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'''Adam Kennedy''' is an [[Australia|Australian]] [[Perl]] [[programmer]], and one of several [[CPAN]] administrators. HeUnder his CPAN author id of ADAMK, he is the maintainer of over 200 [[Module (programming)|module distributions]] on CPAN which places him at the top of the CPAN leaderboard <ref>http://thegestalt.org/simon/perl/wholecpan.html</ref>. Adam is notable as the first maintainer of more than 200 CPAN modules, many of which he has adopted from other authors and included in his Open Repository <ref>http://svn.ali.as/</ref> which is available for use by any registered CPAN author. He is a frequent presenter at open source conferences such as [[OSDC]], [[OSCON]], and [[YAPC]] as well as the Perl QA hackathons <ref>http://qa-hackathon.org</ref>.

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'''Adam Kennedy''' is an [[Australia|Australian]] [[Perl]] [[programmer]], and one of several [[CPAN]] administrators. He is the maintainer of over 200 [[Module (programming)|module distributions]] on CPAN which places him at the top of the CPAN leaderboard <ref>http://thegestalt.org/simon/perl/wholecpan.html</ref>. Adam is notable as the first maintainer of more than 200 CPAN modules, many of which he has adopted from other authors and included in his Open Repository <ref>http://svn.ali.as/</ref> which is available for use by any registered CPAN author. He is a frequent presenter at open source conferences such as [OSDC], [OSCON], and [YAPC] as well as the Perl QA hackathons <ref>http://qa-hackathon.org</ref>.

Adam has developed significant module contributions for the Perl community, particularly in the area of tools to improve the development and build toolchain such as PPI <ref>http://search.cpan.org/dist/PPI/</ref> (a Perl parser), CPAN::Metrics<ref>http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Metrics/</ref> (generate metrics on the 16m+ lines of code in CPAN), Portable Perl<ref>http://search.cpan.org/dist/Portable/</ref> (aka "Perl on a Stick") and Padre<ref>http://padre.perlide.org/</ref> (a Perl IDE). He has also been a strong advocate of platform equality for Perl on Windows, and started both the Win32 Perl Wiki <ref>http://win32.perl.org/</ref> and the Strawberry Perl <ref>http://strawberryperl.com/</ref> distribution for Windows.

==References==