[Mpls-pm] Next meeting?

[Ian Malpass]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Jim Anderson wrote:

> Personally, I'd like to see more 'intro' talks for people that haven't
> been doing advanced perl stuff, or have only gotten into some areas.  So
> far, I think all (?) of the lightning talks have been on some advanced
> feature of perl or other, and assuming extensive background knowledge.
> We've had several topics on using advanced features of OOP for example,
> but nothing on the basics of OOP.  I'd like to see some talks oriented
> more towards people that have a basic working knowledge of Perl, but are
> interested in an intro level to get them started in an area.  I think we
> should have 1 or 2 talks that are aimed at that level.

It's odd - I never realised my RSS talk's code wouldn't actually make much 
sense to someone who didn't understand OOP syntax. But indeed it wouldn't. 
So much of CPAN assumes a working knowledge of OOP now.

Well, I'm due to be giving a talk on OOP at the next meeting, and I'd 
intended it to be an intro sort of talk.

I think I'd prefer to give a DOM talk later (especially given my inability 
to actually put together two talks last time). Perhaps I could take two 
slots on OOP instead? A lightning talk and an associated thunderclap talk? 
It might be a topic that would benefit from a bit less of a frantic pace.

Ian

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