[Bangalore-pm] IRC Umbrella Channel

Vasundhar bvasundhar at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 04:54:49 PDT 2013


Yaakov,

I thing my message was not clear,
#perl.in or #india.pm  both are same for me as long as we build the
community, which is more important.

Thanks for the support, and looking forward to it.

Regards,
Vasundhar


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Ya'akov Sloman <yaakov at perlfoundation.org>wrote:

> Vasundhar:
>
> To be clear, #perl.in was created for this purpose, you are familiar with
> it I assume?
>
> "#india.pm" would be misleading as there can't be an India.pm group in
> the current structure.  This is why I have started a TPF initiative called
> the "Perl in India Initiative" (PI³ or, in perl: PI^^3).  Upasana is my
> representative in-country, and the plan is to provide whatever help and
> resources we can to Perl in India.  We will be helping with marketing and
> finding sponsorship in the future.
>
> I am very happy to help and feel it is a privilege to be involved in the
> "awakening" of the Indian Perl giant.
>
> Thank you,
> Ya'akov
>
> On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Vasundhar <bvasundhar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Yaakov,
>
> I think it gives a common platform for perl guys in India to connect and
> collaborate,
> there is lot of movement between IT hubs, so if  some one from Delhi
> moving or visiting Bangalore, they can always see whats happening
> technically in these places and find speakers for BOF sessions too.
>
> Thanks for the initiative.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Vasundhar
>
> Regards,
> Vasundhar
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Chankey Pathak <chankey007 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ya'akov,
>>
>> Can you please create #delhi.pm?
>>
>> Then we'll have #india.pm for all Indian Perl mongers, #bangalore.pm for
>> Bangalore Perl mongers, and #delhi.pm for Delhi Perl mongers.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Ya'akov Sloman <
>> yaakov at perlfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, India Perl Mongers!
>>>
>>> The activity Perl community in India seems to increase every day.  One
>>> of the difficulties is the geographic diversity.  Many people have made the
>>> very sensible suggestion that an India.pm be formed.  This is not
>>> practical, such a large PM is unstable and we've learned the hard way to
>>> keep the groups local to cities or small regions.
>>>
>>> So, in an effort to bring people together in a similar way, I have
>>> created an additional IRC channel: #perl.in
>>>
>>> It is on the same network as #bangalore.pm, and so you can easily be in
>>> both channels at once.  I've established a page to get to it directly, like
>>> the #bangalore.pm page, here:
>>>
>>> http://perlcommunity.org/irc/perl.in/
>>>
>>> The connection details for other clients are the same except the channel:
>>>
>>> Server:   irc.perl.org
>>> Channel:  #perl.in
>>>
>>> The URI is: irc://irc.perl.org/#india.in
>>>
>>> Anyone already connected to #bagalore.pm (including via
>>> http://perlcommunity.org/irc/bangalore.pm/) can join the new channel
>>> using:
>>>
>>> /join #india.pm in the edit box where messages are normally typed.
>>>
>>> This channel will allow all India perl mongers to talk together, and
>>> help with the formation of new PMs.  It's not *necessarily* a
>>> replacement for #bangalore.pm but we'll have to see if people naturally
>>> just use the one channel.
>>>
>>> If you can join now, it will help Delhi.pm who is trying to repeat the
>>> successful Bangalore reboot with their own group.
>>>
>>> As always, I am here to help however I can.
>>>
>>> Be well,
>>> Ya'akov
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Chankey Pathak <http://www.linuxstall.com/>
>>
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