Over the upcoming Christmas break, I want to give my kid some direct insight into open source development and the process of software development. He may never end up being a software developer, but I'm thinking he should at least know the fundamentals and the tools involved in the process that is a big factor in our world.

And now that I have finally learned myself how to contribute a CPAN module, I thought having him, under his name, contribute a module that anyone could download and modify would help get him excited.

I don't want to pollute CPAN with something completely useless. So I'm wondering if anyone had a good idea for a simple module that did something fairly trivial but useful. He's into PC games and games on Steam and is big into League of Legends (which I know very little about). Maybe it could be related to that where it scrapes some info of the web and emails updates or something like that.

Any thoughts or ideas are greatly appreciated!

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