From michael.kroell at uibk.ac.at Wed Oct 5 01:47:46 2011 From: michael.kroell at uibk.ac.at (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Kr=F6ll?=) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:47:46 +0200 Subject: [Innsbruck-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Potential group project: The Perl Cookbook Message-ID: <4E8C19B2.8040404@uibk.ac.at> FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pm_groups] Potential group project: The Perl Cookbook Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:14:53 -0500 From: G. Wade Johnson To: pm_groups at pm.org Ben Thomas and I were discussing the fact that The Perl Cookbook is somewhat out of date and wondered if we could set up a project for Houston.pm to try to bring some of the recipes up to the standards of Modern Perl. As we discussed it, I realized that modifying a large number of these recipes would quickly exceed the bounds of "fair use" should O'Reilly decide to complain. So I contacted them through the user group program. The short form is that O'Reilly is at least provisionally interested in the idea of a community project to update the Cookbook. They have done other community-based cookbooks in the past, with some success. The question is, would more Perl Monger groups want to join in the fun/work on this? Depending on the details that we are still ironing out, there would likely be a website collecting new and updated recipes. We'd probably want the source for the solutions on something like github. O'Reilly would want the ability to collect a subset of the recipes (with input from the community) to form a new edition of the book, if the project goes well. The website would continue to be available for updates and contain all recipes, not just those included in any book. I've pitched the initial idea to my group. (Without some of the details at the moment.) Would any other groups be interested in joining in? If you are interested, I'd be glad to forward the information I sent to my group. I've also got a call next week with my O'Reilly contact to iron out more details. Input from the larger Perl Monger community would definitely help with that. Who is interested? G. Wade -- "No Boom today. Boom tomorrow, There's always a boom tomorrow." -- Ivanova, "Grail" -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups From michael.kroell at uibk.ac.at Mon Oct 10 00:43:30 2011 From: michael.kroell at uibk.ac.at (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Kr=F6ll?=) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:43:30 +0200 Subject: [Innsbruck-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Perl Weekly and the Perl Mongers Message-ID: <4E92A222.9070408@uibk.ac.at> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pm_groups] Perl Weekly and the Perl Mongers Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:29:23 +0200 From: Gabor Szabo To: PM Groups Hi, There are many people who like to get their Perl-related news by visiting a web site or via an RSS feed or even Twitter but there are also a lot of people who would like to get only selected news items in their in-box. There are about 13.000 people subscribed to more than 200 Perl Monger lists yet only a fraction of that number follows the Perl related blogs. The reason I set up the Perl Weekly newsletter: http://perlweekly.com/ is to reach those people who prefer the e-mail format. In the 2 months since I started the newsletter it managed to get 1400 e-mail subscribers. Most of that came via referrals. Many came when people recommended the newsletter on their Perl Monger mailing lists. I'd like to reach even more people so I'd like to ask you to 1) Check out the Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ (if you have not done that yet) 2) If you find it a good source of news, then send an e-mail to your Perl Mongers group recommending them to subscribe. thank you in advance Gabor -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups From michael.kroell at uibk.ac.at Thu Oct 27 00:50:56 2011 From: michael.kroell at uibk.ac.at (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Kr=F6ll?=) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:50:56 +0200 Subject: [Innsbruck-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Giving another push to the Perl Weekly? Message-ID: <4EA90D60.8060702@uibk.ac.at> Ist wirklich sehr praktisch und nicht spammy! lg, michael -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pm_groups] Giving another push to the Perl Weekly? Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:58:04 +0200 From: Gabor Szabo To: PM Groups The Perl Weekly is a newsletter sent out every Monday morning to more than 1600 addresses with 10-15 Perl related news items of the previous week. It helps you keep up-to-date with the latest development in Perl, CPAN and the Perl community, even if you don't have time to follow those on a daily base. It is curated by Gabor Szabo, long time Perl developer and Perl trainer. To sign-up visit http://perlweekly.com/