[oak perl] What Talk Subject?

[M. Lewis]

I'm probably the most junior of the group. I'm sure I would get some
useful information from most any topic.

If I were to pick, I would pick #2 then #3 (if it is geared towards
using OO modules)

M


On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 22:12, George Woolley wrote:
> I asked Dan Meriwether (see http://www.delux.com)
> if he would be willing to give our group a talk. 
> He said he would be glad to and suggested that he
> 
> > could talk on data munging (esp. HTML), writing web agents with LWP,
> > Object Oriented perl, or, if not off-topic, defending a domain in a UDRP
> > suit (http://www.delux.com/UDRP/) or some other such.
> 
> Personally, I'd be quite happy with any of the of above topics.
> Actually, with Dan I'd probably be OK with almost any topic.
> 
> I said I'd get some feedback from our group.
> Based on limited knowledge of the people in our group my initial thoughts are:
> 1) data munging (esp. HTML) - not good with focus on HTML
>         because more than one person in our group is not interested in HTML.
>         but if focused elsewhere, might be a good topic.
> 2) writing agents with LWP - good topic
> 3) OO perl - good topic, but too broad
>         but when narrowing it, could be tricky to include everyone
>         maybe Using and Writing OO Modules would work    
> 4) defending a domain - not good
>         because, as he suggests, it's off-topic
> 
> Your thoughts are welcomed and requested. Help!
> I'm not attached to the above, 
> but it does reflect, roughly, my current awareness of the group.
> So do let me and us know what you think.
>     -- George
> 
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