<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px">Hey everyone!<br></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:20px">DuckDuckGo is </span>hosting a <a href="https://duck.co/blog/post/196/the-first-global-quack-hack" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,108,197)">global open source event this Saturday, August 29th</a>.  <span style="line-height:20px;font-size:small;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You are all invited</span>.  <span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:20px">DuckDuckGo runs entirely on Perl and major portions of it are open source.  </span>The theme of the event is to improve results for developer related searches with new or improved Instant Answers.   Here are examples of some Instant Answers:</div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px">Perl Docs: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python%20pandas" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,108,197)"></a><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perl+split&ia=about" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,108,197)">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=perl+split&ia=about</a>  </div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><font color="#1f1f1f" face="Helvetica Neue, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:16.25px">CPAN Modules: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dist%3A%3AZilla+cpan&ia=software">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dist%3A%3AZilla+cpan&ia=software</a></span></font><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px">Regex Help: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=regex+help&ia=cheatsheet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,108,197)">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=regex+help&ia=cheatsheet</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px">Cron Parsing: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=crontab+*+*%2F3+*+*+*&ia=answer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,108,197)">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=crontab+*+*%2F3+*+*+*&ia=answer</a> </div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px">The event is happening virtually via Slack chat rooms (and via <a href="http://www.meetup.com/pro/duckduckgo/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,108,197)">meetup groups</a>).  If you're interested in contributing or creating your own Instant Answer, email <a href="mailto:QuackSlack@duckduckgo.com?subject=Plz%20Add%20Me%20To%20Slack" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,108,197)">QuackSlack@duckduckgo.com</a> to get access to Slack where you can chat with DuckDuckGo employees and others, get your questions answered, and collaborate.</div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px"> </div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px">Thanks,</div></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.25px">Eric (@kablamo)</div></div>