The Joy of Collective Hacking

James E Keenan

Perl Seminar NY
October 17, 2006

Table of Contents

1. Beginnings
2. Two Years Ago This Week --
3. I First Spoke Up for Perlsemny Projects
4. Why?
5. Phalanx
6. YAPC::NA::2005 in Toronto
7. Perl Seminar NY: 2005-06 Season
8. Hackathons Become Popular
9. As Summer Turned to Fall --
10. I Posted on Perlmonks
11. I Posted on use.perl.org
13. Later, I got one comment
14. ... from an Alpha Hacker
15. Chicago Perl Hackathon Nov. 10-12
17. Is There Collective Hacking in Our Future?
18. The End