Re: Calendar for the next few months.

[ziggy@panix.com]

> So.. here's the potential events calendar for the next few months..
> We're doing second and fourth mondays because it works out much much
> better around the conferences and such.

[Slight adjustment already]

  20000515        Tech Talk: Adam on the DocBook XML DTD
  20000522        Reading Group: First 2 draft chapters of PATH (by mjd)

> 20000529        Perl Whirl Alaskan Cruise: Leaves Vancouver
> 20000605        Perl Whirl Alaskan Cruise: Returns to Vancouver
> 20000612        Dinner Meeting: ... TBA ...
> 20000621        YAPC 19100 (http://www.yapc.org/America)
> 20000622        YAPC 19100
> 20000623        YAPC 19100
> 20000626        Tech Talk: What I learned at YAPC 19100
  20000703        Standard meeting postponed (see below)
> 20000704        July 4th
> 20000710        Dinner Meeting: ... TBA ...
> 20000717        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> 20000718        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> 20000719        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> 20000720        The Perl Conference 4.0, Monterey, California
> 20000724        Tech Talk: (maybe, what I learned at TPC4?)

[Return to regularly scheduled mongering]

  20000807        Dinner Meeting: ... TBA ...
  20000814        Reading Group:  (?)
  20000821        Tech Talk: ... TBA ...
  20000828        Reading Group:  (?)

The idea of a reading group is less interesting than it used to be.
We tried the read-one-book-and-discuss format, and it seems to work
better than the read-two-chapters-and-discuss format.

Many, many good books have come out since we last surveyed what was 
available to discuss.  Gazing at my bookshelf:

	Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU Software
	Writing Apache Modules in Perl and C
	Mastering Algorithms with Perl
	Object Oriented Perl Programming
	Elements of Programming with Perl
	Learning Perl/TK
	Progamming the Perl DBI
	Perl and System Administration (s/b out by August)

Some old standards:

	Mastering Regular Expressions
	Effective Perl Programming
	Programming Perl
	[I know I'm forgetting other fine books]

And there are the other fine books that are less focused on Perl

	The Practice of Programming
	Refactoring
	Analysis Patterns
	Design Patterns
	Anti-Patterns
	Mr. Bunny's Guide to Java
	The Deadline
	The Mythical Man Month

May, June and July are quite hectic for the Perl community.  I don't
think we can schedule much more than we already have for those months.
If the reading group is going to kick-in again, August seems a
reasonable time to pick off one (or even two?) tomes for discussion.
(Apache: The Definitive guide makes a nice companion to 
 Writing Apache Modules.... for example.)

Questions?  Comments?  Suggestions?  Requests?  

Z.

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