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FYI:

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:41 PM,   wrote:

>  It looks like you/Madison and Austin were our two YAPC::NA 2012
> submissions for this year.

So now we need to write a few clever stuff the ballot box scripts?


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> So now we need to write a few clever stuff the ballot box scripts?


yup

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:58 PM,   wrote:
> jt wrote:
>> So now we need to write a few clever stuff the ballot box scripts?

> yup

'course I'd rather go to Austin - I've *been* to Madison but ...


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----- Original Message -----

From: jt@plainblack.com

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Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 3:37 PM

Subject: [MadTalk] Re: Fwd: YAPC::NA 2012: Madison vs. Austin

jt wrote:

> 'course I'd rather go to Austin - I've *been* to Madison but ...

Austin is a great city. Been there many times. My brother-in-law lives there. It's culture is very much like Madison. Lots of night life. Lots of entertainment. Very little industry. Very high tech. Plus, it's also a capitol city and a university town.

That said, the weather there is 100+ F all summer long. I won't be dissatisfied if Austin gets the bid, but I will be a bit disappointed.

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On 5/23/11 3:27 PM, afbach@gmail.com wrote:
> 'course I'd rather go to Austin - I've *been* to Madison but ...

Funny.  I had exactly the same thought.  Austin is a nice place.

jon

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> Funny.  I had exactly the same thought.  Austin is a nice place.

But you haven't been to YAPC in Madison. Also, you have both been put on notice! How dare you secretly wish for us to fail!

I wouldn't call this secretly wishing. They have marked themselves for Very Bad Things. I'll fetch the wet noodles.

On 5/23/11 4:58 PM, doug@plainblack.com wrote:
> I'll fetch the wet noodles.

Woohoo!

jon

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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM,   wrote:
> How dare you secretly wish for us to fail!

Hey, I started this by planning to cheat for Madison - plus, what kind
of secret is it, if I put in an email? I still thing writing a clever
box stuffer (what was that one a while back? Guy had a very nice write
up of the Perl he used to make it work, taking advantage of some small
flaw in their one vote per IP a day scheme ... ended up stacking the
results so the first letter of the top N entries spelled out "All your
base ... " or something similar ...) is a worthy project.  I just plan
to employ one for each ballot box.


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> Hey, I started this by planning to cheat for Madison - plus, what kind
> of secret is it, if I put in an email? I still thing writing a clever
> box stuffer (what was that one a while back? Guy had a very nice write
> up of the Perl he used to make it work, taking advantage of some small
> flaw in their one vote per IP a day scheme ... ended up stacking the
> results so the first letter of the top N entries spelled out "All your
> base ... " or something similar ...) is a worthy project.  I just plan
> to employ one for each ballot box.

Back in the late 90's Showtime had a poll on their site to vote for "movie of the week" or something like that. It relied on a cookie. I just wrote a little Perl program to fork 20 times and submit the form every second until I got what movie I wanted them to play. =) So yeah, I know a thing or two about ballot stuffing.

Anyway, the ballot in this case takes place via email between the board members I think. So that will be a bit more difficult. You'll have to find out who the individuals are that get a vote (medium difficulty), fake an email from them to Josh (easy, unless it's on a mailing list in which case they'll be notified of their fake email), and then intercept any real email they send to Josh (pretty difficult).

Methinks we should just take our chances with the real process. =) Afterall, Austin and Madison are both great cities.

Although, looking at the fact that the Austin web site hasn't been updated since 2008, and they have virtually no traffic on their mailing list, I'm starting to wonder how they can put together a conference at all. We have more messages in this single thread than they've had in the past several months total.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:17 AM,   wrote:
> We have more messages in this single thread than they've had in the past
> several months total.

Yeah, well consider the topic - cheating!  I do see, from the May APM list:
http://root.mendacity.com/mailing_list.html
....
We're getting the Perl Mongers band back together.  Also, we are putting in
a bid to host the Next YAPC conference with the Houston Perl Mongers.

Appears Houston's a little more active.

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