[Buffalo-pm] Buffalo PM Special Meeting -- Guest Speaker: Jim Keenan

[James Keenan]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Jim Brandt wrote:

> Hello Mongers,
>
> As you've seen from Dan's previous email, we're calling a special Perl
> Mongers meeting to accommodate a guest speaker. Jim Keenan will be
> coming to town and he's offered to give a talk. The subject is "Taking
> Over Maintenance of an Existing CPAN Module."
>
> Tuesday, March 28 (that's tomorrow)
> 8 PM
> 242 Bell Hall
> UB North Campus
>
> (We're meeting Jim for dinner at Buffalo Tap Room
> [http://buffalotaproom.com] around 6PM if you'd
> like to join us.)
>

Got the details. See you at 2309 Eggert Rd at 6:00 Tuesday.

> For those of you who don't know, CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive
> Network, which is a huge repository of free Perl code to do just about
> anything you can think of.
>
> CPAN has been around for over 10 years now, and for various reasons
> module authors can come to a point where they can no longer maintain
> their modules. That's where they need to pass the module off to a new
> maintainer. Jim will talk about how to handle this process smoothly.
>
> Who is Jim Keenan?

If you find a better answer than the one I gave, send me an e-mail.

jimk