[Auckland-pm] Is anyone out there?

Jacinta Richardson jarich at perltraining.com.au
Fri Jan 13 22:37:44 PST 2006


Evan Harris wrote:
> Hi there Dan and Jacinta
> 
> I subscribed just recently in a fit of Christmas break madness
> and was also wondering what - if anything - ever occurred here :)
> It certainly is much quieter than any other list I am subscribed to.
> 
> Oh well, at least the traffic isn't going to flood my inbox.
> 
> Hello to everybody else !

Welcome Evan,

In my experience Perl Monger lists are generally quiet, regardless of the level
of the group's activity.  Melbourne Perl Mongers for example has monthly
meetings, but probably averages 5 messages a month (usually all meeting
organisation), Sydney Perl Mongers is the same.  It's not just a Southern
Hemisphere thing either, because SPUG (Seattle PM) is much the same.  In fact
Wellington has the most active PM mailing list that I'm subscribed to.

>From time to time Perl questions are asked, but not very often.  I suspect that
this is because there are so many better places to ask questions.  For example,
PerlMonks (www.perlmonks.org) for general questions, or language struct specific
lists like the DBI mailing lists, for specialised questions.

Don't let this stop you from bring up such questions here though.

Perl Training Australia gets a fair few enquiries about Perl in Auckland, but
not yet enough to make it efficient for us to offer general enrollment training
over there.  We've still done training in and near Auckland a bunch of times,
but only for corporate bookings.  It's one of our policies to support local Perl
Monger groups, so we do what we can to achieve that.  Where possible that means
giving talks at the local user group when we do training in the region.  In
other cases, I try to offer assistance in getting the group off the ground.


If you have some ideas of what you'd like to get out of Auckland Perl Mongers,
let us know, and perhaps we can all work together to achieve that.

All the best,

	Jacinta

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