group project (was Re: Hello All!)
Steve Lane
sml at zfx.com
Fri Jul 16 12:50:03 CDT 1999
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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