From john_van_v at yahoo.com Fri Feb 11 18:43:46 2000 From: john_van_v at yahoo.com (John van V.) Date: Thu Jan 27 21:38:35 2005 Subject: Perl SIG, First meeting Tue, Feb 22 6:00 @ IBM, 57th and Mad Ave Message-ID: <20000211184346.15221.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> Hello Fellow Mongers and LINUX integrators!! This is the official announcement of the PUNY SIG first meeting: Tue Feb 22, 6:00 pm @ IBM, 57th and Madison Ave Since my consulting corp, CXN, Inc., is a NYSIA member and all mongers and linux sig members are automatically CXN associates you will not have to pay the $20 fee. Please, please email me first with your mailing address so I can send you some attractive business cards. The agenda is thus: First, I will demonstrate the impossible, teaching newbies perl in 5 minutes !! Then I will need mongers to volunteer to give short descriptions of how perl helped them drive business model (loosely defined) I will give a demo of my own engine, the DepthDB and its thinclient, Depth.cgi DepthDB The meeting will then be thrown open for feedback on future plans, sorta like a democracy :) The deeper agenda: ...or just look at the site: PUNY PUNY is being carefully designed to meet a variety of perl and business needs: * Our technology and philosophy is brought directly to business and the s/w industry. With frequent open technical meetings we can meet people can assist the creative growth of perl as well as understand how perl can help their own operations; our contribution needs to be taken more seriously. * Create an open venue to plan around such alarming issues as the DVD crisis, refund-day, and the intellectual property laws. We can easily bring in experts to detail how these issues directly affect the future of perl. * Create workshops to bring in the physical layer in cooperation w/ the C++ Sig and the educational system. Perl should, IMHO, be offered in the high schools as an optional course and it should be a staple of normal government administration. Other important issues: * Integrating EMACS a lot better, understanding where LISP fits in * Method (rather than file) version control * The prospect of seeing perl compete directly w/ java * Perl on PDAs, replacing shell in unix, start looking at the new OSs * Educating a new generation of porters in c++ and the pragmas * Fine beers and single malts The list actually goes on, and I have some grandiose plans for actual business applications. I should also mention that I am personally starting to feel familial bonds, especially after YAPC, and that perl has a destiny and I will be really depressed if gets sold short. >From the geekcode: "Perl combines the power of sh, the clarity of sed, and the performance of awk with the simplicity of C. It should be banned" See you there ( or actually email me first !! ) ===== John van Vlaanderen ############################################# # CXN, Inc. Contact: john@thinman.com # # # Proud Sponsor of Perl/Unix of NY # # http://www.thinman.com/puny # ############################################# __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com From chris at selkie.org Sun Feb 13 04:34:13 2000 From: chris at selkie.org (Chris Phillips) Date: Thu Jan 27 21:38:35 2005 Subject: opensource.net Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000212203413.00974100@mail.globalinteract.com> Hi there, I noticed that the domain opensource.net is not currently being used for anything. Is there any intentions for this domain in the future or could it possibly trade hands for compensation to a company that plans to use it for a legitimate open source belief? Thanks in advance. -Chris Phillips From org-c at organizenow.net Mon Feb 14 14:13:39 2000 From: org-c at organizenow.net (Rich Cowan) Date: Thu Jan 27 21:38:35 2005 Subject: open source/social change Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000214091339.007b0ae0@freenet.envirolink.org> The Organizers' Collaborative is a new nonprofit organization that is looking into how to make open source software more useful for non-profit organizations and "social change" groups. We are having a meeting in New Haven at the end of next month and we would like to have a speaker who is involved in SPI and in the NY-MA-CT-RI-NJ area. I'd appreciate it if y'all could e-mail me some suggestions as to who might be a good speaker. this is a small meeting, so we don't need a superstar to pack a large room; just someone who has some good advice for the larger audience about how to proceed. Thanks in advance, Rich Cowan Organizers' Collaborative PO Box 400897, Cambridge MA 02140 (617) 776-6176 org-c@organizenow.net www.organizenow.net From gecko at benham.net Mon Feb 14 16:24:41 2000 From: gecko at benham.net (Darren O. Benham) Date: Thu Jan 27 21:38:35 2005 Subject: open source/social change In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000214091339.007b0ae0@freenet.envirolink.org>; from org-c@organizenow.net on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:13:39AM -0500 References: <3.0.6.32.20000214091339.007b0ae0@freenet.envirolink.org> Message-ID: <20000214082441.H3704@benham.net> None of the board members are in that area... is there anyone else? On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:13:39AM -0500, Rich Cowan wrote: > The Organizers' Collaborative is a new nonprofit > organization that is looking into how to make open > source software more useful for non-profit organizations > and "social change" groups. > > We are having a meeting in New Haven at the end of next > month and we would like to have a speaker who is involved > in SPI and in the NY-MA-CT-RI-NJ area. > > I'd appreciate it if y'all could e-mail me some suggestions > as to who might be a good speaker. this is a small meeting, > so we don't need a superstar to pack a large room; just > someone who has some good advice for the larger audience > about how to proceed. > > Thanks in advance, > > Rich Cowan > > Organizers' Collaborative PO Box 400897, Cambridge MA 02140 > (617) 776-6176 org-c@organizenow.net www.organizenow.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to spi-general-request@lists.spi-inc.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.spi-inc.org > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. * http://benham.net/index.html <>< * * Debian: Software in the Public Interest: * * Project Secretary Treasurer * * Webmaster Team * * BTS Team siteROCK: * * Lintian Team Linux Infrastructure Engineer * -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/attachments/20000214/1bbe88bb/attachment.pgp From csmall at scooter.eye-net.com.au Thu Feb 24 05:38:43 2000 From: csmall at scooter.eye-net.com.au (Craig Small) Date: Thu Jan 27 21:38:35 2005 Subject: New website License Message-ID: <20000224053843.2C36898BC@scooter.eye-net.com.au> G'day, The Debian website has now changed its license to the Open Publication License. The change should be visible in a day or so. I'd like to thank those who took the time to comment on the license and especially the person who originally suggested this license. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ, PGP: AD 8D D8 63 6E BF C3 C7 47 41 B1 A2 1F 46 EC 90 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ MIEEE Debian developer