[WindyCity-pm] Chicago Perl Seminar

[Craig A. Berry]

At 11:21 AM -0600 2/19/08, Joshua McAdams wrote:
>Would any of you be interested (and able to attend) a monthly
>(typically) Perl-focused seminar held downtown during the workday?  We
>are thinking about bringing in big names in Perl from around the
>country (world maybe) and would like to gauge how much interest there
>is.  Also, suggestions on days and times are very welcome, as are
>speaker ideas.

This is a great idea.  If something like 4:30-6:30 could be considered "during the workday" it might be easier for some people to knock off work early than to take a long lunch, plus more conducive to continuing into a regular Perl Mongers meeting.  But I'm ok with either.

As far as people ideas, one very crude measure of who's who in Perl-land is who contributed the most patches to the core in the 5.10 era (see list below).  Perhaps a more interesting query would be the authors of the most-downloaded CPAN modules, assuming the requisite stats are available.

% perl Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl --rank Changes5.10
2245:   nicholas
2121:   rgs
1448:   jhi
562:    stevep
525:    davem
422:    steveh
299:    craigb
226:    merijn
202:    andy at petdance.com
187:    demerphq
186:    mhx
164:    jdhedden at cpan.org perlbug at perl.org
145:    gisle
140:    hv
116:    jand at activestate.com
110:    sthoenna at efn.org
101:    schwern at pobox.com
< fewer than 100 patches snipped >

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