Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-16 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:01:54PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: Simon Wistow said: Where would we be if we'd not bothered writing some Matt's Scripts replacments on the assumption that nobody would pick them up. Or written an extensible MLM in Perl on the assumption that despite having

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:58:41PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: * Must be a poster to the list * Or a regular on IRC * Or a regular at the pub and/or technical meets. OK, how do you

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: * Must be a poster to the list * Or a regular on IRC * Or a regular at the pub and/or technical meets. OK, how do you judge any of these? How often does one have to post in order to be a poster on the list. How much time spent

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:58:41PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: * Must be a poster to the list * Or a regular on IRC * Or a regular at the pub and/or technical meets. OK, how do you judge any of these? How often does one have to post in

RE: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Ivor Williams
On Friday, October 11, 2002 4:17 PM, Simon Wistow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:02:21PM +0100, Ivor Williams said: Maybe introduce some kind of XP style voting system, like on Perlmonks or Everything2. Alternatively we could just do it and then, if anybody

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Of course sometimes I think exactly the opposite but if yer optomistic then you get a lot more done. Hear hear. Just post to webmaster and then have them check it in. Webmaster might like to provide a template (in the general sense)

Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Batistoni
On 11/10/02 10:16 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: Which made me thing - is there a section on books we wrote on the london.pm site to give blatant free advertising plugs? [No] Would it be a good idea? Not sure. Because then we'd have everyone (even Matt Wright?) subscribing to london.pm just to

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Dean Wilson
- Original Message - From: Simon Batistoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] It could be a long, dark, slippery slope, but I think that it's possible to distinguish between involved perl mongers such as Dave, and freebie-seeking hangers on, who don't even come to a meeting. There *is* a problem of

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Batistoni
On 11/10/02 12:53 +0100, Dean Wilson wrote: I haven't been to an official meeting in the best part of twelve months and i had to miss YAPC. Does that make me a freebie-seeking hanger on? If it does and the criteria for getting something on the site is going to the pub then fine but if it

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread the hatter
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Simon Batistoni wrote: I think personal bios still have a problem, in that there has to be some criteria for bio-worthiness, which doesn't wind up looking elitist. I have a sinking feeling that the two things are incompatible, and that nice idea as it is, it really

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:09:37PM +0100, Simon Batistoni wrote: On 11/10/02 12:53 +0100, Dean Wilson wrote: I haven't been to an official meeting in the best part of twelve months and i had to miss YAPC. Does that make me a freebie-seeking hanger on? If it does and the criteria for getting