From kake at earth.li Tue Nov 4 12:56:08 2008 From: kake at earth.li (Kake L Pugh) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:56:08 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] November social - Edgar Wallace, WC2 - Thurs 6 Nov Message-ID: <20081104125608.GA12143@the.earth.li> Hello! The November social of the London Perlmongers is a mere two days away. I hope you are all excited. This month, we're going back to the Edgar Wallace, where we have the upstairs function room booked from 6:30pm. The Edgar Wallace has eight handpumps and its own house beer, and serves decent food at reasonable prices. It's very close to Temple Station on the District and Circle lines, but it's also walkable from several other stations including Chancery Lane (Central Line) and Holborn (Central and Piccadilly). Maps, more info, etc: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Edgar_Wallace,_WC2R_3JF Standard blurb: Social meets are a chance for the various members of the group to meet up face to face and chat with each other about things - both Perl and non-Perl - and newcomers are more than welcome. The monthly meets tend to be bigger than the other ad hoc meetings that take place at other times, and we make sure that they're in easy to get to locations and the pub serves food (meaning that people can eat in the bar if they want to). They normally start around 6.30pm (or whenever people get there after work) and a group tends to be left come closing time. If you're a newcomer or other first timer (even if you've been lurking on the mailing list or on IRC) then please seek Greg out - we have a tradition that the leader of this motley crew buys the new people a drink (alcoholic or not, either's fine) and introduces them to people. From mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk Tue Nov 4 14:20:16 2008 From: mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk (Mark Keating) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:20:16 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] Ye Olde Perl[e] Mo[u]ngeurs Of Londinium Worshoppe Schedule of Events Message-ID: <49105A20.3060609@shadowcatsystems.co.uk> Hear ye. Hear ye. To all Mo[u]guers Perl[e], to my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, to all denziens throughout the lands of faire Albion, upon whose shores waves of grace are blessed, I give thee pause to taketh note. At this location, upon this time, and at a place well suited to thee for communication oft, and with, internets blessed, thou canst find the [proposed] Schedule of Events, for the Workshoppe of Londinium to be held on Saturday, the twenty-ninth day of November in this year of our Lord two thousand and eight. Thy attention is turneth to: http://www.markkeating.me.uk/lpw2008/Schedule.pdf If thou wisheth to raise a concern then at thy pleasure, though perhaps to some otherwise non dream't of consternation, address they words to mdk(at)shadowcat.co.uk, where no doubt they shall be read upon, remarketh upon and then shredded and fed to a cat.[1] If thou seeketh to complain then simply follow these three steps: First: writeth thy complaint on finest Egyptium Vellum using a quill from the Scottish Sea eagle in thine own blood, affixing a seal made from gristle of your own flesh. Second: Assign one of thy lesser servants to tarry to Lord Gregory (head of l.pm)[2] and seeketh from him the secret addresses wherein the dark masters who control the secret writings of Perl[e] dwell. Third: Stuff they complaint down the throat of a freshly slaughtered goat and cast it upon the sacrificial pyre while recounting sixteen of thy favourite memes backwards into a mirror. Thy complaint shouldst then reach the correct Seraphim who shalt wing it to its rightful home. Thy thanks as always shower me with much greatness. Mark [1] I will of course read them and do all I can to aid, and/or assist your query. [2] Please don't really bother Greg, well not until the day of the conference at least, and then only after he has quaffed at least five fine ales. -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) | Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director | Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary | Enlightened Perl Organisation http://www.shadowcat.co.uk | http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating | 'Sufficiently Advanced Technology' From mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk Wed Nov 5 11:41:22 2008 From: mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk (Mark Keating) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:41:22 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] LPW2008: Call for Volunteers Message-ID: <49118662.60100@shadowcatsystems.co.uk> Dear Perl Mo[u]nguers, This London Perl Workshop, like so many previos years Perl Workshops relies upon a healthy team of volunteers, both tall and short, wide and thin, up and down and in and out, with no exception. Therefore if you would like to participate in this magnificent event by profferring a little of your time it would be much appreciated. The basic requirement is a willingness to be subjected to totaliatrian rule with little reward...I mean of course to fun, laughter, skiing in Kloisters and bathing in Monaco...tbh it will mostly involving herding speakers and helping them to set up - so some people with technical experience of computers ( \o/ ) would be appreciated (which is all of you, I think). Please contact mdk(a)shadowcat.co.uk if you'd like to help, in fact even if you wouldn't like to help lets go for it anyway. On a secondary note, it would be nice if we could video as many of the talks as possible for YAPC TV, I am sure that amongst us we know enough budding Luc Besson's who have a passion for video-ing. If this just means we get enough 'loans' of video recorders and people willing to spend a few hours capturing/compressing and getting it to the YAPC TVers then that'd be excellent. Again email me at the above address and I will attempt to sort out what levels of equipment we have and division the labour amongst the many, many of you who will volunteer. Regards Mark -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) | Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director | Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary | Enlightened Perl Organisation http://www.shadowcat.co.uk | http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating | 'Sufficiently Advanced Technology' From lists at frasco.org.uk Thu Nov 6 18:05:19 2008 From: lists at frasco.org.uk (Frank Scott) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:05:19 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 Message-ID: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> Hi, It's that time of year again!. Is anyone going to FOSDEM?. Since it's on the 6th - 8th, does anyone have any idea of the weather at that time of year? Frank (searching for his thermals) -- .^. .''`. /V\ : ;` : Frank Scott Sutton, London /( )\ `. ''` ^^ ^^ `- From social at eco.li Thu Nov 6 22:59:13 2008 From: social at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:59:13 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> Message-ID: <20081106225913.GB7083@hades.eco.li> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:05:19PM +0000, Frank Scott wrote: > Hi, > > It's that time of year again!. Is anyone going to FOSDEM?. Since it's on > the 6th - 8th, does anyone have any idea of the weather at that time of > year? I'm going to FOSDEM. Will probably go Friday - Monday this year. Start of February, it's likely to be fairly cold, so pack some thermals. Dan -- Chicken Little was right. From sanelson at gmail.com Thu Nov 6 23:02:09 2008 From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:02:09 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: <20081106225913.GB7083@hades.eco.li> References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <20081106225913.GB7083@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: On 11/6/08, Dan Kolb wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:05:19PM +0000, Frank Scott wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's that time of year again!. Is anyone going to FOSDEM?. Since it's on > > the 6th - 8th, does anyone have any idea of the weather at that time of > > year? > > > I'm going to FOSDEM. Will probably go Friday - Monday this year. Start > of February, it's likely to be fairly cold, so pack some thermals. We'll be going, possibly with a very tiny girl (2 months old) so taking it in turns to look after her! S. From caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com Thu Nov 6 23:05:45 2008 From: caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com (Caroline Ford) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:05:45 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <20081106225913.GB7083@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: 2008/11/6 Stephen Nelson-Smith : > On 11/6/08, Dan Kolb wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:05:19PM +0000, Frank Scott wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > It's that time of year again!. Is anyone going to FOSDEM?. Since it's on >> > the 6th - 8th, does anyone have any idea of the weather at that time of >> > year? >> >> >> I'm going to FOSDEM. Will probably go Friday - Monday this year. Start >> of February, it's likely to be fairly cold, so pack some thermals. > > We'll be going, possibly with a very tiny girl (2 months old) so > taking it in turns to look after her! If I'm still working I'd love to go to my first FOSDEM, although I'd be antisocial and attend talks and stuff ;) Caroline From mail-lists at karan.org Thu Nov 6 23:26:37 2008 From: mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:26:37 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> Message-ID: <49137D2D.2080900@karan.org> Frank Scott wrote: > It's that time of year again!. Is anyone going to FOSDEM?. Since it's on > the 6th - 8th, does anyone have any idea of the weather at that time of > year? I will not be going this year. And yes, its going to be very cold! I recall being there in early feb a few years back and remembering it being around 0 most of the time day/night. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq From stevengoodwin at gmail.com Fri Nov 7 08:53:56 2008 From: stevengoodwin at gmail.com (Steven Goodwin) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:53:56 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: <49137D2D.2080900@karan.org> References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <49137D2D.2080900@karan.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > I will not be going this year. And yes, its going to be very cold! I > recall being there in early feb a few years back and remembering it > being around 0 most of the time day/night. > If you're feeling the cold, might I respectfully suggest you drink more beer ;) Steev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/social/attachments/20081107/b75da375/attachment.htm From gary.pownall at gmail.com Fri Nov 7 09:10:31 2008 From: gary.pownall at gmail.com (Gary Pownall) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:10:31 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <49137D2D.2080900@karan.org> Message-ID: What a Wuss you are Steven. Gary On 7 Nov 2008, at 08:53, Steven Goodwin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Karanbir Singh lists at karan.org> wrote: > I will not be going this year. And yes, its going to be very cold! I > recall being there in early feb a few years back and remembering it > being around 0 most of the time day/night. > > If you're feeling the cold, might I respectfully suggest you drink > more beer ;) > > Steev > > > _______________________________________________ > Social mailing list > Social at gllug.org.uk > http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social From social at eco.li Fri Nov 7 10:11:21 2008 From: social at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:11:21 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <20081106225913.GB7083@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: <20081107101121.GF7083@hades.eco.li> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:05:45PM +0000, Caroline Ford wrote: > > If I'm still working I'd love to go to my first FOSDEM, although I'd > be antisocial and attend talks and stuff ;) Pff. There's no accounting for some tastes! Talks are quite reasonable to attend - the social things happen in the evenings. Dan -- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov From unixadmin99 at gmail.com Fri Nov 7 14:45:39 2008 From: unixadmin99 at gmail.com (michael enoma aghayere) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:45:39 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <49137D2D.2080900@karan.org> Message-ID: <6f6f39580811070645k7d4d16e7r73cff231eb36fd83@mail.gmail.com> > If you're feeling the cold, might I respectfully suggest you drink more beer > ;) Don't forget the obligatory 1000 grams of chocolate. It gets wrapped for you by a suited chocolate connoisseur wearing white gloves. Last time I went there, with Dan&Co, the place was decked in red velvet and had a framed photograph of a US president. Very up market. Very nice chocolate too. Cherry beer is also very nice. -- ~michael www.BSDqed.com From mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk Mon Nov 10 15:52:33 2008 From: mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk (Mark Keating) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:52:33 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] LPW and Action Aid Message-ID: <491858C1.30403@shadowcatsystems.co.uk> Dear Perl Mo[u]nguers, One of the sponsors for the LPW, Investor Dynamics Limited, has decided to promote and provide as their sponsorship a raffle on behalf of Action Aid: http://www.actionaid.org.uk/. In this capacity they are putting forward a first prize of a Canon 1000D Camera with 18-55 IS lens, there will be other prizes (to be announced in due course), IDL has also kindly offered to match the first £600 pounds raised for the charity. If anyone would like to buy tickets before the event, or would like to buy tickets because they are not attending, they may do so. I will accept cheques made payable to Action Aid for this regard and will assign numbers to a person based on this. A list of pre-bought tickets will be published (with initials to protect identity) before and during the event and a list of winning numbers printed afterwards in this manner: http://www.markkeating.me.uk/lpw2008/raffle/raffle.html The address to send cheques to is: Mark Keating Shadowcat Systems Limited The Barracks South Road Lancaster LA1 4XQ A receipt can be made out upon request. All correspondence will be available for monitoring by Action Aid. Action Aid will be at the Workshop to draw the tickets. Thanks all. Regards Mark -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) | Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director | Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary | Enlightened Perl Organisation http://www.shadowcat.co.uk | http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating | 'Sufficiently Advanced Technology' From david at davidpashley.com Tue Nov 11 17:44:51 2008 From: david at davidpashley.com (David Pashley) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:44:51 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <49137D2D.2080900@karan.org> Message-ID: <20081111174450.GK26994@femme.catnip.org.uk> On Nov 07, 2008 at 09:10, Gary Pownall praised the llamas by saying: > What a Wuss you are Steven. > > Gary > Oh, no, Steev gets very fun when drunk. -- David Pashley david at davidpashley.com Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. From stevengoodwin at gmail.com Wed Nov 12 09:18:54 2008 From: stevengoodwin at gmail.com (Steven Goodwin) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:18:54 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM09 In-Reply-To: <20081111174450.GK26994@femme.catnip.org.uk> References: <20081106180519.GA11907@frasco.org.uk> <49137D2D.2080900@karan.org> <20081111174450.GK26994@femme.catnip.org.uk> Message-ID: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:44 PM, David Pashley wrote: > On Nov 07, 2008 at 09:10, Gary Pownall praised the llamas by saying: > > What a Wuss you are Steven. > > > > Gary > > > Oh, no, Steev gets very fun when drunk. > And beermat buckeroo gets very fun when you're unconscious, Dave ;) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk Fri Nov 14 16:29:08 2008 From: mdk at shadowcatsystems.co.uk (Mark Keating) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:29:08 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] LPW: Call for Volunteers: Technical Equipment Message-ID: <491DA754.7030201@shadowcatsystems.co.uk> Hello All, With only two weeks to go I once again come profferring my begging cap to all and sundry regarding technical equipment/expertise for the 2008 LPW. It would be really great if we could video the three lecture rooms (be even better if we could rustle up people/equipment to live stream it - but that's a possibility for maybe other years), and to that case we will need video cameras - possibly microphones -radio mics especially- (or cameras that can connect into the university systems) - technical/photographically minded individuals (and if one of you works for a company that has a lot of this stuff and has a perchant for a kindly loan of equipment and even expertise that'd be perfect - surely somebody works at the BBC - can we not get J. Ross' people, they must be bored as he's on suspension). Anyway, enough of the pipe dream, we need equipment and people to help video the event so that we can share it with the wider community. Think not what your wrokshop can do for you, (you know the rest)... Responses to mdk -at- shadowcat.co.uk Thanks in advance. Regards Mark -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) | Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director | Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary | Enlightened Perl Organisation http://www.shadowcat.co.uk | http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating | 'Sufficiently Advanced Technology'