[columbus.pm] Meeting next thursday

[Michael Benedict]

I think I could take care of the webpage, if necessary.  It would be
awesome if we could CVS it and I could post tasks to the list and let
someone take care of it if I get really busy.  That is just my thoughts,
but if we can't I have no problem giving it a good try.

As far as feedback, I am a little upset about not getting to meet, but
I very much understand the reasons.  I think you are as frustrated with the
situation as anyone.  I also think it is a good idea to just go for the
meeting anyway and try to build from there.

As far as the documentation, I have had a little idea floating around in my
head for a week now.  I fell in love with LaTeX, and knowing how many
people want to learn perl, I thought it would be really cool if we started
to work on a book.  It would be a big project, but there is no time limit
to get it done and we could have several perl whizzes working on it. Put it
on a CVS server, let people work on parts of it, make it in LaTeX, book GPL
it, and see what happens.  We all have  a lot of talent in different areas,
and we could just attack our own chapters and then peer review each.  Just
put up some postscript on our webpage and if things went well we could even
try to get Cop-Ez or someone to carry out a bit of a production run and try
to sell them, and get some money for the club.  Granted, this is just the
beginning of an idea, and I wanted to post it to see if it excites anyone
else and if there are any bad parts of my plan.  You just gave me the
perfect opportunity to do so.

    peace,
        Mike

J Alex wrote:

> Ah, I am kissing the hopes of a meeting place with a projector and stuff
> goodbye for now.  How about next thursday at a coffee shop.  We met at
> Caribou Cafe in granville the first time last year, I believe.  Also, I
> am seriously considering picking up a motorcycle.  Anyone with a bike
> want to have me tag along and learn from ya?  I will probably take the
> written test on Friday and pick up the bike when my tax return gets
> here. =)
>
> I would love to have someone take over the web page editing also.  I
> guess I was denying how busy I really am.  Look at me...it's almost 1am
> and I work at 8am....pitiful.  Anyway, come(or have come) to a couple
> meetings and express interest in doing the web site and it's yours to
> play with all you want.
>
> And does anyone want a Dual P3/450 scsi box?  Here's my failed ebay
> posting:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=268467431
>
> I would take 1200$ for it...it's like 6 to 7 months old and has some
> pretty nice hardware.  This will make it even easier for me to afford a
> bike.  It's a hardcore box for linux/freebsd.  My employer is letting me
> bring home a pii box, so I don't mind giving up this one.  I don't mean
> to use this list as classifieds, but if you throw it at the end of a
> valid posting,it shouldn't kill ya.
>
> Also, can someone please complain about this group if you are unhappy
> with it?  I mean really, give me some feedback...like "man, are you
> losers ever going to meet?" or "you need some ... to liven up the
> place".  I know you are all experts in perl, so I won't try to start a
> discussion about things again...last time I got "read the docs".  haha.
>
> One of the biggest needs in the perl community, from my point of view,
> is some good documentation and tutorials.  So many of the non-oreilly
> books are crap, and outside of the awesome perldoc stuff, there isn't a
> ton of literature.  Especially on perl/GTK.  Sure, you can program in it
> reasonably easy, but I haven't met many people who actually understand
> what the heck is going on when they use it.  Maybe we could have a
> documentation project for some application of perl.  We wouldn't need a
> projector and you could be half-drunk and still do better than "Learn
> <X> in 21 days" kind of stuff.
>
> Input...input...
>
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> Fisher College of Business
> The Ohio State University
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