[Melbourne-pm] Reminder: Perl Monger's Meeting 14th Feb

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This months meeting is sponsored By Flatrate Recruitment.

Hi All,

Just a reminder about the  meeting tonight.

 
        Date:           Wednesday 14th February 2007
        Time:           6:30pm                                                       
        Location:       Level 8, 14 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne                
			(The usual place)

(If you are late a notice will be posted with a mobile to call. Someone will come down and let you in)

* First up we will have a talk from Andrew Stuart about some excellent Perl related career oppurtunities.  Andrew and Flat Rate Recruitment are sponsoring this meeting by providing pizza and drinks. A big thank you to Andrew and Flat Rate Recruitment.

* The talks tonight will be Lightning talks about some of the large number of useful modules available on CPAN.  Currently we have talks voluteered by:

Alfie John
Simon Taylor: AI::Genetic -  A pure Perl genetic algorithm implement
     Touching on:                                                                    
       roulette-wheel selection                                                      
       tournament selection                                                          
       fitness functions                                                             
       what a "fitness landscape" is                                                 
       and the trouble with local peaks in the fitness landscape  
Rick Measham: PDF::API2: How to generate valentines cards.
Paul Fenwick: Whats new in perl 5.10

(If I have forgotten anyone please reply to this message with the details)

Don't worry.  There is still time to create a talk and we will accept talk nominations up until the start of the meeting.  If you are still looking for modules to talk about just drop over to 

http://wellington.pm.org/bin/cpan_roulette.cgi

 
take the module it suggests and tell us a bit about it.  You might include:          
                                                                                     
        * what it does                                                               
        * basic synopsis                                                             
        * possible uses                                                              
        * its cpants/kwalitee/cpan ratings                                           
        * who wrote it                                                               
        * similar modules                                                            
                                                                                     
You can do this even if you never knew the module existed before and thus have       
never used it!  Help us give a whirlwind tour of CPAN!

* After the talks are finished there will be pizza and drinks for everyone couresty of Flat Rate Recruitment.


I hope to see you there,

Ben Marsh
Treasurer
Melbourne Perl Mongers.