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Yet Another Perl Conference, North American edition: http://ww
w.yapcchicago.org

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention, including The Perl Confer
ence 10.

Portuguese attendees:Nuno NunesEma MartinsBruno Tavares
Ricardo Cerqueira

Guest of Honor: Jenda Krynicky

"Perl Module Show-and-Tell" Speakers introduce a module, e
xplain how they use it, show some applications of its usefulness, and answer questions. We're pleased to have:

-- Justin DeVyust on DBIx::Class - an rapidly developing API that
allows abstract encapsulation of database operations.

-- Steven Lembark on Sub::ForceEval - an attribute handler which can
be used to interface with external modules, or sytem-level tasks.

-- Payan Canaran on HTML::TreeBuilder - an method of parsing html
documents in a hierarchical and powerful way.

-- John Macdonald on Graph - it's not for drawing graphics, this
module deals with creation of data structures to represent/model
complex data.

Pittsburgh Perl Mongers, <a rel=nofollow href="http://pgh.pm.o
rg/" class=linkified target=_blank>http://pgh.pm.org/</a>

please join us on IRC in #parrot (irc.perl.org) to work on clos
ing out as many RT (https://rt.perl.org/rt3/) tickets as possible in the parrot queue. This will help us get ready for the next release of parrot 0.4.8, scheduled for Tuesday 16 January 2007. You'll find C, parrot assembly, perl, documentation, and plenty of tasks to go around. Core developers will be available all day (starting at around 10am GMT) to answer questions.

No experience with parrot necessary. See http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?bug_day_2007_01_13 for more information.

The next meeting of the Detroit Perl Mongers will be next Tuesd
ay, January 16th at 7pm.

Right now there is one talk scheduled. Werner Morgensturn will present on SOAP and Web Services.

As of now there is no second talk scheduled. Volunteers? We will have general discussion, talk about electing officers, and just be social.

The meeting place is same as last time. ePrize headquarters, which is at One ePrize Drive Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.

Food and beverage will be provided by ePrize.

Please RSVp to: <a rel=nofollow href="mailto:todd.chapman@eprize.com" class=linkified target=_blank>todd.chapman@eprize.com</a>

The Geneva Perl Mongers group is having a meeting on Jan 23th,
19:00 at "Restaurant des Nations". Eriam Schaffter and Sam Carmalt will present POE - Perl Object Environment. Basics and 2 applications. (http://geneve.mongueurs.net/)

Caribou Coffee16205 Harlem Ave Tinley Park, IL 60477(708)
444-0478

Copenhagen Perl Mongers are organizing a technical meeting on T
uesdag 30th. January 2007, at 18:00 about SVK decentralized SCM written in Perl by Chia-liang Kao, whom have paid us a visit earlier. Location: Kvarterhuset in Jemtelandsgade 3, room 210, DK-2300 København S, Denmark. We start in Kvarterhuset with a presentation of SVK by Lars Thegler (tagg). After this we go to Cafe Bizzaro (nearby) and socialize... Please tell us if you plan to attend, since the venue has a natural limitation. Please do so by joining/mailing our mailing list: <a rel=nofollow href="mailto:copenhagen-subscribe@perl.org" class=linkified target=_blank>copenhagen-subscribe@perl.org</a>

The topic of OSDC.tw 2007 will be the hottest "2.0" concept, b
ut what we actually want is "Programming 2.0", which means programmers can develop open source software projects in a more efficient and simple way, and get the higher executive speed. We welcome contributions from all fields on topics related to the latest open source development tools, and present your new ideas to the open source communities.

The proposal deadline is in the end of January, 2007. The presenting language includes English and Chinese. English Speakers will have a Chinese translation during the presentation. Conference registration will be available in the beginning of February, 2007.

Please submit your proposal to hcchien@hcchien.org in the following format, We will arrange the schedule of the conference after we receive all of the submission.

* subject:
* tutorial (3 hours long)/ session (1-1.5 hours)
* speaker:
* abstract:

"After Australia and Israel, Taiwan is the third country to run OSDC (Open Source Developer's Conference, OSDC.tw). Although there are many things to improve when we first hold the conference last year, but the event was a big hit. Therefore, we will face more challenges next year, and it will be an important issue to be admitted by everybody.

Have lunch with other Perl Mongers in Chicago's Loop. Meet

See <a rel=nofollow href="/calendar/redirector.html?http%3A%2F%
2Fsandiego.pm.org%2F" class=linkified target=_blank>http://sandiego.pm.org/</a> for details

See <a rel=nofollow href="/calendar/redirector.html?http%3A%2F%
2Fsandiego.pm.org%2F" class=linkified target=_blank>http://sandiego.pm.org/</a> for details

The next meeting of the Detroit Perl Mongers will be next Tuesd
ay, February 20th at 7pm.

This month we have 2 great presentations.
The first talk will be by ePrize's own Mike Gregorowicz: Introduction to LDIP - the LDIF-based Data Integration Pipeline system

LDIP is a data integration & work flow framework that is to be released open source under the Perl Artistic License Tuesday February 20th, 2007 at the Detroit Perl Mongers Meeting. This beginner-oriented presentation will talk about what LDIP does, why it's useful, and why it isn't.

The second talk will be presented by Ford's Ken Fox: Schwartzian Transforms, Closures and Memoization

Learn about cool functional programming techniques that should be in everybody's Perl toolbox. Perl's symbol table and variable types will also be covered so there's something for even the die-hard procedural Perlers.

The meeting place is ePrize headquarters, which is at One ePrize Drive Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.

Food and beverage will be provided by ePrize.
Please RSVP to todd.chapman@eprize.com.

(BTW, we know the Detroit.pm website it down. It's being worked on.)

Where: Performics @ 180 N La Salle 12th Floor. RSVP: By noon on
the previous Monday by mailing <a rel=nofollow href="mailto:joshua.mcadams+rsvp@gmail.com" class=linkified target=_blank>joshua.mcadams+rsvp@gmail.com</a>

You are invited to attend the European Perl Hackathon in Arnhem
, the Netherlands, from 2 - 4 March, 2007. Familiarity with the featured projects is not required\; you need only bring a laptop and a willingness to join in. Although there is no fee to attend the hackathon, you are required to pay for your own accommodation and transportation. However, it is possible to book a room at the venue location when you register for the hackathon, at the price of € 74 for two nights plus breakfast. Space is limited to 30 participants, and registration is required. Reservations for accommodations made through the hackathon must be made by 9 February\; reservations for the event itself must be made no later than 22 February. For more information about the event, please refer to <a rel=nofollow href="http://conferences.yapceurope.org/hack2007nl" class=linkified target=_blank>http://conferences.yapceurope.org/hack2007nl</a>

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people
to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. BarCampMadison is currently planned to be a 30-hour event focused on technology and creativity. To learn about other BarCamps around the world go to the International BarCamp site www.BarCamp.org.

http://barcampmadison.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://rakudo.org/chicago-pm/index.cgi?2007_02_13_dynamic_la
ngu
age_hootenanny

Chris McAvoy will implement a small project in Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby, demonstrating the features and differences in each language. Come with an open mind and we'll explore the limitless frontiers of awesome programming.

Chris is a programmer working for Performics. He's also an anti-language-zealot. He hates debating why some awesome language is better than some other awesome language. He'd rather spend his time doing fun things. His website is at http://lonelylion.com/.

This meeting will be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Room 103. The meeting will start at 7pm and run until about 9pm. As always, some Perl folks will hang out at Cozymel's afterwards.

Food and Drinks after meeting at Lucky Lab Brew Pub (915 SE Haw
thorne Blvd, Portland, OR).

On Saturday, 17 March 2007, please join us on IRC in #parrot
(irc.perl.org) to work on closing out as many RT (https://rt.perl.org/rt3/) tickets as possible in the parrot queue. This will help us get ready for the next release of parrot: 0.4.10, scheduled for Tuesday 20 March 2007. You'll find C, parrot assembly, perl, documentation, and plenty of tasks to go around. Core developers will be available most of the day (starting at around 10am GMT) to answer questions.

No experience with parrot necessary.

http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?bug_day_2007_03_17

Chris Mcavoy compares Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP by impleme
nting a small project in each and discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.


Where: Performics @ 180 N La Salle 12th Floor
RSVP: By noon on the monday before the event to joshua.mcadams+rsvp@gmail.com

Shibuya Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that YAPC::Asia 20
07 is now scheduled on April 4-5, 2007 in Tokyo. Registration will launch sometime in February but start looking for your flights and booking hotels during the conference now.

We are also announcing the call for presentations for the conference today. We are looking for 20 and 45 minutes presentations. Please submit your proposal via our web form. Make sure you include a title for your presentation, an abstract, a language of the talk (English or Japanese), and the amount of time that you think you will need for the presentation. Feel free to submit multiple proposals if you want to increase your chance to speak.

The deadline for submissions is February 16th, 2007. We launched a blog so you can keep yourself updated by subscribing its RSS feed. We're looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo again!

On behalf of The Perl Foundation, Houston.pm is officially ann
ouncing the call for participation for Yet Another Perl Conference North America 2007. The conference will be held in Houston, Texas, June 25 - 27 at the University of Houston.
Key Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline - April 9th
Schedule Announcement - April 30th
We are looking for presentations that current (or future) Perl programmers would enjoy. Talks aimed at veteran Perl programmers, beginners, or anyone in between are all welcome. Presentation slots will be 20 (standard), 50, and 80 minutes. As always, Lightning Talks will be presented on the last day of the conference, but the call for these will be announced as we get closer to the conference date.
At this time, we are accepting presentation abstracts via e-mail (abstracts-na at yapc.org). Once the ACT-hosted site goes live, you will be able to submit via the website (or e-mail if you'd like). Please include a title, expected talk time, and any special presentation requirements with your abstract. All rooms will have a projector and a microphone.
Upon submission, you should receive a confirmation within a week. If not, please resubmit. If you encounter any problems or have any questions, please feel free to contact us at help-na at yapc.org. Authors of accepted presentations will be contacted via email by April 25th.
See official posting at the YAPC::NA site: http://www.yapc.org/America/.

Brasil-PM and SPB are organizing the Yet Another Perl Conferenc
e South America (YAPC::SA::2007), in April 11 and April 14, 2007. The meeting will take place during The 8th International Free Software Forum (FISL 8.0) @ Porto Alegre (RS) - Brazil, which is coordinated by Free Software Association, FIERGS Exposition Center.

Centro de Eventos FIERGS
Av. Assis Brasil, 8787
Bairro Sarandi
Porto Alegre - RS
Brazil
http://www.cexpo.com.br

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=102">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=102</a>

Live Parrot Sketchcromatic catches everyone up on where parro
t is and what can be done with parrot.

http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/?PortlandPerlMongers

Food and Drinks after meeting at Lucky Lab Brew Pub (915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR).

Jeff Barr el Senior Manager, Web Services Evangelism (http://w
ww.jeff-barr.com/)
hablará de Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com) el jueves 19 de Abril
a las 20:00 en sala 101 en edificio C6 del campus nord del UPC
(http://www.ac.upc.edu/img/general.jpg)

See our events pages for further details, <a href="http://birm
ingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=103">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=103</a>

The next meeting of the Detroit Perl Mongers will be next Tuesd
ay, April
24th at 7pm. Next week!

This month Bill Hess of Technology Resource Group will be presenting.
Bill will talk about building Perl from source, building Perl modules,
and binding to C libraries with SWIG.

The meeting place is ePrize headquarters, which is at One ePrize Drive,
Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.

Food and beverage will be provided by ePrize.

Please RSVP to todd.chapman@eprize.com.

Andy Lester and Pete Krawczyk present a fun-filled night of fas
cinating features and facts that you may not know about Perl, CPAN and the Perl community, but definitely should. The evening is aimed at beginners and intermediate Perl programmers, but experts may just learn a thing or two as well. Our goal is to blow your mind at least once before the night is through.

En caso de no estar allí, nos hemos trasladado a La Dinamo (a
la vuelta de la Esquina).

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=103">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=103</a>

See our events pages for further details, <a href="http://birm
ingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=122">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=122</a>

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=104">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=104</a>

Austin Schutz - Web 2.1 and the Pursuit of AppynessFood a
nd Drinks after meeting at Lucky Lab Brew Pub (915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR).

Bruno's House

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=105">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=105</a>

Lightning-talk sessionTest::Builder, jonasbnTest af WWW\
, tagg

See our events pages for further details, <a href="http://birm
ingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=123">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=123</a>

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=106">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=106</a>

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=107">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=107</a>

<a rel=nofollow href="http://www.yapc.org/America/" class=linki
fied target=_blank>http://www.yapc.org/America/</a>

TITLE: Introduction to CatalystRSVP: cdaniels at iccohio dot
com by June 25
ABSTRACT: Perl has been a popular choice of web developers for many years, even though there was no standard web application framework for it! Now Catalyst is a powerful, new way to write Perl for the web. Catalyst combines the concision of Perl with the robustness of an MVC architecture like Rails or Struts. And it's all open source software.

Bar La Dinamo. 915 306 727http://www.ladinamo.org/local/

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=108">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=108</a>

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=109">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=109</a>

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=110">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=110</a>

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=111">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=111</a>

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=112">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=112</a>

http://faq.perl-community.de/bin/view/Community/PlanungWorks
hop
2007

The first annual Detroit Perl Mongers Social Event will be held
Tuesday, September 18th at 7pm. Please join us for BBQ and beer on the Lido deck. Our address is: One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.

This is purely a social event with no technical talks scheduled, but we will be announcing talks for Fall and Winter meetings. Everyone is welcome. We only ask that you RSVP before the 18th so we can buy enough food and beer. ( You must be 21 to be served. )

RSVP to: Todd.Chapman@ePrize.com

Questions?

Technical meeting, agenda is open: - lightning talks welcome
- YAPC::Europe 2008 will probably come up
- NPW 2007 closing

Kvarterhuset, http://www.findvej.dk/Jemtelandsgade3,2300

After this we go to Bizzaro for a beer, http://www.findvej.dk/Holmbladsgade15,2300

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=113">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=113</a>

With special guest: Abigail

Join the San Diego Perl Mongers as Damian Conway presents "Sex
and Violence: Social and Technical Lessons from the Perl 6 Project."

More details at http://sandiego.pm.org/.

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=114">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=114</a>

Parrot hackers will be in #parrot on irc.perl.org all day to an
swer questions, apply patches, fix bugs, and clean up the bird for the upcoming release. If you've ever wanted to contribute to Parrot but don't know how, join us in IRC. There are tasks for everyone from Perl novices to hardcore C hackers\; many require little more than a Subversion client, a development environment, and a couple of hours of your time.

Perl Seminar NYTuesday, Oct 16, 6:15-8:15 pmNYPC User Gro
up office suite
481 8th Ave, Suite 550
(between West 34 & 35 Sts, Manhattan, near Penn Station)

Hello all,The Detroit Perl Mongers was restarted last year
after several years or dormancy. The last year has seen a steady group of dedicated people meeting most months to talk about all things Perl related. Last month we celebrated the first year of the new Detroit Perl Mongers with a beer and BBQ social that was a huge success. But frankly we want more from our group. We want more people at our meetings and more people volunteering to present. Detroit.pm never limited itself to Perl only presentations but somehow that's all we ever had. How did that happen? :)

So we have a new group that will encompass all dynamic languages. That means Perl, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Scheme, PHP, ActionScript, and anything else you can think of. What we don't have is a new group name yet, so we'll leave that to our next meeting. Meetings will still be hosted by ePrize. Out next meeting is Tuesday, October 16th at 7pm. Chad Carr will present, Building Lisp web applications using HUNCHENTOOT.

"A modern web application framework built in Common Lisp, HUNCHENTOOT allows very rapid development, as well as tight integration with development tools, remote debugging, and dynamic code deployment."

And if Lisp isn't your thing, Ken Fox will be presenting on tied objects in Perl. I think both presentations will be very interesting!

The meeting location is One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069. The meeting starts at 7pm with food provided by ePrize. Please RSVP to todd.chapman@eprize.com so we can be sure to order enough food for everyone.

Todd Chapman
todd.chapman@eprize.com
Software Engineer
ePrize

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=115">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=115</a>

We will meet at about 6:30 on Thursday the 25th of October at t
he
Peculier Pub at 145 Bleecker Street, just west of LaGuardia place.

Guests: Marty and Karen Pauley from Japan

Bruxelles.pm is proud to announce that the first Brussels Perl\
nWorkshop will be held on 27/10/2007 at the ESI (http://www.heb.be/esi). We are appealing for anyone wishing to take part as a speaker, and hope to see you there.

More details will soon follow on our Web site http://bruxelles.pm.org, but
meanwhile you can contact us via bruxelles.pm@gmail.com.
----
Bruxelles.pm is trots de eerste Belgian Perl Workshop aan te kondigen.
De workshop gaat door op 27/10/2007 in de lokalen van ESI te Brussel
(http://www.heb.be/esi) alwaar wij U talrijk hopen te verwelkomen.
Kandidaat sprekers worden gevraagd zich (reeds via e-mail) zo snel
mogelijk aan te melden.

Meer informatie is binnenkort raadpleegbaar op onze website
http://bruxelles.pm.org. In afwachting zijn we bereikbaar via e-mail naar bruxelles.pm@gmail.com.

Tot ziens !
------
Bruxelles.pm est fier de vous annoncer que ce 27/10/2007 se tiendra le premier Brussels Perl Workshop à l'ESI (http://www.heb.be/esi). Nous lançons donc un appel aux candidats souhaitant participer en tant que
conférencier, et espérons vous y voir nombreux

Plus de détails suivront sur notre site web http://bruxelles.pm.org,
et en attendant, vous pouvez nous joindre à l'adresse suivante bruxelles.pm@gmail.com.

A bientôt,

<a href="http://perl.pt/">APPP</a> is organizing a Catalyst tra
ining event in Braga, Portugal, November the 2nd and 3rd.<br><br><a href="http://perl.pt/catalyst-days/">Catalyst Days</a> is a two day training event for Perl programmers who don't know much (or nothing at all) about <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/">Catalyst</a>
; or even MVC frameworks in general, with lectures in the mornings and exercises in the afternoons.<br><br><a href="http://novis.pt/">Novis</a>, <a href="http://optimus.pt/">Optimus</a>, <a href="http://clix.pt/">Clix</a>, <a href="http://log.pt/">log</a>, <a href="http://excentric.pt/">excentric</a> and the <a href="http://www.di.uminho.pt/">Department of Informatics of the University of Minho</a> are sponsoring, making the venue available and even going as far as providing lunch for the attendees during the two days.

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=116">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=116</a>

Parrot hackers will be in #parrot on irc.perl.org all day to an
swer questions, apply patches, fix bugs, and clean up the bird for the upcoming release. If you've ever wanted to contribute to Parrot but don't know how, join us in IRC. There are tasks for everyone from Perl novices to hardcore C hackers\; many require little more than a Subversion client, a development environment, and a couple of hours of your time.

Первая встреча группы Moscow.pm. Подробности в листе рассылки.
Ожидается несколько сообщений от участников на технические и организационные темы.

See website http://vlaanderen.pm.org/ for details. By default a
meeting starts as soon as two or more Perl Mongers are present at the Café Boesjkammeree, at or later than 19:00. The technical and social parts of the meeting go hand in hand in a semi-chaotic but very entertaining way.
Check the Vlaanderen Perl Mongers mailing list ( http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/vlaanderen/ ) where date, time and place will be discussed and announced.

The Vlaanderen Perl Mongers meet every third Wednesday of the month, except (like on this day) on special days or when most of the regular attendees have other responsibilites to attend to, in which case the meeting is moved to a more suitable date, preferrable another day in the same week (this time: two days later).

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=117">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=117</a>

See our technical meetings pages for further details:http:/
/birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&amp\;eventid=124

See website http://amsterdam.pm.org/ for details. By default a
meeting starts as the Perl Mongers gather at 18:00 at the XS4ALL building (Eekholt 42, 1112 XH Diemen, The Netherlands.

At 18:15 everybody goes for dinner to Chinese restaurant Ling Hong in Diemen (Ouddiemerlaan 15, 1111 GS Diemen, The Netherlands).

After dinner: return back to the XS4ALL building. The technical meeting starts at 20:00 and ends at 22:30. Check the Amsterdam Perl Mongers mailing list ( https://list.xs4all.nl/pipermail/nl-pm/ ) where date, time and place will be announced.

The Amsterdam Perl Mongers meet every first Tuesday of the month, except on special days (mostly holidays), like January 1st, Liberation Day and &quot\;Sinterklaas&quot\;, in which case the meeting is moved (often to the next Tuesday).

Regularly Scheduled DC.pm Perl Mongers Meeting. See http://dc.p
m.org/ for up-to-date details.

See website http://bruxelles.pm.org/ for details. The meeting s
tarts when most of the expected Perl Mongers are present at the Café Le Greenwich, at or later than 18:30. The technical and social parts of the meeting go hand in hand.

The Brussels Perl Mongers meet every second Tuesday of the month, except on special days. Check the Brussels Perl Mongers mailing list ( http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/bruxelles-pm/ ) where date, time and place will be discussed and announced.

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=118">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=118</a>

http://company.yandex.ru/inside/contacts.xml (здание на Самокат
ной улице)

We are celebrating Perl's birthday and the forthcoming christma
s.

Bizzaro: http://www.findvej.dk/Holmbladsgade15,2300

See website http://vlaanderen.pm.org/ for details. By default a
meeting starts as soon as two or more Perl Mongers are present at the Café Friends, at or later than 18:00. The technical and social parts of the meeting go hand in hand in a semi-chaotic but very entertaining way.

We plan on having a meal together first, at Friends or somewhere else in the restaurant-rich neighbourhood.

Check the Vlaanderen Perl Mongers mailing list ( http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/vlaanderen/ ) where date, time and place will be discussed and announced.

The Vlaanderen Perl Mongers meet every third Wednesday of the month, except on special days or when most of the regular attendees have other responsibilites to attend to, in which case the meeting is moved to a more suitable date, preferrable another day in the same week.

See website http://groningen.pm.org/ for details. By default a
meeting starts as the Perl Mongers gather for dinner after 18:00 at Brasserie Groen (restaurant, Carolieweg 16-1, 9716 LS Groningen, The Netherlands.

After dinner: to the Warpnet building. The technical meeting starts at 20:00 and ends at 22:30. Check the Groningen Perl Mongers mailing list ( http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/groningen-pm/ ) where date, time and place will be announced.

The Groningen Perl Mongers meet every third Thursday of the month, except on special days (mostly holidays), in which case the meeting is moved (often to the next Thursday).

See website http://amsterdam.pm.org/ for details. By default a
meeting starts as the Perl Mongers gather at 18:00 at the XS4ALL building (Eekholt 42, 1112 XH Diemen, The
Netherlands.

At 18:15 everybody goes for dinner to Chinese restaurant Ling Hong in Diemen (Ouddiemerlaan 15, 1111 GS Diemen, The Netherlands).

After dinner: return back to the XS4ALL building. The technical meeting starts at 20:00 and ends at 22:30. Check the Amsterdam Perl Mongers mailing list ( https://list.xs4all.nl/pipermail/nl-pm/ ) where date, time and place will be announced.

The Amsterdam Perl Mongers meet every first Tuesday of the month, except on special days (mostly holidays), like January 1st, Liberation Day and "Sinterklaas", in which case the meeting is moved (often to the next Tuesday).

The JavaScript Renaissance Part I: The Core LanguageWhat co
mes to mind when think of JavaScript? Broken web sites, browser incompatibilities, and brittle spaghetti code? It doesn't have to be this way anymore! In this presentation, we'll take a focused look at some of the most powerful and under-appreciated features of the core JavaScript language -- prototype-based inheritance, lexical closures, and metaprogramming. We'll look briefly at what these features actually provide from a language standpoint, and then spend most of our time rolling up our sleeves and digging into real world code. In the process, we'll get acquainted with the Prototype library, and see how it extends the core JavaScript language in fascinating and clever ways. We'll finish up with a brief look at what's coming in JavaScript 2.0.

by: Frederick Polgardy, Senior Consultant, Obtiva Corp.

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=125">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=125</a>

The next meeting of the Detroit Perl Mongers / Dynamic Language
s group will be at 7pm on January 15th, 2008.

This month's presenter is... YOU! Each attendee will present a short technique/trick they find helpful. Your presentation should be 10 minutes long or less. We want most of the meeting time to be devoted to group discussion of each tip. Chances are there will be enough discussion that we won't get to everyone, and that's okay. We will have a white board available as well as a laptop that can handle PDF, text, and PowerPoint. Please email any necessary files before the meeting or even better bring them on a FAT formatted flash drive. I think we'll have a lot of fun with this format.

Questions?

The meeting location is One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069. The meeting starts at 7pm with food provided by ePrize. Please RSVP to todd.chapman@eprize.com so we can be sure to order enough food for everyone.

Todd Chapman
todd.chapman@eprize.com
Software Engineer
ePrize

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"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=126">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=126</a>

Copenhagen Perl Mongers Tech. MeetingAnton Berezin talks ab
out: Class::Prototyped

MAP: http://www.findvej.dk/Langebrogade6,1411?text=Adapt&link=http://www.adapt.dk/

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=127">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=127</a>

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"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=128">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=128</a>

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=129">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=129</a>

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"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=130">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=130</a>

http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/OsloQAWorkshop2008
For more details, contact either Kirill Miazine (km@krot.org) or Salve J. Nilsen (salvejn@met.no)

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=131">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=131</a>

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"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=132">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=132</a>

Hello Everybody,We are having a last tuesday of the month
meeting

Tuesday d. 29th. April 2008, at 19:00 <- NOTE THE TIME

at Kvarterhuset, http://www.findvej.dk/Jemtelandsgade3,2300

The agenda will be NPW and Y::E 2008 and if anybody feel like contributing with something relevant/technical

After this we go to Bizzaro,
http://www.findvej.dk/Holmbladsgade15,2300 for burgers and beer

Everybody are welcome,

jonasbn and tagg

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=133">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=133</a>

YAPC::Asia 2008 will happen on May 15-16th in Tokyo. For more
details, visit thw website at http://conferences.yapcasia.org/ya2008/ and twitter stream http://twitter.com/yapcasia

See http://sandiego.pm.org/ for details

The 2008 Nordic Perl Workshop 2 be held in Stockholm. Please no
te the dates are preliminary.

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=134">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=134</a>

http://orlando.pm.org/1025 Greenwood Blvd.Suite 237Lake
Mary, FL. 32746

http://orlando.pm.org/1025 Greenwood Blvd.Suite 237Lake
Mary, FL. 32746

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=135">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=135</a>

YAPC::NA is the premiere North American Perl conference where h
undreds of Perl programmers from around the world gather to teach, learn, and collaborate. More details are available at the conference web site: http://yapc.org/America.

Now it is time for the June meeting, we have some different te
chnical presentations on the schedule.

- Troels Liebe Bentsen talks about his IO::EventMux

- Søren Lund gives a talk on practical Perl, using: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, DBI, WWW::Mechanize, HTML::TokeParser and XML::Simple

- Michael Zedeler gives a talk on: "Stream oriented processing with DSlib". This presentation will also be given at the forthcoming YAPC::Europe in Copenhagen (http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1393)

Michael Zedeler has been so kind as to provide meeting facilities at ITU.

ITU: http://www.findvej.dk/ruedlanggaardsvej7

jonasbn

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"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=136">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=136</a>

м. Курская

Первая оффлайновая встреча RostovOnDon.pm

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=137">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=137</a>

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"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=138">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=138</a>

Taught by Dave Crosshttp://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/tuto
rials.html

This full day tutorial covers some of the more advanced Perl topics that might be missing from your Perl programming knowledge. By the end of the tutorial, attendees should be more confident in their Perl abilities and have a better idea of how Perl experts approach Perl programming.
Topics covered include: CPAN tools, templating, ORM, testing, benchmarking and object oriented Perl.

The tutorial is aimed at people who have some Perl experience and who would like to take their Perl knowledge to the next level.

Location: Kvarterhuset, Jemtelandsgade 3, DK-2300 København S, Denmark (map: http://www.findvej.dk/Jemtelandsgade3,2300)

Taught by Gabor Szabohttp://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/tut
orials.html

Perl has been used for years in QA for various tasks such as preparing configuration files before the tests run and parsing log files after the test. In the past few years a lot of extensions have been added to Perl. Now, in addition to the above tasks Perl can already be used in all parts of the automatic test environment. It can be used to behave like a regular user, move the mouse and click on buttons on any application running on Microsoft Windows or to become a web client and test any web based application.

Location: Kvarterhuset, Jemtelandsgade 3, DK-2300 København S, Denmark (map: http://www.findvej.dk/Jemtelandsgade3,2300)

&quot\;Beautiful Perl&quot\; is this years' theme of the yearly
European grassroots Perl conference. &quot\;YAPC&quot\; stands for &quot\;Yet Another Perl Conference&quot\; and is a series of low-cost, grassroot conferences organized by local Perl user groups.

See website for news, programme, location and other details:
http://yapceurope2008.org/

See our social meetings pages for further details, <a href="ht
tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=139">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=139</a>

Taught by brian d foyhttp://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/tut
orials.html

I'm giving a tutorial based on my latest book, Mastering Perl, in which I try to give people practical advice about using Perl in the real world. For the tutorial I've pulled out four topics:

* benchmarking and measuring performance
* writing configurable programs so users don't have to edit code
* logging to show debugging, error, and progress information
* debugging, patching, and fixing third party code without changing the original source
* error detection and reporting

For this tutorial, you only need to be comfortable using Perl modules. I'm not going to get into tricky syntax or wizardly tricks. It's the stuff that normal people can use to make their normal applications easier to use and maintain. The presentation is in English, and includes a copy of the slides and a copy of Mastering Perl.

Location: Kvarterhuset, Jemtelandsgade 3, DK-2300 København S, Denmark (map: http://www.findvej.dk/Jemtelandsgade3,2300)

Taught by Josh McAdamshttp://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/tu
torials.html

Test-driven Development is one of the current buzzwords of programming and while many people have trouble subscribing to the philosophy, even more have trouble actually implementing it in their day-to-day work. It is just too easy to cut a testing corner here or write this little untested subroutine there. What seems like it is saving you time at the moment, might actually be costing you time and increasing your technical debt in the long term.

This tutorial briefly covers some conceptual testing discussion, but quickly moves into examples of test-driven development. The language used for the examples is Perl, though the practices and tools can be applied to other programming languages.

We'll take an idea for a program, write a base-level test, make that test pass, write another failing test... over and over again until the final product is built. Then we'll move into gathering and understanding code coverage for the tests that were just written and writing more tests for edge cases.

This tutorial is based on a course conducted by Stonehenge. Slides for the course can be provided upon request.

Location: Kvarterhuset, Jemtelandsgade 3, DK-2300 København S, Denmark (map: http://www.findvej.dk/Jemtelandsgade3,2300)

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ventid=140">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=140</a>

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=141">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=141</a>

See our technical meetings pages for further details, <a href=
"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=142">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=142</a>

Special guest: Walt Mankowski of phl.pm

Second Russian Perl Workshop, now Far Eastern.http://fe200
8.perlrussia.ru/

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=143">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=143</a>

Приезжает Jonathan Worthington.

http://www.conisli.org/ http://www.perl.org.br/Main/Yapc200
8Preliminares

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ventid=144">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=144</a>

From http://use.perl.org/~domm/journal/37364On Friday, 7th
November, Vienna.pm will welcome Perl Hackers from around the world to Vienna. The event will continue on Saturday, 8th November, in Bratislava, hosted by Bratislava.pm. Each day will feature talks in the local language (German and Slovak) in the morning, followed by English talks in the afternoon. The evenings will be spent at social events in restaurants near the venues. In case you're not so good in geography, the distance between Vienna and Bratislava is ~65km, so it's quite easy to travel from one city to the other (by car, train, bus or even boat).


More information is available on our nice and shiny, ACT-powered website available here: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/tcpw2008/

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ventid=145</a>

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"http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=146">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl
?act=evnt-item&eventid=146</a>

The 5th Australian Open Source Developer's Conference (OSDC) wi
ll be held in Sydney this year. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. The program will include a three day conference plus one day of tutorials.

See the website for news and further details: http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/

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tp://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&eventid=147">http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=evnt-item&e
ventid=147</a>

"Why C Matters If You Program in Perl"Steven LembarkWe all
know that Perl 5 is written in C. But most Perl programmers
don't really need to think about that fact because (a) Perl masks all
the gnarly parts of C\; and (b) Perl is so great at doing what it
does. But there are times when knowing how C makes Perl what it is
can affect the way you write your Perl programs. In what
circumstances would you write your Perl differently knowing how C
underpins the Perl you're writing?

ВШЭ на Мясницкой

See http://sandiego.pm.org/ for details.

Hacking a project on Catalyst

<a href="http://www.perlworkshop.be">http://www.perlworkshop.
be
</a><BR/>
<a href="http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009">http://con
ferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009</a><BR/>
<BR/>
2 main themes:<BR/>
1. Catalyst ( 4-8 hours)<BR/>
2. Perl Discovery and Perl Discovered by Companies ( 8 hours )<BR/>
<BR/>
Contact: belgianperlworkshop2009@gmail.com

http://kansai.pm.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?page=%A5%A4%A5%D9%A5%F3%A
5%C8%2F%C2%E811%B2%F3%A5%DF%A1%BC%A5%C6%A5%A3%A5%F3%A5%B0%B9%F0%C3%CE

The exciting Social Meetings from Rio de Janeiro Perl Mongers h
appen every second Thursday of the month. The "canonical" place is at Mercadinho São José in Laranjeiras, but every month the place is discussed and defined in the group's mailing list and displayed on the website (http://rio.pm.org/enc_sociais.pl)

Come grab a drink/bite with us and chat for a while - everyone's invited!

The August 2009 meeting will be held at the Courtyard by Marrio
tt in Sorrento Valley.

See http://sandiego.pm.org/ for details.

Michael Zedeler will give a technical talk more information wil
l follow

Main site (to come): http://conferences.yapcasia.org/ya2009/C
ampus information: http://www.titech.ac.jp/english/about/campus/index.html

Perl.It (Italian Perl users) and Pisa.pm (Pisa Perl user group)
, in
cooperation with IIT-CNR and with the patronage of Comune di Pisa, are
organizing the 5th edition of Italian Perl Workshop (IPW 2009).

The conference will be held in Pisa, at the "Area di Ricerca"
(Research Area) of the CNR (National Research Centre) on 22 and 23
October 2009.
http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&q=%22Area+della+Ricerca+CNR%22,+Italia,+Pisa%0APisa,+Italia&ie=UTF8&ll=43.71859,10.42285&spn=0.006514,0.011415&t=h&z=17

This is a non-profit event and is the national conference on the Perl language and related technologies.

This Workshop aims to be an opportunity for Perl users to meet each
others, both professionals and amateurs. It's also a great occasion
for people who don't know about Perl but want to know something more
about its features, its culture and the community around it.

The event is free.

More info: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ipw2009/
To register: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ipw2009/register

We are proud to announce the YAPC::Brasil 2009, to be held fro
m 30/October to 1/November in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

We have humble goals this year: to put forth the greatest YAPC::Brasil ever, celebrate the Joy of Perl among ourselves, and tempt everyone else to join us in developing the programming language that has the happiest users!

We hope to deliver expertise in all levels, from introductory workshops {say "hello Perl!"} to perlguts, SMOP, Reaction and Metaprogramming - to list a few - and also a good number of slots for lightning talks to encourage newcomers!

Niterói holds one of the highest Human Development Indexes (HDI) of the country, and stays just a 15-minute ferry boat ride away from the famous, infamous and glamorous Rio de Janeiro. If you happen to be nearby, hop aboard and come join us!

More information: http://yapcbrasil.org.br/2009
http://twitter.com/yapcbrasil #yapcbrasil09
organizacao@yapcbrasil.org.br

UKUUG / O'Reilly Tutorials by Dave Crosswww.ukuug.org/events/
perl09/

Lightning-talks on Build and Deployment systems, plus gløgg,
since it's 1 month to Christmas.

UKUUG / O'Reilly Tutorials by Dave Crosswww.ukuug.org/events/
perl09/

UKUUG / O'Reilly Tutorials by Dave Crosswww.ukuug.org/events/
perl09/

http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2009/The theme for thi
s year is Beginning Perl, which can be taken as Perl for beginners if one so wishes, or aimed at people new to Perl who are fluent in another language, or in fact any variant theme that one can conjecture including beginning a CPAN module, projects that are fun/welcoming/reliant on beginners (and also we expect some of you to ignore this all together and submit as you feel).