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Olaf Alders arranged to have Dave Cross come speak at a meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers recently, and the video has now been posted on the TPRF channel. Here's the link to the Youtube video: link
Update: Made the URL into a link. And how long have you been visiting this site? Goof.
For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.
Years ago, a few people decided during the Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) that it would be a good idea to join forces, ideas and knowledge and start a group to monitor vulnerabilities in the complete perl ecosystem form core to the smallest CPAN release. The goal was to follow legislation and CVE reports, and help authors in taking actions on not being vulnerable anymore.
That group has grown stable over the past years and is now known as CPANSec
The group has several focus areas, and one of them is channeling CVE vulnerability issues.
In that specific goal, a milestone has been reached:
The CPAN Security Group was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) on Feb 25, 2025. A CNA assigns and manages CVE identifiers for projects in their scope.
Our scope is vulnerabilities in Perl and CPAN Modules (including End-of-Life Perl versions) found at perl.org, cpan.org or metacpan.org, excluding distributions of Perl or CPAN Modules maintained by third-party redistributors.
CVE is an international, community-based effort to identify, define and catalog publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities. To learn more about the CVE program, visit www.cve.org.
Report Vulnerability
Vulnerabilities should be reported according to the security policy of the affected project.
For more details, see our guide on how to Report a Security Issue in Perl and the CPAN ecosystem.
The plotting functions now use PDL::Graphics::Simple (which facilitates generating the above)
The plotting functions have also had a tidy-up, and now include plotting categorical anova data with stripcharts
It uses the new PDL 2.096+ "lib/*.pd" format so it builds quicker
Any problems, please let us know by opening a GitHub issue, joining the IRC channel (both linked on the PDL::Stats page) or emailing the pdl-general list.
Olaf Alders arranged to have Randal Schwartz come speak at a meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers recently, and the video has now been posted on the TPRF channel. I've heard some of this history before, but it was really interesting to hear it directly from Randal.
For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.
Not to be outdone (much), the PDL community has made a PDL Advent calendar: https://pdl.perl.org/advent/index.html. Big up to Ea for the idea and impetus behind it.
There are a couple of episodes beyond today's (the 1st) up already, so you can binge it if you like. Or, you can keep your cool and just read one per day. I won't tell you how to best enjoy it!
The workshop will take place next year from Monday 12 May to
Wednesday 14 May at the Kolpinghaus in Munich..
The website and the call for papers are already online. We are looking forward to many interesting
presentations!
We are always happy to receive support from sponsors. If you or your
company would like to support the workshop, please contact us. We will
find a way together!
Well-known Perl author Dave Cross will be giving a talk titled Still Data Munging with Perl at 4pm Toronto time (8pm London time), on March 27, 2025. The lu.ma event page is here; please register!
Like the Randall Schwartz event, this will be a virtual event. A link will be posted to the page once we have that organized.
PS There are currently 134 people signed up for Randall's talk. I figured we'd be doing well if we got 25 people. The Perl community is so cool.
As part of year 25 of The Perl Advent Calendar, Perl luminary and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Learning Perl” Randal Schwartz will be giving a presentation entitled "Half My Life with Perl".
This event will be a live stream via Zoom. The stream URL will be provided as we get closer to the date. Please register now if you’re interested in the event, so that we know how many Zoom attendees to plan for.
Updated October 31, 2024: Sounds interesting, Alex. When is the event? Oh, you forgot that part?
This will be a virtual event (so don't worry if you can't find your passport), to be held Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 5pm ET -- Google Calendar reliably tells me that's 10pm UTC. A link to the event will be posted when it's available. So far, we have 60 people signed up -- and it's six weeks away. I don't know what the limits are for a Zoom session, but Olaf is working on arranging that.
Updated December 3, 2024: We now have an even 200 folks signed up, and I've put an arbitrary limit of 300 on this event. Thanks to TPRF for providing access to their Zoom account for this event -- it should be intriguing.
The new on-line location for Perl Mongering in Toronto is here on lu.ma. I've made the decision to move away from meetup.com because it went from cheap and cheerful, to really expensive. We have a Special Event happening in December (produced by Olaf A), and our usual and customary December social on December 19 at C'Est What? in downtown Toronto. Everyone is welcome!
I am pleased to announce we have a full slate of great, new talks for Perl Community's Winter Conference (and Science Perl Journal, Winter Issue!) - some details for the conference ...
When: December 18th (on the day of the 37th Birthday of Perl)
the "News" section was updated with releases from this year for various PDL-related modules
the "demos" section (https://pdl.perl.org/?page=demos/index, or the "Demos" link in the sidebar) was updated to have the text and output (including images, including animations) of not two but now eight PDL demos - a couple of them might be considered quite neat
the front page had some text added with something of a "why use PDL" pitch
It would be very helpful if those who have time could take a look at any of those, and comment if there are any mistakes or possible improvements (or even if they think it's good).
