<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;" id="internal-source-marker_0.29738276856554513">Hello Fellow Mongers!<br class="kix-line-break">
<br class="kix-line-break">We’ve been inactive for far too long, and as the new group leader, I aim to change that.<br class="kix-line-break">The
 companies in this city are not hiring perl programmers, and we are the 
only ones that can convince them, and the local computer science / 
programming community that </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">perl</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> is the answer: not java, python, php or ruby.<br class="kix-line-break">
</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Furthermore,
 we live in one of the most popular and visited cities in the world: so 
we should be able to secure plenty of guest speakers for keynotes and 
lightning talks during our meetings. (I’ve literally already had offers from other group leaders, since yesterday.)</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I
 mainly wanted to get an idea of who all on the list is still out there,
 still interested in perl, and to touch base with them. Although, if I 
have to I’ll go kidnap some university students and train them myself to
 rebuild the group.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break">
Perl & Loathing in Las Vegas!<br class="kix-line-break"></span><a href="http://lasvegas.pm.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000099;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://lasvegas.pm.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">-- <br>Respectfully,<br><br>Chris Hart<br>Senior Internet Engineer,<br>ZeroLag Communications, Inc.<br><a href="http://www.zerolag.com" target="_blank">http://www.zerolag.com</a></font><br>