Chicago Perl Mongers Meetings

New Modules for the New Year

Pete Krawczyk / Andy Lester / Josh McAdams

Tuesday January 9th 2007 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

The Chicago Perl Mongers is pleased to announce the return of regular meetings. In association with Uniforum Chicago, we'll be having technical meetings with presentations every 2nd Tuesday of the month, starting January 9th, 2007.

Meetings will be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Room 103. The meeting will start at 7pm and run until about 9pm.

Our first topic at our new space is "New Modules For New Year". Pete Krawczyk, Andy Lester and Josh McAdams will present a dozen cool modules that you may not have known about. Some will be useful, some will be entertaining, and all are available on CPAN. The only way to find out what they are is to attend!

There will be a drawing at the meeting for books provided by O'Reilly & Associates.

For comments or questions, contact Andy Lester (andy@petdance.com) or leave a note on the meeting wiki page.

Speaker Bio

Pete Krawczyk has been a Perl programmer and system administrator for over ten years. Currently he's a programmer at Follett Library Resources in McHenry, in addition to several other projects he's involved in. His latest accomplishment was sharing organizational duties for the Chicago Perl Hackathon.

Andy Lester is the leader of the Chicago Perl Mongers, and there are few things he enjoys more than talking about Perl. Now in his 3rd decade of professional programming, Andy works for wiki company Socialtext as the open source project manager.

Josh McAdams is behind the only Perl podcast, Perlcast, at http://perlcast.com/. He also organized, with Pete Krawczyk, the 2006 YAPC::NA conference in Chicago.

Getting to the meeting

The next Chicago Perl Mongers meeting (co-sponsored by UniForum Chicago) will be at:

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489

Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in south Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

Contact Andy Lester at andy@petdance.com for additional information about the meeting.