title: FOSDEM Talk
parent: Documentation
---

# Writing Perl Plugins

Former Nagios Plugins team lead Ton Voon gave a 15-minutes lightning talk
about the Nagios Plugins at [FOSDEM][fosdem].  He made a screencast of [the
presentation][talk] in Quicktime format (35 MB):

* [fosdem.mov][screencast]

The `check_weather` script demonstrated in the screencast is also available
for download, with additional comments:

* [check\_weather.pl][script]

Both files are also available via FTP mirrors, see our [download
page][download].

[fosdem]: https://fosdem.org/ "FOSDEM"
[talk]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/events/lt_nagios_plugins.html "Ton's Talk"
[screencast]: https://www.nagios-plugins.org/download/presentation/fosdem.mov "Screencast"
[script]: https://www.nagios-plugins.org/download/presentation/check_weather.pl "check_weather"
[download]: download.html "Download"

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