[Thousand-oaks-pm] our meeting tonight

[Paul Jacobs]

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It was great to see four new members show up this week. We almost 
doubled the attendance from our practice meeting last month, and it was 
actually very enjoyable watching Terrence's presentation and giving 
mine, and talking to all of you. Thank you all for coming.

I forgot to mention when everyone was there, I'd like to put up a 
Members page, with a listing of whatever information we each want to 
give out (all fields optional): nickname (if desired, to indicate 
common usernames, to provide an id when a member doesn't want his or 
her real name published, etc..), name, email, instant messenger ids, 
public pgp/gpg keys, phone number, ... i'm just making this up now, 
it's all up for debate, so I'll stop there. But my initial idea was to 
post all our public keys (I hope we all have public keys, tsk, tsk.. ) 
on the website, so we could provide public authentication of anything 
produced by one of our members. I'd like to do that for myself at 
least. Daniel and I have had some issues with importing and 
transporting keys, it made me want a directory. Thoughts?

About that source to the blackjack tournament system that I passed out:
  - It's very alpha, as I said.
  - There are at least a couple of things I thought were already 
implemented but were not. To be safe, consider what I said of it's 
functionality to be the plan rather than necessarily the current state 
of the code. The two examples I've found so far are the re-generation / 
clearing of the players' memories, and awarding 1.5 units for a 
blackjack.
  - I'll try to get it posted on the website by Monday afternoon. I'm 
not totally ready to let other people play with the source yet, once I 
do I'll possibly have to coordinate changes, etc.. I want to clean it 
up first so I don't get multiple other people doing it for me in 
slightly different ways. I want to shore up the coding style, fill a 
few obvious holes.

Also.

I enjoyed presenting this code a lot tonight. It got me thinking about 
writing an article along the same lines, that basically goes over the 
source; and outlines the history, motivation, and plan for the contest 
approximately like I did at the meeting tonight. So if you have an 
opinion, I'm curious:
	Presuming I can translate/edit the presentation to written form 
tolerably well, is this just excessive hubris on my part, or is it a 
legitimately good idea for promoting the contest, the module (which 
would be released via CPAN by the time the article is submitted 
anywhere), Thousand-Oaks.pm, and (I admit) myself? Honestly.

Bug reports, even trivial ones, on the way I structured the 
presentation are very welcome. Even patches.
I reserve the right to apply them to future releases in whatever form. 
:)

- - Paul

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