Perl at Fosdem in Brussels on Februari 1 & 2, 2014

2014-01-30 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Hi all, Read all about it. Perl will be big at Fosdem in Brussels. We have a big booth with tuits, buttons, stickers, toy camels, brochures, books for sale and of course the largest library of Perl-books in the world and the big Perl camel. We have a nice devroom in the same building as

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 04:21 PM 3/27/2014, Smylers wrote: >Note my concerns weren't about the OS's user interface, but scanner >support and a couple of decades' worth of WordPerfect documents. I'm on Ubunty, I switched over from Windows XP several years ago, and I do have quite an extensive amount of WordPerfect co

NLPW - Dutch Perl Workshop 2014 - 25 April 2014

2014-04-03 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
In 3 weeks the Dutch Perl Workshop will take place in Utrecht, the most central (and 4th largest city) of The Netherlands. http://www.perlworkshop.nl/nlpw2014/ We will have two tracks: one (mostly) in Dutch, one in English. The subjects will vary as always. Among the speakers will be some w

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-28 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 03:14 PM 9/22/2011, Dave Cross wrote: >Interesting question from a training client: > >"Do you know of a general Perl skills test (on-line or paper) that we could >give to our Perl developers before you turn up. > >The idea is that the output could feed into the training you are doing for >us."

[London.PM] Draft for call for speakers @ FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium

2011-12-05 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Hi, This is the draft of the call for speakers for FOSDEM 2012. Please give your comments, corrections and ideas regarding this texts. Specifically, I would very much appreciate your input regarding dates, deadlines and subjects of talks. Additionally, I am not too sure about the sponsori

Re: [London.PM] Draft for call for speakers @ FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium

2011-12-06 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Dave Cross is the wise man who is always right. And when he is right, he is right. Thanks for educating me. Wendy At 10:45 PM 12/5/2011, Dave Cross wrote: >On 12/05/2011 09:00 PM, Wendy G.A. van Dijk wrote: > >> Two years ago, the Perl community was for the first time prese

Re: Perl outreach

2012-11-27 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 07:07 PM 11/26/2012, Salve J Nilsen wrote: >Daniel Mantovani said: >>... >> The solution is simple and we already know that, so let's start talk >> how fantastic I can solve the problem foo in Perl in a Ruby event, >> let's talk about Perl in a PostgreSQL event and so go on. And people >> we wi

Re: Tuits at the LPW

2012-12-05 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
You're welcome. And I've got many more if you want more. Greetz, Wendy At 05:50 PM 12/5/2012, Richard Foley wrote: >I don't know who's idea the little round-Tuit's were, at the LPW last month, >but they make excellent reminder tokens, a bit like knotting a hanky. > >Kudos! > >-- >Ciao > >Richard

Agenda Perl and open source events

2012-12-05 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
In case anybody is interested. Not all these dates are in other collections of events. If anybody has additions, please contact me. Thanks, Wendy Perl and Perl-related Events December 2012 2012.12.07~~09 Quack and Hack Europe Paris, France 2012.12.04~~07 OSDC.au S

Re: Agenda Perl and open source events

2012-12-05 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 09:52 PM 12/5/2012, Mark Fowler wrote: >On Wednesday, 5 December 2012 at 15:12, Wendy G.A. van Dijk wrote: >> In case anybody is interested. Not all these >> dates are in other collections of events. > >For those that have firm dates, it would be great to get these >p

Perl booth on FOSDEM at 2&3 februari 2013 in Brussel

2012-12-22 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Hi all, Best words pre-end-of-year I had this week... This is just in: "I am pleased to inform you that your proposal for a stand at FOSDEM 2013 has been accepted. We have assigned two tables to you." Perl will have a booth at FOSDEM, 2&3 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium. Perl people are w

We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-25 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Hello all, We know it is late, but we still have to try to make this work. Maybe to save the honour and pride of Perl! :-) Would you like to give a presentation in Brussels, please send me and/or Claudio a proposal. Today or tomorrow please. Thanks! Kind regards, Wendy van Dijk Dear

We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-25 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
If you need an URL for twitter and the like: https://nxadm.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/perlfosdem2013-a-very-late-call-for-papers/ == Hello all, We know it is late, but we still have to try to make this work. Maybe to save the honour and pride of Perl! :-) Would you like to give a

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
ted on https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/ as having a >developer room.) > >Regards > >Duncan > >-Original Message----- >From: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org >[mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Wendy G.A. van Dijk >Sent: 25 January 2013 20:41 &g

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
And the reason why we are not mentioned yet on the page of Fosdem is because our dev-room is only semi-official yet. Fosdem decided not to give us a dev-room, and give "our regular dev-room" to a friendly/competing programming language. Another friendly/competing programming language could not

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
And the reason why we are not mentioned yet on the page of Fosdem is because our dev-room is only semi-official yet. Fosdem decided not to give us a dev-room, and give "our regular dev-room" to a friendly/competing programming language. Another friendly/competing programming language could not

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
>> Shouldn't TPF commit to sponsoring this today and then launch a drive >> to find a commercial sponsor to reimburse TPF? >> >> (Perl still isn't listed on https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/ as >> having a developer room.) >> >> Regards >> >> Dun

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Hai Duncan, At 06:44 PM 1/26/2013, Duncan Garland wrote: >TPF posted a couple of days ago that it has £100,000 (or dollars or >whatever) to distribute, so resources isn't the problem. Money is not the issue. If it were, I know enough people at TPF, YEF and elsewhere to ask for it. >A couple

Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

2013-01-27 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Hello all, Fosdem. https://fosdem.org/2013/ We made it. We've got 14 speakers with 14 talks, one for each speaker. We even have 4 lightning talks. The schedule is craamed with Perly goodness, even without a lunchbreaks and with short 5-minutes breaks. We even have 3 speakers on standby

Re: Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

2013-01-27 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 10:03 PM 1/27/2013, Nicholas Clark wrote: >Wow, you've got a booth *and* a dev room. That's impressive. >(But not as impressive as getting a schedule put together in 4 days) We had a booth and a dev room in the previous two years! They were the ones who thought it was a good idea to let othe

Fosdem - Beer Event on Friday, and Dinner on Saturday - Join us

2013-01-31 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
Fosdem on February 2 & 3 in Brussels. It is not just conference and expo. There is more. Beer event on Friday evening, February 1st = https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/beerevent/ Impasse de la Fidélité 4, Brusels http://www.deliriumcafe.be/ At 18:00 the Fosdem-people will g

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-06-19 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 09:55 PM 6/19/2013, Paul Makepeace wrote: >Wow, and I thought Oakland (California) was permissive allowing us, in >a large (~1M pop.) city, to keep cows and horses. You need an acre >minimum for a horse, but so long as you can demonstrate adequate >manure processing capacity, cows are a go. > >

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-06-20 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 11:36 PM 6/19/2013, Damian Conway wrote: >> The discussion is in the Dutch Parliament and it's committees. Maybe a bit >> far out of reach for you :-) > >Not really: I do live in New Holland, after all. >(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Holland_%28Australia%29) > >;-) > >Damian Even th

Re: Fosdem 2013

2013-08-14 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 12:02 AM 8/15/2013, Duncan Garland wrote: >Is there going to be a Perl stall or a dev room at the next Fosdem? >Duncan If it is up to me, yes, there will. But the organisers of Fosdem did not even yet send out mailings to react to, so we cannot yet apply for a booth or a devroom. But be as

Re: Fosdem 2013

2013-08-15 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 05:43 PM 8/15/2013, Salve J Nilsen wrote: >Wendy G.A. van Dijk said: >> At 12:02 AM 8/15/2013, Duncan Garland wrote: >> >>> Is there going to be a Perl stall or a dev room at the next Fosdem? Duncan >> >> If it is up to me, yes, there will. But the orga

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-20 Thread Wendy G.A. van Dijk
At 05:21 PM 9/18/2013, gvim wrote: >On 18/09/2013 16:10, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >> >> Don't forget Ovid's "Beginning Perl", >http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781118013847.do :-) >> > >More generic Perl books. Exactly what we don't need. > >gvim I disagree. It is exactly what we need. Not y