[svlug] NEXT WEEK: PenLUG meeting 05/28/2009

[Bill Ward]

This email has links to the wrong location for the meeting.  It is at
the Island Drive location in Redwood Shores.  See www.penlug.org - but
hurry, it starts in 1/2 hour!

My apologies for any confusion.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM,  <bill at wards.net> wrote:
> PENINSULA LINUX USERS' GROUP (PenLUG) PRESENTS:
>
>   +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   |Date:    |Thursday, May 28, 2009                                     |
>   |---------+-----------------------------------------------------------|
>   |Time:    |6:00 - 8:00 PM                                             |
>   |---------+-----------------------------------------------------------|
>   |         |Bayshore Technology Park                                   |
>   |Location:|1300 Island Drive                                          |
>   |         |Redwood City, CA 94065                                     |
>   |         |Suite 106 - Training Room                                  |
>   |---------+-----------------------------------------------------------|
>   |RSVP:    |Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=94050795632|
>   |         |or mail rsvp at penlug.org                                    |
>   +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>   Agenda:
>
>     * 6:00 PM Free pizza arrives
>     * 6:15 PM Free book giveaways or other prizes
>     * 6:30 PM Presentation begins
>     * 8:00 PM Meeting ends
>
>  Parrot Virtual Machine
>
>   Parrot hit 1.0 in March of this year. A virtual machine like no other,
>   Parrot targets dynamic languages such as Python, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, it
>   hosts a powerful suite of compiler tools tailored to dynamic languages and
>   a next generation regular expression engine. This talk teaches the skills
>   needed to get started hacking in Parrot, particularly in working with the
>   compiler tools to write a new language or extend an existing one.
>
>  Allison Randal
>
>   Allison is a C hacker, architect and lead developer of Parrot, chairman of
>   the Parrot Foundation, co-author of "Perl 6 & Parrot Essentials", and
>   founder and president of Onyx Neon Press. She also works for O'Reilly
>   Media, planning the program for their Open Source Convention.
>
> RSVP
>
>  Although it is not required, we like to have an idea of how many
>  people to expect, so if possible please email rsvp at penlug.org if you
>  are planning to attend.
>
> GETTING THERE
>
>  For information on getting to the meeting, please see:
>    http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/DrivingDirectionsOpenStreetMap
>    http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/TransitDirectionsOpenStreetMap
>    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1370+Willow+Rd,+Menlo+Park,+CA+94025
>
>  Traffic on 101 can be pretty bad in the evening, so we encourage you
>  to check traffic conditions before driving by dialing 5-1-1 on your
>  phone or visiting www.511.org, and if possible to take public transit
>  (best bet: bicycle via Caltrain) or carpool to this meeting.
>
> MORE INFORMATION
>
>  See www.penlug.org for more information.
>
>
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