Originally published at Perl Weekly 751
Hi there,
Ten days ago I participated at an online event organized by the Toronto Perl Mongers. where we had some really nice presentations about OpenQA and the Open Build Service, both written (partially) in Perl. I hope they are going to organize more such events about other projects written in Perl.
Last week I spent some time tracking down the LinkedIn profile of some of the authors who had entries included in the Perl Weekly and I also managed to include the picture of quite a few people. However I'd like to get your help to further enhance this.
All the authors are described in the authors.json file. I'd love to get your help in tracking down the missing details. For some authors we don't even have the names. Many are missing the image and the other details you might find for others. In addition I'd like to further enhance the listing by adding a link to the github and gitlab profile of each author. Would you like to help? Send a Pull-Request!
If we are already talking about contribution, we are going to have another online Perl Maven event contributing to a CPAN module. Register now!
Enjoy your week!
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Your editor: Gabor Szabo.
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