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'''Adam Kennedy''' is an [[Australia]]n [[Perl]] [[programmer]], and one of several [[CPAN]] administrators. Under 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 contribution leaderboard.<ref>http://thegestalt.org/simon/perl/wholecpan.html</ref> AdamKennedy 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, which is available for use by any registered CPAN author. He is a frequent presenter at open source conferences such as [[OSDC]], [[O'Reilly Open Source Convention|OSCON]], and [[YAPC]] as well as the Perl QA hackathons.

AdamKennedy 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 16m16 m+ lines of code in CPAN), Portable Perl<ref>http://search.cpan.org/dist/Portable/</ref> (aka "Perl on a Stick") and [[Padre (software)|Padre (a Perl IDE)]]. He has also been a strong advocate of platform equality for Perl on Windows, and started both the Win32 Perl Wiki and the Strawberry Perl distribution for Windows.

==PPI==

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Portable Perl<ref>http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_on_a_stick</ref> is the first Perl distribution suitable for installation to portable flash memory devices, iPods, mobile phones, cameras, etc. The first release was distributed on USB thumbdrives at OSCON 2008.<ref>http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/26/0623256</ref> Initial work for this project was funded by a grant from The Perl Foundation.

==Talk Bibliographybibliography==

Adam Kennedy has spoken at a number of technical conferences worldwide, including at [[O'Reilly Open Source Convention|OSCON]], [[OSDC]], [[Linux.conf.au]], and numerous [[YAPC]] events. These talks include:

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*[http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Win32 Perl Wiki]

*[http://padre.perlide.org/ Padre - Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment]

*[http://www.perl.org/ The Perl Programming Language]

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