[tpm] September meeting: Lightning Talks!

[Alex Beamish]

Hi All,

Thanks to the hardy souls who took part in the August meeting last week for
my Frankenstein's monster talk on coding standards. We ended up having some
really interesting discussions. I used jitsi for this meeting, and it
seemed to work fine, with the only proviso that everyone except the speaker
had to be muted during the presentations -- otherwise a lot of audio
bounced back from the presenter.

Fulko mentioned xxdiff, which is available from http://furius.ca/xxdiff/
although my browser told me the site wasn't safe -- so I installed it using
apt-get (on Ubuntu) which worked fine. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm
looking forward to it.

Seneca mentioned a couple of modules that she uses for testing,
Test::MockModule, DBD::CSV, SQL::Statement and Hook::Lexmap. We were
discussing simulating a database using CSV files at the time -- that's
something I'd like to learn more about.

I have already received an offer of two Lightning talks for September, one
from Olaf and one from Patrick. At YAPC::NA (now The Perl Conference),
these talks are pretty strictly limited to five minutes, time limits aren't
as strict with this group -- we just expect the talks to be on the short
side -- and they are not limited to Perl, pretty much anything tech-related
is fine. If I could get two or three more I think we'd have a full slate.

Thanks to everyone who comes out to these meetings -- we'll be virtual for
a while, but I'm looking forward to having a beer with everyone once this
is over.

Cheers,

Alex

-- 
Alex Beamish

Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3
Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/
Chair, Sponsorship Committee, TPF / https://www.perlfoundation.org/
Baritone, Operations Manager / Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions /
www.northernlightschorus.com
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