APM: Activity?

[Jack Lupton]

Hi Gary,

I used to love the Perl monger meetings here in Austin. There were
always very interesting presentations and discussions. Unfortunately
there were a couple of scheduled meetings where no one else showed up.
It was at a time when it was very difficult for me to make the time to
attend. I lost interest. It seems like most of the people I knew who
were interested in Perl either left the area or became more interested
in Ruby. I've been learning Ruby. The problem I'm having is with
versions and gems versions. RVM looks easy on the surface, but then
everything seems to break - especially on deployment. I don't ever
remember having that problem with Perl.

Want to see a well run user group? Go to the Austin PHP meetup. I'm
not a fan of PHP, but those guys run great meetings. The presentations
are excellent. One of the groups leaders, Logan Lindquist, takes
videos of all the presentations and makes them available online. There
are raffles, prizes and beverage subgroup meetings!

It would be great to once again have Perl monger meetings. Count me in
and let me know if there is anything I can do to assist.

Jack Lupton

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Gary Warman <warman.t.gary at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> I've noticed that this perlmongers group doesn't seem to really get much
> activity, if any activity at all. Now, I don't know about you, but I find
> that a crying shame. After taking a decent break from perl due to some
> personal issues, I'm busy reimmersing myself in the culture, and I know it
> would be nice to have a group of people who grok perl local to my area, so,
> for those of you who still get these and read them, why not get this started
> up again? I must also confess an ulterior motive, as there's a rather
> influential developer who is coming to Austin next year, and if we can get
> this PM group up and running again, then hell, we can organize meetups and
> such, and help initiate new people into the perl lifestyle. But in the same
> vein, I can begin organizing a talk and conference with this guy, as well as
> a few other folks that I know would love to give a talk.
>
> There's always the YAPC's, but, who wants to wait for a conference when we
> can have our own meetups? Austin deserves a perl culture, a perl lifestyle.
> Let's give it one!
>
> Thank you,
> Gary Warman
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