Hey guys,<br><br>I was chatting with Andy Lester, main contributor to PerlBuzz.com and author of WWW::Mechanize, ack, Module::Starter, and others you've probably heard of or used. He's given talks at YAPC and OSCON as well. He's interested in coming down and possibly giving a presentation to KC.pm. He'd be willing to come for free since he's only 8-10 hours of driving away.<br>
<br>I was just curious what others would think, especially such a proposal coming from a JAPH that's never attended a physical meeting. I'd probably use this as an opportunity to become involved, despite the long distance relationship (I live in Manhattan).<br>
<br>If the group is interested, I think he'd want a place to present slides, so I'm not sure if the usual venue would work or not. He'd be likely to talk on his latest interest, which is rethinking CPAN (though, I haven't asked). This is a budding project intended at trying to redesign CPAN to more readily answer questions like the recent DBIx::Class versus Class::DBI question discussed last week on this list.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Sterling<br>