BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get on together - but the BCS has traditionally had large organisations as members and ignored open source and independent developers. They are holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ Leon
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
> > They are > holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? > > http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ > > Leon > What about CPAN::Mini::WebServer on a stick? Nige p.s. you could also set up a Perl Specialist Group within the BCS - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.1197
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
On 5/12/08 09:52, Nigel Hamilton wrote: They are holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ Leon What about CPAN::Mini::WebServer on a stick? Funny you mentioned this. I was just discussing the same thing with Earle (hex) at LPW last weekend. Adeola
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
On 5 Dec 2008, at 09:29, Léon Brocard wrote: There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get on together - but the BCS has traditionally had large organisations as members and ignored open source and independent developers. They are holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ I've submitted the old live departure boards alarm clock hack, and if it gets accepted it would be really nice to see some friendly faces in the audience. Greg
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Greg McCarroll wrote: On 5 Dec 2008, at 09:29, L?on Brocard wrote: There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get on together - but the BCS has traditionally had large organisations as members and ignored open source and independent developers. They are holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ I've submitted the old live departure boards alarm clock hack, and if it gets accepted it would be really nice to see some friendly faces in the audience. I'm already signed up and offered to pitch my Sony Reader and accoutrements if they need more people to babble about gadgets. Better get cracking on the epub ebook perl module I was working on, unless anyone else knows of one already out there? --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk Hey, it's our constitutional right to complain about the products we have willingly purchased without any forethought of consequences.
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:48:58 + (GMT), "Billy Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > On 5 Dec 2008, at 09:29, L?on Brocard wrote: > >> There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with > >> other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing > >> as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get > >> on together - but the BCS has traditionally had large organisations as > >> members and ignored open source and independent developers. They are > >> holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? > >> > >> http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ > >> > > > > I've submitted the old live departure boards alarm clock hack, and if it > > gets accepted it would be really nice to see some friendly faces in the > > audience. > > I'm already signed up and offered to pitch my Sony Reader and > accoutrements if they need more people to babble about gadgets. Better > get > cracking on the epub ebook perl module I was working on, unless anyone > else knows of one already out there? Not perl, but http://www.juliansmart.com/ecub just got announced, unfortunately not open source :( -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:52:34AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > p.s. you could also set up a Perl Specialist Group within the BCS - > http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.1197 A perl SIG seems very echo chambery. A dynamic languages group would be more likely to work, I would think. Partly because it would attract people who aren't already perl-heads, but it might also attract those of us who are *already* perl-heads, as it would be somewhere that we could learn new Stuff (eg from the python folks). I would be extremely unlikely to pay any attention to a specalist perl group, because I don't think there's anything I could learn from it that I can't already learn from the places that I already do perly things. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
Léon Brocard wrote: on together - but the BCS has traditionally had large organisations as members and ignored open source and independent developers. They are You could try the Open Source Specialist Group within BCS: http://ossg.bcs.org/ Cheers f
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
2008/12/5 David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:52:34AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > > > p.s. you could also set up a Perl Specialist Group within the BCS - > > http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.1197 > > A perl SIG seems very echo chambery. A dynamic languages group would be > more likely to work, I would think. Partly because it would attract > people who aren't already perl-heads, but it might also attract those of > us who are *already* perl-heads, as it would be somewhere that we could > learn new Stuff (eg from the python folks). I would be extremely > unlikely to pay any attention to a specalist perl group, because I don't > think there's anything I could learn from it that I can't already learn > from the places that I already do perly things. > > -- All very good points. I'm surprised the BCS doesn't have a dynamic languages group already. I think there is a big gap in the market here and one that is only going to get bigger. A dynamic languages forum could reach out to Ruby, Python etc with lots of good ideas flowing in between. Nige
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:29:54AM +, L?on Brocard wrote: > There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with > other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing > as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get > on together - but the BCS has traditionally had large organisations as > members and ignored open source and independent developers. They are > holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? > http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ I have birthday drinkies to go to that evening, but here's my gadget of the year: http://shorterlink.org/4405 It's half the size of an SD card, and you don't need a special card reader for it - it plugs straight into a USB port. I am amazed at how tiny it is. Also, the 8GB version is the Official Lonon.pm Colour. Tonight I'm going to see if I can boot off it. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Are you feeling bored? depressed? slowed down? Evil Scientists may be manipulating the speed of light in your vicinity. Buy our patented instructional video to find out how, and maybe YOU can stop THEM
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
2008/12/5 Léon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ This is tonight. You have to sign up in advance. See you there! Léon
