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<p class="MsoNormal">Mongers, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> First off, the vote… I got one vote for keeping them separate. There was also ONLY one reply.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> With that in mind, this month we’re going to join the Code Craft guys (<a href="http://www.meetup.com/codecraftgroup/">http://www.meetup.com/codecraftgroup/</a>) on Wednesday, January 28<sup>th</sup>, at Conversant. Same
place, different night. I’m excited to see the way that they are doing things, and maybe with a larger group, we’ll be able to continue the great conversations that we’ve been having, but with a larger audience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> The second order of business, after two years, the mongers lunch is being cancelled. The last quarter of last year, I was the only one that showed up. A number of people said that they would come to a lunch meeting, but
we just didn’t have the turnout that I had hoped for.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I’ll update the web site with both of the changes above.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Now to a different note. I don’t know if you saw the email from our friend David McDuffee, but Perl Mongers is putting together a booth @ SCALE (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x). He is looking for help, and in
addition to getting the word out about Perl, he is throwing in a goodie bag of passes, a shirt, and more. If you want to help out, drop him a line - <a href="mailto:mcduffee@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcduffee@gmail.com</a>. SCALE is Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday February 19-22 at the LAX Hilton. I’m going to see what I can do to be there on Friday. Hopefully you can help out too.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Finally, there is a pull movement afoot. It is being called the "2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge". There are a number of links that describe the challenge here:
<a href="http://perlmaven.com/2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge">http://perlmaven.com/2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge</a>. The gist of it is that each month you will get a module to look at and submit an improvement as a pull request. This project is a great
way to get exposed to other engineering styles as well as be part of the open source scene. I’m planning to participate, and I encourage you to as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">As always let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I’ll see you on the 28th<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Peter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#D3A92D">PETER</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOWEN</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Manager, Software Engineering <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Work</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959"> 818-575-4599</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#595959"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">30699 Russell Ranch Rd., Suite 250, Westlake Village, CA 91362</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#595959"><br>
<a href="http://www.conversantmedia.com/"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">conversantmedia.com</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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