Starting next month we will be having a Perl Mongers (perl user group) meetings every second Wednesday at 6.30pm at the ViaWest building.
If you didn't know, this is the same night and building that the Provo Linux Users Group (PLUG) meets in, just one hour earlier. This should give us a good 45 minutes in which to meet. You can go to the PLUG site (<http://www.plug.org>) and see directions to ViaWest's building. Some things that need to be decided: Name of the group. I originally had Provo Perl Monger's but that has died. We have the chance to start anew with the title. What do we want out of this group? I'd like some place where I can network, learn how to program more perlishly and effectively. Also, I'd like to provide support and help to those who are learning perl. Finally, I'd like to see technologies that I don't have time to experiment with on my own without seeing it done first. (Hmmm ... that sentence doesn't quite make sense, but I hope you know what I mean). Some suggestions have been brought up: Have a group project. Take a single aspect of a major application and really teach it each meeting. E.g., mod_perl and what can be done and how with each of the hooks into the apache life cycle. So, one meeting we would spend the entire meeting learning about the different ways to handle the Authentication hook, the next we'd focus on the Authorization hook, and so on. Have a monthly puzzler or two. Something along the lines of "What does this bit of code do?" or "I want to do *this*. How?" Have a monthly focus on a particular module (a la Perl Advent Calendar <http://www.perladvent.org>). Hmmm ... perhaps a lightning talk on a module each month ... Anything else? The same thing applies for spiffs as they do in PLUG. We get people to review books and the publishers will notice and gives us more swag. Please feel free to chime in with any ideas you have. Alan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
