[oak perl] What Talk Subject?

[George Woolley]

Well, as I said, I'd personally be happy with any of Dan's proposed topics.
And that includes the subject defending a domain
which is the subect off-topic was applied to.

I think your point of view on "it's off-topic" can serve us well.
So everyone, shall I just tell Dan to talk on whatever he likes 
but to keep it "loose and happy"?
Based on past experience, I expect he'd do that anyway.
But it would be fun to communicate that.
 
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 10:29 pm, David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:12:08PM -0800, 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
>
> Dave Fetter here--some of you know me from SF perl mongers, which I
> helped found.
>
> I'd say the whole "it's off-topic" thing is a bit overblown.  The
> whole "there's more than one way to do it" spirit kinda implies that
> we'd be working in things other than perl code like HTML, agents which
> often talk to non-perl things like the standard web and ftp servers,
> OO, which is originally a highly non-perl thing, domains, databases
> (relational and others), etc., etc.  Perl is about doing what needs
> doing and not getting hung up on the small sh^Htuff. :)
>
> Any topic's good, keeping it loose and happy :)
>
> Just my $.01 (that ^#%$&^^#$#@ job market's cut a lot of budgets
> lately, y'know)
>
> Cheers,
> D