I went to the Los Angeles branch of Perl Mongers last night. It is only the second event I have been able to make. The last time I went to one was over two years ago. Each time the event has been held at my former employer's building. I can't typically make events that are on the west side on Wednesday at 7pm.

It was an ad-hoc meeting. Three presentations, but two of them really had very little to do with Perl. The other presentation was well done but seemed to be geared toward an audience that knew very little about how tie works.

With all that said I'd like to propose some topics I'd like to see presented. 1) Moose, not an introduction. A presentation that covers interesting uses of some of Moose's more powerful features. Perhaps by walking through a reasonably complex module (or set of modules). 2) KiokuDB, what the hell is it good for? I don't know anything about KiokuDB or why it exists. It sounds fantastic...but its practical application is beyond my ability to comprehend. 3) Perl asynchronous frameworks. I'd love to see a compare/contrast of POE, AnyEvent, other. I happen to be a POE partisan, but, than again, I've never used any of the other frameworks.

Given a few more minutes I could probably come up with some other topics. What's that you ask? Can I present? No, probably not. I have some fairly deep knowledge on a few of the topics, but not enough to give a good presentation. Plus public speaking is not really in my wheelhouse.