[Buffalo-pm] Notes from the 4th Meeting of the Buffalo Perl Mongers

[Kevin Christopher]

Notes from the 4th Meeting of the Buffalo Perl Mongers
June 12, 2003

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS:

Thursday, July 10, 2003
242 Bell Hall (subject to change)
7:00 pm
UB North Campus

Kevin Eye will report in the YAPC::North America conference being held
this week at the Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A

Jason Parker-Burlington will give a presentation on CGI::Application.

Thursday, August 14, 2003
242 Bell Hall (subject to change)
7:00 pm
UB North Campus

Jim Brandt will report on the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
being held July 7-11, 2003, in Portland, Oregon.

Kevin Eye will give a presentation on mod_perl.

This summer, I'll be working on getting some more Perl gurus here in the
Fall to speak.


EXPANDING MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE:

One suggestion is that we communicate with CS departments at Buff State,
RIT, U of Rochester, Niagara University, and other schools in the region,
to let them know about our meetings and what we'd like to accomplish. If
you have any suggestions of CS instructors, programmers, sysadmins, etc., 
at WNY institutions other than UB, please forward contact information to
me.

At UB, we'll contact the Bioinformatics "Center of Excellence" to try to
get the Center staff aware of our group's meetings and the value of Perl
in bioinformatics and other genetics research.

WEB SITE / PROMOTION

I'll be developing content to put online and incorporate into a
information package for press, etc. I'd also like any suggestions for
online/print resources on the history of perl, its use at universities and
businesses, statistics, success stories, etc.

Also, it seems that there's a lot of bad information about Perl floating
around; I'd really be interesting in hearing your anecdotes and
experiences with the misconceptions of coworkers, instructors and online
sources.

On the subject of the site, at the previous (May) meeting Rob Raux
volunteered to work on the buffalo.pm.org site during his spare time this
summer.

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I'll be in touch soon with updates, etc. I hope everyone's having a great
summer!

- Kevin Christopher