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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">OK, so awesome news...<br>
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The Linux server donated by John Fields is online and ready to
rock. Next time we meet, we'll start building the awesome things
on it that we talked about and planned during our meeting last
Wednesday, like the daemonized SpamMeNot application with the
embedded Catalyst controller and DBIx::Class backend, and
eventually the web application that will power our own website.<br>
<br>
These things will start out simple, and then they will grow, as we
grow together. At our next meeting we'll be doing some database
design for our application in a hackathon format, so you're going
to get some exposure to <b>SQL</b> on Linux. Please be ready to
bring a laptop and a friend.<br>
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Our development server is at <b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://perl.atrixnet.com">http://perl.atrixnet.com</a></b>
because it's hosted out of my home lab for the time being, and I
have lifetime free dyndns for the atrixnet.com domain due to a
generous gift by the dyndns organization several years back in
support of my long-time involvement in Perl.<br>
<i><br>
Please don't attempt to SSH into the server right now.</i> Your
IP segment will be automatically blacklisted after a few failed
attempts, and it only accepts SSH keys anyway (no passwords).
Please wait to receive your SSH key at our next meeting or contact
me privately to talk about getting an account set up if you'd like
to poke around before then. Access will be subject to an approval
process including having personally met with John Fields and/or me
as a primary requirement.<br>
<br>
Remember that our project files are hosted on <a
href="https://github.com/tommybutler/dfwpm.git">github</a> and
you can hack on them at any time. If you haven't gotten
contributor permissions, just ask on the list.<br>
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Now, the rest of this email you can skip if you don't like
touchy-feely stuff. This is just an expression of my gratitude to
you good folks and doesn't have anything technologically pertinent
to the announcements above.<br>
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My personal motto is to always <i><b>"keep improving"</b></i>,
and while I would never attempt to assert my own beliefs or
feelings on others, I do know that this core principle of open
source and Perl in general will carry us forward to good things in
the future as we apply it in our monthly gatherings. We meet
together, we learn, and we work in order to improve ourselves and
that is a lot of fun.<br>
<br>
Thank you for being a DFW Perl monger. Thank you for coming to
our meetings. Thank you for following the mailing list. Thank
you for your contributions, great and small, that help us <i><b>"keep
improving"</b></i>.<br>
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-- <br>
Tommy Butler, John Fields<br>
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