The A-Z Guide For CPAN Authors

petdance on 2005-10-10T19:47:19

The A-Z Guide To Becoming a CPAN Author Andy Lester Tuesday, October 11th, 2005, 7:00-9:00pm Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Wheaton, IL, Room 103 Abstract -------- Andy Lester will present an overview of what it takes to create a module for distribution on the CPAN, the public repository of code for the Perl community. You'll learn how to turn your code into a useful package that others around the world can use. If you've ever wanted to give back to Perl or open source, this talk will guide your way, from the first inklings of an idea, to ongoing maintenance of your software. Speaker Bio ----------- Andy has 25 modules on the CPAN, and is a regular speaker at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, Yet Another Perl Conference, and user groups around the country. He leads a department of programmers for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, IL. "Pro Perl Debugging," which Andy co-authored, has just been published by Apress. Getting There ------------- This meeting of the UniForum Chicago PerlSIG will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at the Illinois Institute of Technology Rice campus. The address of the meeting facility is: IIT's Rice Campus Room 103 201 East Loop Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Take I-88 to the Naperville Road exit. Go North on Naperville Road to Butterfield/Rt. 56. Turn right on Butterfield and proceed East to the next stoplight East (East Loop Road). Turn north onto East Loop Road (Grady's/Cozymel's Restaurants and Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corners); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road. Park in the student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance. More detailed directions and maps are available at:

http://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html http://www.rice.iit.edu/floorplan.html All UniForum Chicago Perl SIG meetings are open to the public free of charge. For additional information contact Deborah Vose at vosedj@yahoo.com or visit the UniForum Chicago web site at:

http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/

So... Update? How did it go?

GAVollink on 2005-10-17T18:53:51

How did the talk go? Everything good and well?

I note the talk and/or info related to the talk are not on any of your ususal web locations. Are you planning on sharing? If so, please drop a new journal entry about it - so I don't miss it.

Thanks!

Re:So... Update? How did it go?

petdance on 2005-10-18T05:38:09

Yeah, it was good, but I'm still working on the slides and the presentation. Bill Odom has suggested I turn it into a screencast, which I may just do.

And, just to be weird with the locations, I'll be doing my project estimation and tracking talk for the Chicago PHP User Group: http://chiphpug.php.net