group project (was Re: Hello All!)

[Steve Lane]

my vote for a group project is for the help desk.
i'm a bit swamped with work (and real life :) to
be the head pimp for this one, but i'd be happy
to help out if anyone else wants to grab it.

MCSI wrote:
> 
> Hello All!
>         Sorry for taking so long to get back to you all... Im going to a trade
> show in 6 days, and Im not anywhere near ready.
>         Anyways, We had talked about a few projects we'd all like to work on.
> Today I'm going to build a faq server.  Im going to include a few simple AI
> elements ito it. I'll put my outline at the bottom of this message. I'd
> love any form of input, I'll put up the code later, if anyone's interested.
>         One thing that might be fun and interesting to do is make a perl specific
> faq server.  That would definitely help the community, and ourselves.
>         Another thing mentioned was some sort of forum.
> at www.perl.org the following list of projects needing help are:
> <snip>
> 
>      Help The Perl Institute.
>      We're always looking for volunteers. Join the tpi-advisory mailing
> list, and we'll let you know when projects are started or need manpower.
> Current projects
>      needing volunteers:
> 
>           The Canonical Perl Program
>                Perl experts can program a lot better than they can write
> about those programs, so put to death once and for all the
> "Perl-is-unreadable"
>                myth with the Canonical Perl program. It should use one
> module. One match. One substitution. One subroutine. One split. One join. One
>                reference. $#foo, @ARGV, $_. It should be one page of code,
> but be four pages long, because it describes everything it's doing in
>                excruciating detail.
> 
>                For instance, use LWP::Simple to fetch a web page, search it
> for occurrences of a bunch of command-line terms, and save those
>                <P>aragraphs to a file.
> 
>           The Perl Help Desk
>                comp.lang.perl.misc is not a help desk; newsgroups make
> lousy help desks. perl5-porters is not a help desk; mailing lists make
> lousy help
>                desks. We need a web site (with a mailling list option) that
> lets novices post questions. Experts can answer the questions, and by so doing
>                pop the question off the list. All question/answer pairs are
> saved for subsequent searches. We have a project leader, but may need
>                assistants.
> 
>           The Perl Survey
>                The usage survey on perl.org is interesting, but not very
> useful. There's a lot of information about Perl programmers, for instance the
>                industry sector they work in, how long they've been
> programming, and which modules they use, that would be much more useful to
> have
>                when advocating Perl to the great unwashed, and when
> evaluating the Perl community's own work. We'd like someone to work out what
>                information to gather, how to gather it, and then actually
> conduct the survey. We have a project leader, but need your input on the
>                advocacy mailing list.
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Also, In EFNET #perl you will find cameo appearances of your favorite web
> guru from time to time. I use the server:
> EFnet: US, TX, Houston
> irc.phoenix.net
> 6667
> efnet
> 
> Also, More info on who to contact if you wish to help perl can be found at
> http://www.perl.org/pumpkins.html
> 
> Anyway, let's get some use out of this mailing list, let me know what you
> all think!
> 
> Ken
> http://knoxville.pm.org/

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