Two presentations:



1. Christopher Frenz: Advanced Information Retrieval and Extraction



Chris, author of Pro Perl Parsing (http://www.apress.com/9781590595046), will discuss topics such as using a search API to retrieve documents and extract pertinent information. Examples will include mining Web sites for C\C++ code snippets and how to deal with cases where JavaScript makes extractions significantly more difficult.



2. Augustina Ragwitz: Start Contributing to Perl, It's Easy!



The Perl community wants YOU to contribute! Whether you can barely write a line of code or have been hacking for years, you can make meaningful contributions! This session offers a high level tour of the CPAN and Perl core contribution process as well as a short tutorial for potential contributors on how to get started with patching CPAN modules and making Perl core contributions.