[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Next DFW Perl Mongers meeting: Perl Guru Brian d Foy

Dennis ddaupert at indy.rr.com
Thu Aug 12 14:53:01 CDT 2004


Next DFW Perl Mongers meeting will be held at 6:30 pm on August 24th.

The meeting will be held at:
STARTech Early Ventures
1302 E Collins Blvd
Richardson, TX 75081

map: http://www.startechev.com/dallasmaps.htm

Metallect http://www.metallect.com has generously offered to sponser
this meeting.  They will take about fifteen minutes at the beginning
of the meeting to introduce their company and solution.  They will
then turn it over to our speaker; none other than brian d foy.

Bio from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1071:
brian d foy has been an instructor for Stonehenge Consulting Services
since 1998, a Perl user since he was a Physics graduate student, and a
diehard Mac user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first
Perl users group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl
advocacy non-profit Perl Mongers, Inc. which helped form over 200 Perl
user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the
core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone
scripts. He's the publisher of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to
Perl, and a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl
Conference, Perl University, MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, and YAPC. 
His writings on Perl appear in The O'Reilly Network, The Perl Journal,
Dr. Dobbs, The Perl Review, on use.perl.org, and in several Perl
usenet groups.

He will discuss Module::Release 
http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/release-0.23/lib/Module/Release.pm

Noppe to see you all there.

/dennis







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