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

[DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI]

I know that this was just announced, but people get busy and forget
things ;-) So here's a little reminder about tonight.

>>> "Jim Brandt" <cbrandt at buffalo.edu> 03/27/06 2:03 PM >>>
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.)

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?

Jim Keenan lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is active in New York
Perlmongers and is founder and co-moderator of Perl Seminar New York.
He
is the author or current maintainer of nine CPAN modules including
List::Compare and ExtUtils::ModuleMaker.  A frequent attendee at Yet
Another Perl Conferences, he has spoken at YAPC in Montreal in 2001
(lightning talk), twice in Buffalo in 2004, and (with Marc Prewitt) in
Toronto in 2005.  In addition to several presentations at Perl Seminar
NY, he has also spoken to Perlmongers groups in Toronto and New
Orleans.
  Long, long ago, he graduated from what was then calling itself the
State University of New York at Buffalo.  He is occasionally on
Perlmonks as 'jkeenan1' and even more infrequently on IRC #perl as
'kid51'.

For a look at some of his modules:

http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/ 

Hope to see you there.

Jim