Re: [Philadelphia-pm] CPAN Day at the Standard Tap August 14, 6:00 PM

Thanks for setting this up, John. I have a module I'd like to put on CPAN that is a refactoring of a 10-year old bioinformatics program written in Perl. I'll contact the program's original authors and ask permission to make the module available on the CPAN. The program's original copyright and license did not specify terms of redistribution and/or modification.

I'd appreciate advice and help with this process as it would be my first CPAN module. Will trade beer for sagacity and insight - free as in beer AND free as in freedom. If anybody has experience contributing to the BioPerl module hierarchy on CPAN also this will be useful.

Thanks!
Brian Cole

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:33 PM, John Karr <brainbuz@brainbuz.org> wrote:

Several People have been blogging at blogs.perl.org about CPAN Day on
August 14. Standard Tap have offered their dining room for our use.

The Standard Tap has wi-fi but there are also several xfinity and verizon
hotspots there, so bring your laptop. While the meeting won't be the
perfect opportunity for creating awesome new cpan modules it is a great
time for light maintenance and documentation.

Don't have any modules to work on? Don't fret, you can always proofread
someone else's work. You can also look at http://neilb.org/adoption/ for
modules that are be available for adoption (the list is auto generated it
includes many modules that don't need a new maintainer). You can also work
on patches to other peoples modules.

The Standard Tap is at Second and Poplar in Philadelphia.

We have a reservation for 6:00PM on Thursday August 14.

CPAN Day officially ends at 8:00 PM EDT because the CPAN servers are
currently 4 hours ahead of us (UTC). That gives 2 hours of PM meeting to
upload your code. When I first floated this idea I suggested meeting the
day before because of this, but we'll still have two hours in which we can
upload.

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