Hi! Sorry for the late response.
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:49, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > We're looking for people to help continue the tradition of the Perl Advent > Calendar. Since 2000, the calendar has been produced as a fun way of > (re-)introducing the wonders of CPAN to the community through ~four weeks > of daily module reviews. For an example see last year's calendar currently > available at http://web.mit.edu/belg4mit/www/ > > Until we get something else set up, please reply regarding participation to > the list. > > "Action items" (pluses are an estimation of effort required): > + modules: > Even if you cannot allocate much effort to other parts of the > project, recommendations of modules to consider for review are > very helpful; check your bookmarks for things you've always > meant to try, and site_perl for obscure/overlooked useful > modules (perhaps beyond the scope intended by the author). > > *For now, please send these to me directly, and not the list* > Will do. > ++++ authors: > People to write the reviews, hopefully 5-8 volunteers to > reduce the workload but keep the number of people manageable. > I can do that as well. > +++++ editor (I have no problem doing this): > Organize everything, especially scheduling the authors > contributions. I can do that too. > > ++ domain name: Uri? > advent.perl.org > I cannot really help with that. > +/+++ hosting: > a (semi?)permanent home for past, present and future calendars? > perl.org? local (Duane)? > > ++ secretary/admin: > Set up a private wiki or email list for contributors to > converse. This prevents bothering others with the chatter, > and also helps to preserve the surprise for readers ;-) > > Also, do we want a CMS (with integrated RSS) or to go with > simpler freeform style of last year? manual HTML editing > around perl-tidy output and a quick hack for RSS > I can do that too as I'm sys-admining iglu.org.il which has web space (including Apache PHP and Perl CGI) and qmail+Sympa. > +++ splash image: > an interesting (libre) christmas/camelid themed image for the > calendar. Are you good with a camera? Photoshop? Inkscape? > > Perhaps a medium close-up of a christmas tree decorated with > camels and onions and sigils? > Why not use the old Advent calendar marching Camels image: http://web.archive.org/web/20060209183627/www.perladvent.org/2003/ > +/++ publicity: > Spread the word to the usual suspects and others. > I can also help with that. > +++ archive: > Permission for republishing of previous years from Mark Fowler > > Retrieve copies from him or Wayback. I had pieced together a > copy of the first year's calendar (lost by Fowler due to > system failure) but cannot locate it. I think I emailed a > copy once or twice though, and hopefully he still has it? Also can do that. So how do we start? Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
