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Title: Props to ma Peeps


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Props to ma Peeps
  • Nathan Torkington

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O-Dogg
3
Spider Boardman
  • Core maintenance
  • Unglamorous work
  • Hard!
  • 5.6.0 patches include numeric conversion,
    configuration
  • Whatever needed doing

4
Artur Bergman
  • Threads metaphor
  • Tangled knot
  • Artur is untying the knot
  • Fixing Perl internals for threading
  • Writing a Perlish (easy) threading module

5
Ask Hansen
  • Primary perl.org sysadmin
  • Mailing lists
  • Spam filters
  • Web site admin
  • Things have never run this smooth

6
Paul Schinder
  • Ridiculous amount of CPAN testing
  • MacPerl
  • Ridiculous amount of CPAN testing
  • Ridiculous amount of CPAN testing
  • Ridiculous amount of CPAN testing
  • Ridiculous amount of CPAN testing

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Do Ron Ron Kimball
  • "Call me Ronald"
  • "As in McDonald"
  • Indefatigable comp.lang.perl.misc helper

8
Peter Prymmer
  • VMS
  • Unicode vs VMS
  • Inside Big Blue

9
Alan Burlison
  • The Sun God
  • Core hacker
  • Advocate on the inside
  • Bloody nice guy

10
Elaine Ashton
  • Donated hardware
  • search.cpan.org admin
  • Says what we need to hear
  • Where are the women?
  • Don't screw over the sysadmin

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Chip Salzenberg
  • 5.004 pumpking
  • Buffer overflows fixed
  • Memory leaks fixed (almost)
  • Goal perfection
  • First human sacrifice I'd seen
  • Told us we needed perl6 long before we realized
    we needed perl6

13
Simon Cozens
  • "Meteoric rise"
  • (Bad metaphor)
  • From Simone Cousins
  • to author, Unicode hacker, internals hacker,
    perl6 wiz,
  • language-dev

14
Tim Bunce
  • DBI
  • Pumpking
  • OnePerl
  • Behind the scenes
  • Quiet, calm, collected, effective
  • Genuinely Nice Person

15
The Usual Suspects
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Jarkko Hietaniemi
  • 10,000 patch milestone recently passed
  • jhi checked in 50 of those
  • Immediate feedback
  • Encouragement
  • Quiet strength and leadership
  • Genuinely Nice Person

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Damian Conway
  • Just kidding
  • Just serious
  • Love him for what he does
  • Love him for who he is
  • Truly nice guy
  • Never a mean word
  • (I'm a bitch)

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Moral of the Story
  • Wonderful people
  • Love them
  • Thank them
  • Keep your eyes open for the hidden wonders of the
    Perl world

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  • Thank You
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