At Tuesday's meeting, Jerrad recruited people to help with this year's Perl
advent calendar.  Here are the details that he sent out.  Email Jerrad (or
come on over to the discussion list) if you'd like to help out.

(Note - send module suggestions directly to Jerrad, not to the discussion
list.)

Ronald


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From: Jerrad Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:49:05 -0500
Subject: [Boston.pm] Advent calendar 2006

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*

++++    authors:
                People to write the reviews, hopefully 5-8 volunteers to
                reduce the workload but keep the number of people manageable.

+++++   editor (I have no problem doing this):
                Organize everything, especially scheduling the authors
                contributions.

++      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

+++     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?

+/++    publicity:
                Spread the word to the usual suspects and others.

+++     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?
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