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Way back at OSCON 2001, Adam Turoff (a.k.a. Ziggy) suggested that Perl needed a way to hook up people with lots of skill and experience, but little time, with people who had a desire to learn and free time, but not as much experience. In other words, we needed a Perl apprenticeship site.

Meanwhile, Ken Williams and I had just started working on the Mason book and we knew we wanted to have an example site as one of our chapters. We also knew we didn't want something like a web store. Boring! And useless too, since neither of us needed a web store. So when Ziggy announced his idea, Ken suggested that we implement it for the book. It helps us because it gives us something to fill Chapter 8, and it helps the Perl community too. Perfect!

So that's our story. Now it's your turn. If you're someone who has a neat project idea and not enough time to finish, but you think you could guide a few "apprentices", then log in over in the left menu or create a new account

If you don't have an idea but you have some free time and a desire to learn, then browse the project listings and see if there's something that interests you.

- Dave Rolsky

The code has been tweaked to work with recent versions of Alzabo (0.80+). The latest source for the site, which differs from the code in the Mason book, is now available for download here.

- Dave

Last modified: September 16, 2005 20:50

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Reefknot is a project to build tools for standards-compliant calendaring and scheduling. RFC2445, used by Lotus Notes, Evolution, and MS Exchange, is our first target. See the website for more details.

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