On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Andrew Hanenkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was chatting with Andy Lester, main contributor to PerlBuzz.com and author > of WWW::Mechanize, ack, Module::Starter, and others you've probably heard of > or used. He's given talks at YAPC and OSCON as well. He's interested in > coming down and possibly giving a presentation to KC.pm. He'd be willing to > come for free since he's only 8-10 hours of driving away. > > I was just curious what others would think, especially such a proposal > coming from a JAPH that's never attended a physical meeting. I'd probably > use this as an opportunity to become involved, despite the long distance > relationship (I live in Manhattan). > > If the group is interested, I think he'd want a place to present slides, so > I'm not sure if the usual venue would work or not. He'd be likely to talk on > his latest interest, which is rethinking CPAN (though, I haven't asked). > This is a budding project intended at trying to redesign CPAN to more > readily answer questions like the recent DBIx::Class versus Class::DBI > question discussed last week on this list.
I would be up for a presenter. The Kansas City Public Library (Downtown) has very nice executive style chairs (seating for ~10-15) and a projector to use. It wouldn't be to hard to book one of those rooms for an event. Jonathan _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
