In 12 hours I leave for the Oslo QA Hackathon. Right now I'm copying all 10 Gb of BackPAN to a portable USB drive and a thumb drive. It's taking a long time. While I waited I created a Google Map for the things I need to find in Oslo (such as my hotel).
April 2 is the Oslo.pm meeting. I get into town about eight hours before that, so here's hoping that I can stay awake for it. When I went to Oslo for NPW 2006, I ended up staying up all night because nobody told me they don't turn off the sun during the summer. There I am thinking it's about dinner time and it's 1 am. I should have an easier time with the QA Hackathon because the sun actually sets. It looks like it will be nice Chicago weather too.
Now that it's Oslo time, I can start thinking about the stuff I want to do at the hackathon. Part of my task is indexing BackPAN. Besides finding modules in distributions, I also want to find packages, I think. By convention, we normally make a package per file and give it the same names, but it doesn't have to be that way. So how to find the package names given a file? I could just match the text, but I think I want to try using PPI to look for real package declarations. It's a bit easier than the normal problem since package has a bareword following it. I won't mess with those in eval. That's a nice little project for the plane ride.
Jonas from Copenhagen tells me he might come out for the weekend, and since he's training for a marathon and I'm working toward a half-marathon, I also need to go running when I get there so he doesn't kill me on a Sunday long run. That's okay. I get in at about noon and I don't get to check in to the hotel until 3. I need something to pass the time anyway. :)
