Meeting: Wednesday: 7pm: Association, Best Practice, Logging, Meeme

[Jacinta Richardson]

Oh, and Brad's prepared a talk on Pod::Usage too.  :)

	Jacinta

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Scott Penrose wrote:

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> Hello and welcome to another exciting and jam packed schedule for
> Melbourne Perl Mongers. This month we will be skipping a security talk
> (more on that next month) and doing a number of smaller talks. We will
> also be finally doing the necessary forming of an association.
> 
> Where:
>          Level 8, 14-20 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne
> 
> When:
>          6:30pm Wednesday 12th of May 2004
> 
> What:
> 
> 
>          Forming our Association (15 minutes) - Scott Penrose
>                  We will be forming an official association for Melbourne
>                  Perl Mongers as we are supposed to, to protect members
>                  and to allow us to have a bank account. Don't forget to
>                  bring your $10 if you want to be a voting member.
> 
>          Best Practice (15 minutes) - Scott Penrose
>                  A new regular will be Best Practice. I will be setting
>                  up each month one or two best practices in Perl. These
>                  will then go off to some peers to review to make sure
>                  they really are best practice. It will then be
>                  presented to Melbourne.pm. It will then be published on
>                  at least our site, maybe other places. The idea is to
>                  have a published, peer reviewed set of best practices
>                  for Perl. This should be useful for beginners as well
>                  as advanced users.
> 
>          Logging (30 minutes) - Leif
>                  Log::Log4perl addresses the shortcomings of typical
>                  ad-hoc or homegrown logging systems by providing three
>                  mechanisms to control the amount of data being logged
>                  and where it ends up at:
> 
>                  * Levels - log messages are assigned a priority. Log
>                    messages are suppressed or displayed depending on the
>                    logging system's settings.
>                  * Categories - define which parts of the system you want
>                    logged. Category inheritance allows reuse, overriding
>                    allows redefinition of settings in different parts in
>                    the category hierarchy.
>                  * Appenders - once you have a sufficient priority level
>                    in an active category, appenders allow you to choose
>                    which output devices the log data will be written to,
>                    and the format of those writings.
> 
> 
>          www.perlmeme.org (60 minutes) - Simon Taylor
> 
>                  perlmeme.org is a collection of Frequently Asked
>                  Questions, "How To" documents, and tutorials about perl
> 
>                  The site is currently in alpha testing and is
>                  piggy-backed onto another site. We plan to release the
>                  site officially in the next couple of months on a
>                  dedicated server, and we are keen to get involvement
>                  from Melbourne perl mongers reviewing pages, and
>                  suggesting or writing others.
> 
>                  This site is devoted to spreading the perl meme and to
>                  providing an easy place to find complete, working
>                  examples of good perl code. We hope that perlmeme.org
>                  can act as a conduit into the perl language, the perldoc
>                  command, cpan etc, for people who are new to perl.
> 
>                  The talk will cover:
> 
>                  * What is the perl "meme"
>                  * Why it is weak
>                  * Who we are targeting
>                  * Why we are doing this at all, (after all, perl is
>                    already well documented)
>                  * Why we are *really* doing this at all ;-)
>                  * Our design and visual aims
>                  * Our targets for the growth of the site
>                  * Early feedback
>                  * Planned features
>                  * The dedicated hosting of the site
>                  * Our sourceforge project
> 
>                  There'll be printed handouts and we will examine some of
>                  the content already on site, and ask for involvement and
>                  criticism from the audience.
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