*Welcome back to Autumn!* *MIT* has announced that they are *not* restoring Open Campus post-plaugue, so we'll be Pure Virtual until we find a new real-world home. If we want to do *in-person socials,* an outdoors food venue would probably be a good choice for the time being.
Our custom domain points to a Bad Place. (A Ticket has been Opened to repoint it somewhere nicer.) Meantime you can find our homepage at *https://boston-pm.github.io/ <https://boston-pm.github.io/> * *We have a pair of live remote speakers for October ! * We continue to cross-promote meetings with Charlotte PM and Boston Linux Unix. SCHEDULE Tuesday, Sept 13, 7pm ET 🇺🇸 Boston PM - (tentatively) What’s new in Perl 5.036 A group discussion of the latest perldelta <https://perldoc.perl.org/5.36.0/perldelta>. This is a JitSi meeting. The secure URL will be computed next week by this command perl -MDigest::SHA=sha1_hex -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime "%Y/%m/%d week %U", localtime; $date=strftime "Y%Y W%U", localtime; print $date; print "https://meet.jit.si/BostonPM-".substr(sha1_hex("BostonPM".$date),0,12);' (and will likely be posted here just in time, and MeetUp for RSVPs only) (And next month we’ll have coming attractions!) Weds, Sept 21, BLU - Annual Cryptology News + History - Quantum Crypto update - Bill R Boston.PM’s Bill Ricker will as usually be the entertainment for the BLU September meeting <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2022-sep>. The tradition of an annual Cryptography/Cryptananlsis/Cryptology News Update and Historical Vignette originated with hosting a PGP Key-signing part, but has survived that ceremony. I have done about half of the talks <http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/speakers/b-ricker1>; most of those meetings have attached YouTube video and slide materials. (*The audio quality is perhaps dubious prior to the Plague era as BLU had a camera but not a wireless mic.*) The featured news story in 2022 will be update on progress (& controversy) on Post-Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Cryptanalysis (and how that’s different from Quantum Cryptography). Weds Sept 28, 6pm ET Charlotte PM co-host with Charlotte Python In person meeting, co-host with Charlotte Python MeetUp; *stream* possibilities are *TBD*, title TBA. Check MeetUp <https://www.meetup.com/charlotte-pm/events/> (or Py <https://www.meetup.com/python-charlotte/>) for late breaking details. Tuesday, Oct 11, Boston PM: Ovid+LeoNerd on Corinna - OO in Perl5 Core We’ll have live remote guests *Curtis “Ovid” Poe* and *Paul “PEVANS <https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS>/LeoNerd <http://www.leonerd.org.uk/>” Evans*. “For #perl devs wondering how the Corinna #oop project is going, @cpan_pevans is now working on stage 1 of the accepted portion of the RFC. I’ve put that in the repo so you can follow along” @OvidPerl 2022-08-18 <https://twitter.com/OvidPerl/status/1560305460707827715> Ovid is the architect and Paul is the lead developer for adding a new object-oriented system called Corinna†(formerly & confusingly “Cor” into Perl 5 Core. They’ve had an open community process to develop an RFC or proposal and prototype, but until recently, without commitment for the Perl 5 Porters (P5P) to actually implement it in Perl 5. Over the summer, P5P have approved the initial Stage 1 integration into Perl Core. While we’ve had 20+ years of new OO packages for Perl5 since 5.0, this is the first actual (as opposed to proposed) overhaul of the *core* OO system in Perl 5. PEVANS’s compatible, non-Core, prototype is Object::Pad <https://metacpan.org/dist/Object-Pad>. Ovid’s recent writing on Corinna are on his blog <https://ovid.github.io/tags/corinna.html>. The Corinna project <https://github.com/Ovid/Cor> has a wiki <https://github.com/Ovid/Cor/wiki> and the RFC <https://github.com/Ovid/Cor#rfc> that proposed adding Corinna to Perl 5 Core, and the P5P-accepted Stage 1 Minimal Viable Product RFC <https://github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/master/rfc/mvp.md>. His 2021 editorial <https://dev.to/ovid/bringing-modern-oo-to-perl-51ak> explains the difference between Moose (*et al*), Stevan Little’s Moxie, and Corinna. Damian Conway posted an exultation <https://dev.to/ovid/bringing-modern-oo-to-perl-51ak> last month for the P5P approval of the Stage 1 MVP RFC. †*Corinna* is a classical allusion in connection to Curtis’s pseudonym *Ovid*, which explains the classical (and otherwise potentially NSFW) image on the MVP RFC tweet. BoilerPlate - Meetings hosted by Boston.PM are in meet.Jit.si and on 2d Tuesday. - Meetings hosted by Charlotte.PM <https://www.meetup.com/charlotte-pm/> are in Zoom and on Last Wednesdays. - Meetings hosted by Boston Linux Unix (http://blu.org) are in Jitsi and on 3d Wednesday. (*If you need to hear my rant about why Zoom’s “fixes” are inadequate, ask me off-list. Or watch my BLU Cryptology History & News annual report for the last decade.*) JITSI notes Jitsi <https://meet.jit.si> is a Free/Libre OSS project sponsored by 8x8 (an Atlassian spin-off). It is the freemium base for their added-value corporate meeting & VOIP platform. As FLOSS, it can be self-hosted; they provide a free demo server. We will currently be using the free demo server, but may migrate to a hosted server (where we can set defaults, privileges). Natick FOSS group has an updated 5-page Jitsi Help .pdf file <http://runeman.org/articles/natick-foss/jitsi/jitsi-2022-09-05.pdf>, and you can practice beforehand. (They meet 1st Thursdays, online, early afternoon - (semi)retired users.) One can use plain web mode, but you can install the browser plug-in if you like (recommended if sharing slides or terminal). There are also iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android Jitsi apps <https://jitsi.org/downloads/> which work well. JITSI keyboard shortcuts <https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts> JITSI scales fine to more people in face-sharing Brady-Bunch / Hollywood Squares mode than you can easily see at once (30ish) and if folks turn off their cameras when just listening/talking, i.e. when not commenting/presenting, it scales much higher. (If we later get more folks than will comfortably fit in Jitsi, we can set up a stream to YouTubeLive or some other platform … or upgrade to a proper panelist platform feeding a stream, but the “seminar” quality of Jitsi is fine for our level of anarchy.) I will routinely mute those not presenting so you’ll usually need to unmute to comment. Hint: Space-bar is push to talk, M is mute/unmute (on phone/tablet it’s the skeuomorphic microphone, avoid the handset hangup button!). -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
