari Karonen - it solves Sudoku puzzles using a regular expression!


If you'd like to give a talk at this meeting, please me email me ASAP.


RSVP to me if you're planning to attend - rjk-bostonpm(at)tamias.net.


Pizza and soda will be provided.


Ronald


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Directions to MIT, Building E51:

Building E51 (the Tang Center) is located at the corners of Amherst and
Wadsworth Streets in Cambridge.

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e51

Directions by T:

Take the Red Line to Kendall.  Building E51 is right around the corner from
the T stop.  From the Inbound side, facing into Main Street, turn right
(toward Boston) and walk down the block.  Turn right on Wadsworth Street
and walk to the corner of Amherst Street.  Building E51 is the building
across the street directly in front of you with the metal canopy.

Directions by Car:

General directions provided by MIT:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions

The Boston Linux and Unix user group also meets at E51, so you may find
their directions helpful as well (keeping in mind that we will be meeting
in room 376, not room 315):

http://www.blu.org/directions/mit/e51-315.php

Parking Information:

MIT's Amherst Street Lot is adjacent to the building:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P4Parking=go

Officially, a sticker is required to park in the lot.  However, we've been
told unofficially that there is no enforcement after 3pm weekdays, nor on
the weekends.  Chances are very slim that cars will be ticketed.
Nonetheless, parking in the lot is at your own risk.
 
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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday, April 11, at MIT

[Ronald J Kimball]

I forgot to mention that Boston.pm member Greg London has offered to
provided the refreshments for this month's meeting.

Greg recently wrote a new book, Bounty Hunters: Metaphors for Fair
Intellectual Property Laws.  http://www.greglondon.com/bountyhunters/

Ronald
 
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday, January 8 with brian d foy

[Ronald J Kimball]

This is a pre-announcement of Boston.pm's tech meeting on Tuesday, February
8th.  Location and time to be announced; most likely somewhere at BU.

brian will be giving his talk on Automating Software Releases.
http://www.panix.com/~comdog/#talks

A full announcement will be posted once we have all the details.


Ronald
 
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