Re: Technical Meeting - 21st June

2001-06-19 Thread Leo Lapworth
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 07:15:32PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Oh... er... it's only three days to the technical meeting and so far I don't seem to have any talks for it. Thursday.. what, this thursday where does the time go. Assuming I can make it (have to check something), I'll give a little

Re: Technical Meeting - 21st June

2001-06-19 Thread Piers Cawley
Leo Lapworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 07:15:32PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Oh... er... it's only three days to the technical meeting and so far I don't seem to have any talks for it. Thursday.. what, this thursday where does the time go. Assuming I can make

Re: Technical Meeting - 21st June

2001-06-19 Thread Redvers Davies
Oh... er... it's only three days to the technical meeting and so far I don't seem to have any talks for it. Err, I have to produce 3 hours of material so I don't think that the technical meeting would be the right place for it. Apart from that it isn't finished yet. If there is another

Technical Meeting - 21st June

2001-06-18 Thread Dave Cross
Oh... er... it's only three days to the technical meeting and so far I don't seem to have any talks for it. I'll write my Perl for the People talk tonight and give that, and I think that Robin wanted to do something. There must be others out there who want to practice talks that they'll

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone please remind me about the technical meeting on the 21st? Now that it looks like I might be in London at the time, I find I've deleted all

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:40:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and the drinks cabinet. -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:26:08 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:10:01PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Well, er..., there will be a meeting on the 21st. I spoke to Alex last night and he said we could hold it at

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:18:43PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Leon Brocard wrote: Registration might happen pretty soon too. Ooh, goody. People at work (who fortunately will be paying for me to go to yapc::Europe again this year) have said they'll want to start to get down details. Probably better to book hotel, travel, etc. *after* I register for the

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-10 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether: I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-09 Thread Redvers Davies
We'll start at about 7pm and people will be practiving TPC and YAPC::E talks. I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the list will be published. [1] Red

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:23:32AM +, Redvers Davies wrote: I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the list will be published. [1] I had an e-mail from Ann Barcomb yesterday saying that my

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether: I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the list will be published. [1] Speakers will be told Real Soon Now. Registration might happen

Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Can someone please remind me about the technical meeting on the 21st? Now that it looks like I might be in London at the time, I find I've deleted all the relevant messages and can't remember if there's an archive. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... You're in a maze of twisty

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-08 Thread Dave Cross
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone please remind me about the technical meeting on the 21st? Now that it looks like I might be in London at the time, I find I've deleted all the relevant messages and can't remember if there's

Re: NWS (was Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April)

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Fowler
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Struan Donald wrote: * at 17/04 14:00 +0200 Philip Newton said: Mark Fowler wrote: 3) Write a set of scripts that are all basically the same but have different #!/usr/bin/perl lines on the top and tell you the with a bunch of different extensions such as .pl

Re: NWS (was Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April)

2001-04-17 Thread Struan Donald
* at 17/04 14:09 +0100 Mark Fowler said: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Struan Donald wrote: surely there should be a better way than this? after all the combinations involved are quite numerous. is the notion of something that does : #!/bin/sh if [ -e /usr/bin/perl ]; then exec

Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-04-12 Thread dcross - David Cross
Here's the agenda(!) for the technical meeting on 19th April (a week today) at State 51. Committee Reports: T-Shirt Committee Server Committee Canel Visitation Committee Lightning Talks: Not Matt's Scripts/TT Views - Mark Why Perl Advocacy is Bad - Dave Talks: "101 fun things

Re: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-04-12 Thread Dean
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:15:13AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Committee Reports: Canel Visitation Committee ^ God we're going down market... ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

RE: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-04-12 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:20 AM On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:15:13AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Committee Reports: Canel Visitation Committee ^ God we're going down market... ;) You didn't think I'd actually have anything to report on

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-11 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: As usual I'll aim at having four or five lightning talks and two or three longer talks. I could do a lightening talk on playing around with skinning stuff with Template Toolkit's brand spanking new VIEW directive. This would be very quick as

NWS (was Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April)

2001-04-11 Thread Struan Donald
* at 11/04 08:28 +0100 Mark Fowler said: On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: snip I'll also be able to give a quick status update on the website for NMS (probably at the same time as I'll be using it as my example) what is the status of the NMS thing. i'm liable to have some

Re: NWS (was Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April)

2001-04-11 Thread jo walsh
4) Install Apache::Template, Bundle-XML, Template Toolkit 2.02 on penderel I think this has already been mostly done, but I could be wrong. after much grappling with CPAN shell trying to upgrade us to 5.6.1, this is all done now, though a couple of newer versions of XML modules - not the

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Marcel Grunauer
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: nowhere we might be tempted to sit by the thames till the wee small hours generating tremendous hangovers :) "sit"? IIRC, you tried to lean against a bench but unfortunately were standing between two benches, landing on the

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Cross wrote: I understood that you had delegated the actual work to someone else. Can you ensure that your vice-chair is able to speak in your place. Umm. Ok. Somebody give me the designs and I'll get them printed. Talk over. Or am I missing something?

RE: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:17 AM Dave Cross wrote: I understood that you had delegated the actual work to someone else. Can you ensure that your vice-chair is able to speak in your place. Umm. Ok. Somebody give me the designs and I'll

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Struan Donald
* at 10/04 09:15 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: * Marcel Grunauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: nowhere we might be tempted to sit by the thames till the wee small hours generating tremendous hangovers :) "sit"? IIRC, you

RE: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:19 AM might be nice to have status reports from: * The t-shirt committee What is the design that you have agreed on? I will probably want one. There are five. So you'll probably want somewhere between one and five

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Piers Cawley
jo walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for us, but I can't remember who they were. This is your opportunity to step forward. i recall promising to do 20 minutes on '101 fun things to do with Tangram', or something like

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Simon Wistow
Neil Ford wrote: Do we need to dig up the original meeting notes regarding .pm/colour combinations or is Simon to 'wing it'? Got em, cheers.

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Leon Brocard
dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether: Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for us, Righto, I'd like to do talks on the following subjects: o Creating an optimising compiler and interpreter for a toy language o More Graphing Perl

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:04:07AM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: Do we need to dig up the original meeting notes regarding .pm/colour combinations or is Simon to 'wing it'? I forwarded it to him, along with the designs that Paul did. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: I shall proceed from here whence forth unto smack Mr Cantrell until he doth giveth over the designs. Hither-unto. And heretowards. Can we all join in?

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Robin Houston
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: As usual I'll aim at having four or five lightning talks and two or three longer talks. I'd like to give a (preferably "longer") talk about parsing and semantic transformation of Perl code. I promise to think of a less scary

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:31:11PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: At 22:10 09/04/2001, Neil Ford wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: If anyone doesn't know (or has forgotten), there will be a technical meeting on Thursday 19th April

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread Struan Donald
* at 09/04 16:09 +0100 dcross - David Cross said: snip/ p.s Next social meeting is on Thur 3rd May. Suggestions for venues would be most welcome. nowhere we might be tempted to sit by the thames till the wee small hours generating tremendous hangovers :) struan

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread alex
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for us, but I can't remember who they were. This is your opportunity to step forward. i'll do some more music for a bit. alex -- here they come lalalalala la lalalalala la

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread jo walsh
Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for us, but I can't remember who they were. This is your opportunity to step forward. i recall promising to do 20 minutes on '101 fun things to do with Tangram', or something like that. am still happy to do this, but also

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: might be nice to have status reports from: * The t-shirt committee There has been movement on this! I, however, will not be able to attend cos I have a visitor from the darker regions of the galaxy. -- David Cantrell |

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread Dave Cross
At 19:16 09/04/2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: might be nice to have status reports from: * The t-shirt committee There has been movement on this! I, however, will not be able to attend cos I have a visitor from the darker

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread Neil Ford
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: If anyone doesn't know (or has forgotten), there will be a technical meeting on Thursday 19th April. It will be at State 51[1] and we'll start at about 7pm. Details on how to get to State 51 will appear on the web site

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread Dave Cross
At 22:10 09/04/2001, Neil Ford wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: If anyone doesn't know (or has forgotten), there will be a technical meeting on Thursday 19th April. It will be at State 51[1] and we'll start at about 7pm. Details on how to get

Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread dcross - David Cross
If anyone doesn't know (or has forgotten), there will be a technical meeting on Thursday 19th April. It will be at State 51[1] and we'll start at about 7pm. Details on how to get to State 51 will appear on the web site... er... soon. Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-03-10 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The next meeting is on Thursday 5th April and the next technical meeting is Thursday 19th April. Suggestions for venues for both are welcomed. i think some little birdie told me dean was booking the cittie of yorke (or however you spell it), Greg

Technical Meeting

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Cross
Just a quick reminder that there will be _no_ technical meeting next Thursday. We've seen far too much of each other and it wouldn't be healthy :) The next meeting is on Thursday 5th April and the next technical meeting is Thursday 19th April. Suggestions for venues for both are welcomed

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-13 Thread Matthew Robinson
[ Editors note I have changed the attachment its contents can be found at http://www.gellyfi.sh/stuff/torridirections.pdf /J\ ] Here you go, directions to Torrington. The address is: Torrington Interactive 2 Printing House Yard London E2 7PR Printing House Yard is on the junction of Old

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread Neil Ford
I'm assuming that Matt won't want to talk for the _whole_ evening :) So anyone got a short talk they want to give as a support act? Cheers, Dave... Related question: What kit are we going to need for this? (projector, etc.). Also what kit are we going to need for Damian's talk? (projector,

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:59:55 +, Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming that Matt won't want to talk for the _whole_ evening :) So anyone got a short talk they want to give as a support act? Cheers, Dave... Related question: What kit are we going to need for this?

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:17:14 +, Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [kit for Damian's talk] I'll be able to answer that better after I've visited tomorrow. I strongly suspect that we'll be asking to borrow you prjector again tho' Neil. Shall I come along tomorrow? If you have the

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread Neil Ford
At Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:25:34 +, Matthew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kit are we going to need for this? (projector, etc.). I assume we'll need the usual. Projecter, Screen (or white wall!), net connectivity. Can someone at Torrington please confirm which of that list

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread Matthew Robinson
At 10:31 12/02/01 -0500, you wrote: At Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:25:34 +, Matthew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kit are we going to need for this? (projector, etc.). I assume we'll need the usual. Projecter, Screen (or white wall!), net connectivity. Can someone at Torrington

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:59:55AM +, Neil Ford wrote: Also what kit are we going to need for Damian's talk? (projector, PA, wireless microphones?) FWIW, damian has (IIRC) requested a vga connection for ny. (will try to remember to confirm this at some point...) Your best bet is to

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Cross
At 21:04 12/02/2001, Neil Ford wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:59:55AM +, Neil Ford wrote: Also what kit are we going to need for Damian's talk? (projector, PA, wireless microphones?) FWIW, damian has (IIRC) requested a vga connection for ny. (will try to remember to confirm this at

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:17:54PM +, Dave Cross wrote: And isn't the VGA connection a requirement for the projector? Or the laptop? Or something other than the room itself? My assumption is that that describes what is needed to connect the projector and laptop. I just had him talk to

Re: Technical Meeting 22nd Feb

2001-02-12 Thread Neil Ford
At 21:04 12/02/2001, Neil Ford wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:59:55AM +, Neil Ford wrote: Also what kit are we going to need for Damian's talk? (projector, PA, wireless microphones?) FWIW, damian has (IIRC) requested a vga connection for ny. (will try to remember to confirm this

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-07 Thread Merijn Broeren
Quoting Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It would be spectacularly appropriate :) I agree :-) I can't remember exactly what the email I got from them said, but they were _far_ cheaper than the Commonwealth Institute (which I also investigated). There was a larger room for ~500 and a

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-07 Thread Dave Cross
At Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:49:17 +0100, Merijn Broeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can jot me down for a personal sponsorship of £50. No way I can get a corporate sponsorship in time. Most kind. Thank you. Once again we see the awesome power of the Perl communities bottomless pockets :) I've

RE: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-07 Thread Dave Cross
At 14:24 06/02/2001, Clyne, Richard wrote: If it was at Conway Hall could PC Bookshop be persuaded to sponsor it - after all they are very local. That's a very interesting idea, but I think we have plenty of private sponsors to raise the money for the Conway Hall. Cheers, Dave... --

Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Cross
I've been investigating places to hold Damian's meeting and I've already got some interesting leads (the Conway Hall looks like it might well work out!) The problem with moving from a room in someone's office to a 'real' meeting room is that we'll probably have to pay for it. I'm therefore

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Robin Houston
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:29:53AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: I've been investigating places to hold Damian's meeting and I've already got some interesting leads (the Conway Hall looks like it might well work out!) Conway Hall would be a great venue, for the name alone! It can't be too

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Cross
At Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:12:24 +, Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:29:53AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: I've been investigating places to hold Damian's meeting and I've already got some interesting leads (the Conway Hall looks like it might well work out!)

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Mynott
Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:29:53AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: I've been investigating places to hold Damian's meeting and I've already got some interesting leads (the Conway Hall looks like it might well work out!) Conway Hall would be a great

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Robin Houston wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:29:53AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: I've been investigating places to hold Damian's meeting and I've already got some interesting leads (the Conway Hall looks like it might well work out!) Conway Hall would be a great

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On 6 Feb 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: It was Piers that started posting to the wrong list guv honest ... /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe | http://www.gellyfish.com | I'm with Grep on this one http://www.tackleway.co.uk |

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Cross
At 22:26 06/02/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: Oi! Davorg! stop posting to the wrong list and confusing everyone :) You're the third person to point this out to me - and it wasn't me who started it. The culprit has been identified and told off :) Dave... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ICQ: 34465585]

Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship

2001-02-06 Thread Piers Cawley
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 22:26 06/02/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: Oi! Davorg! stop posting to the wrong list and confusing everyone :) You're the third person to point this out to me - and it wasn't me who started it. The culprit has been identified and told off :) I'm

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-30 Thread Simon Wistow
Matthew Jones wrote: So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? For the love of God NO! Every time you're down in This I end up the next morning feeling fragile wearing nothing but a traffic

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Philip Newton
Mark Fowler wrote: [2] Bath.pm roots showing. We used to discuss a fair amount of technical (but not necessary perl related) stuff. From this, I quickly progressed into the well rounded perl programmer I am today Is that "well rounded perl programmer" in the sense that "grep is well

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jones
Speaking from a personal standpoint, I really enjoy the technical meetings and think more of them would be really beneficial[2]. I think they represent a lot of what we are us to and show that we're all not just talk 'n booze. Hence I'm anxious to see them succeed. I'd like to be able to

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:27:41 -, Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? We'd be very happy for you to come along whenever you wanted to.

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Stevens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:41:38PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: i assume odd beer is a typo and you mean't odd beers, i.e. an odd number of beers ( i've also decided that 1 is not an odd number ) seriously, i'm sure everyone would welcome you with open arms We are perl. you will be

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:28:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:27:41PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? You will, of

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:54:26PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. Greg (who was surfing for flats in

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Rob Partington
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. 'eyup! My uncle used to race greyhounds and whippets (and pigeons!) and I have a flat cap. But I

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jones
the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. Eeeh, lad, 'appen tha's f'gottent' pigeon-fancying[1] and breakfasts consisting entirely of clotted

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:54:26 +, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me AOL/ One of the big plus points for this jobs was that it was on the right (i.e. south) side of the

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Simon Wistow
Matthew Jones wrote: Dave is sitting in his living room, leafing through his back issues of "Canned Food and Preserved Rations Monthly". Wrong Dave. More like "Dave is lounging casually in his Chippendale, stroking his gold plated cat and having his feet massaged by a minion. Another lackey

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:28:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:27:41PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? You will, of

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:57:00PM +, Chris Benson wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:48:33PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: I'm from Birmingham damnit[0], which though north of the M25, is nowhere near as grim as proper up north. Oi! where you calling grim

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 January 2001 15:34 just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-) Bit tricky that. What with us living in a house and all that. We have seagulls on our

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 January 2001 15:34 just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-) Bit tricky that. What with us

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-27 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Doesn't bi-monthly mean every tw months? yes, and if there is any doubt, i recommend looking up ``bi'' on your favourite search engine ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-26 Thread Natalie Ford
At 23:11 26/01/01, you wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote: How do people feel about going back to State51? Does someone want to contact the ICA? Hmm. No one seems to have replied to this[1]. [1] ? I have replied to this, off list, because the preferences I expressed were

Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-25 Thread Dave Cross
I'm still looking for suggestions for venues for the next two technical meetings (Feb 22 26). How do people feel about going back to State51? Does someone want to contact the ICA? Any other suggestions? Dave...

Re: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-12 Thread Jo Walsh
Venue: State 51 (full details - and a map? - to follow) State51 is in a disused foam factory at 8-10 rhoda street, bethnal green, near the junction of brick lane and bethnal green road. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=533817Y=182479A=YZ=1 tube shoreditch (but closes early),

RE: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-12 Thread Jo Walsh
i could do 5 mins on what fun it is to build a perl jobs database with tangram and template toolkit. (it's in testing atm) if you like. That would be cool. Do you want to publicise the URL or is it a Big Secret? i will do that when it is not not quite finished. like what it is now :) jo

Re: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-12 Thread Piers Cawley
dcross - David Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Jo Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2001 12:18 Venue: State 51 (full details - and a map? - to follow) State51 is in a disused foam factory at 8-10 rhoda street, bethnal green,near the junction of brick lane and bethnal

Re: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: We'll start with four or five lightning talks. Currently I've only got Robin talking about Oulipo, but I'm sure we can come up with a couple more between us. I'd like to do: "What my Perl Monger World Map Lightning Talk at yapc::Europe

Re: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-11 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: XML::Schema - Andy can we finish this with some sort of SIG meeting on XML::Scheme seeing as its all just ideas in the fevoured mind of Mr Wardley so far, i'm sure there are the usual suspect who'd like to vent their own opinions Hopefully it'll

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-08 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 5, 1:35pm, Neil Ford wrote: Double dose of Andy Alex (abw get's to drink cold beer) More Andy Piers to close. That's OK by me, but I don't want to trample over anyone else who'd like to speak. How about I do a 20 minute session on Pod::POM and TT views, take a break while Alex

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:07:01AM +, alex typed: [better instructions soon, but it takes up most of rhoda street, bethnal green, nearest tubes are old street, shoreditch, liverpool street and bethnal green, or closest of all, bus route number 8] Oh dear oh dear oh dear... that's

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 4, 10:18pm, Dave Cross wrote: As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know. Take your pick: Template Toolkit Views A new and icy cold metaphor for the Template Toolkit which makes

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know. i can do 20 minutes on SOAP (not 20 mins squeezed into 5) ;-) -- Greg McCarroll

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Neil Ford
On Jan 4, 10:18pm, Dave Cross wrote: As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know. Take your pick: Template Toolkit Views A new and icy cold metaphor for the Template Toolkit which

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 5, 11:46am, Neil Ford wrote: Save having to swap laptops with the projector and Dave wouldn't have to time the lightening talks. But then when would I get to drink cold beer? :-) A -- Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. [EMAIL

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:21:14PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote: -Original Message- XML::Schema XML::Schema will rule the world XML::Schema gets my vote Mine too. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to

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