SVPerl meeting notes: Aug 5, 2010

Location: Panera Bread on Oakland Rd at Brokaw/Murphy, San Jose

Attendees: 9

• Ian Kluft (@KO6YQ on Twitter)
• Christopher Wee
• Charles Martin
• Joe Saunders
• Neil Susanto
• David Laulusa
• David Bacon
• Alex Gavrilov (@agavrilov on Twitter)
• Christopher Poda

Round table discussion; introductions, what everyone uses Perl for, what people want to learn

Christopher Wee and David Laulusa may have a meeting location for SVPerl in Santa Clara

Once we have a better meeting location, we can invite speakers. Also mini-talks on our own projects. Coding sessions were also suggested.

Possible presentation topics

• Charles Martin - perl script to check files for Open Source licensing (10min topic)
• Joe Saunders - Perl/TCL inter-language interface module (main topic)
• David Laulusa - continuous integration with Smoulder (main topic)
• David Laulusa - how to write unit tests (main topic)
• Ian Kluft - Webfetch, OpenID, etc (some main topics, some 10min topics)

Requests for topics

• Catalyst
• Perl debugging (more than Larry Wall's preference for print) what's new
• Object Oriented Perl
• threading

Next month - tentatively David Laulusa - still picking topic

Group consensus was to change meeting time to 7PM. 90 minute meeting, hard limit to be out by 9PM.