[Phoenix-pm] meeting proposal

[Andrew Johnson]

For the beginner-to-intermediate part, I could present an
Introduction to POD.  Some people think POD is an advanced
part of Perl, but it's really quite easy to learn (the talk
is ~15min).  Plus, once you have the basics down, POD can
be a powerful way to document your Perl source.   

OK, enough salesmanship; if the group is interested, I'd
be happy to present.  If not, that's just another set of
slides we're all spared from. :-) 

--aj


Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
__________
>
>Hello all,
>
>For those of you who prefer to think of me as the benevolent
dictator, I 
>thought I'd let you know that we are having a meeting on
Thursday July 
>29 2005 at 7:00pm at the Scottsdale Public Library, Civic
Center. For 
>the (representative-)democratically inclined, I welcome
feedback on this 
>time/location. I'll make a full anouncement once we have
a topic. 
>
>And now for the second part... the presentation / talk
portion. Once 
>again I refer you to
>
>http://web.archive.org/web/20040726180006/phoenix.pm.org/wiki/in
ex.cgi?PerlMongersIdeas 
>
>for some suggestions. Please mail your suggestions here
to the list. 
>Ideally I'd like two shorter talks -- a beginner-intermediate
one and an 
>intermediate-advanced. Scott and I both are willing to
talk about all 
>sorts of things, and other volunteers are very welcome.
Something 
>bugging you about some Perl code you're working on? Some
module you'd 
>like to see in action? Now is the time and place to get
the dirt on it! 
>
>recently mentioned suggestions (mostly by Scott... hope
he doesn't mind): 
>  * The making of _Perl 6 Now_
>  * Architecture of "Active Wiki Pages" in TinyWiki (secure
server-side 
>    execute of Perl in user-edited pages)
>  * How to parse HTML, scrape pages, and crawl sites
>  * A really horrible PDF invoice generator in Perl that'll
make you want to cry 
>  * Theory and use of Perl6::Contexts (ooh, this would
be fuuun) -- 
>    adding Perl 6 style string, integer, boolean, and reference
contexts 
>    to Perl 5 for a mondo cool code effect with greatly reduced
>    suckiness. This is another B::Generate hack of mine.
>  * Intro to Perl5 objects
>  * Using Perl for the ICFP 2005 Contest (which was all
sorts of fun) 
>  * Using (pick your favorite web-framework -- lets say
CGI::Application) 
>  * other suggestions / volunteer presentations welcome
>
>So much to talk about! The floor is open.
>
>--Brock
>
>On 2005.07.15.00.38, Scott Walters wrote:
>| Scottsdale Civic Center library sounds good.  That should
be a lot more accessible 
>| to people in Mesa and Phoenix but we might lose some
of the North Scottsdale 
>| crowd.  I sure don't have a data projector.  If enough
people have laptops with 
>| WiFi and the VNC client, we can all get the on the network
and do view-only 
>| mode off of the presenter.  Just a thought.
>| 
>| -scott
>| 
>| 
>| On  0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
>| > 
>| > Does anyone have a projector? We can meet at the Scottsdale
Public 
>| > Library (Civic Center) -- They have wifi, whiteboards,
but no projector. 
>| > 
>| > --Brock
>| > 
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