[oak perl] Re: Oakland subscription notification

[George Woolley]

Kester,
Well, welcome again.

Also, thanks for introducing yourself
and answering both my questions.

George

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 3:26 pm, Kester Allen wrote:
> Hello, Oakland.pm!
>
> Greetings from a new subscriber and new Oakland resident.  I learned
> of the group through a combination of perlmonks.org (*.pm groups
> exist!) and google (there's one in Oakland!).
>
> I'm interested in learning about new developments in Perl (especially
> Perl6), and getting advice about module configuration in the Win32
> world, to which I have been exiled at work.
>
> My Perl background is centered around website-scraping and scientific
> computing, primarily with WWW::Mechanize and PDL, respectively.
>
> Looking forward to meeting you all!
>
> --Kester Allen
>
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:08:30 -0700, George Woolley <george at metaart.org> 
wrote:
> > Hello Kester,
> > Glad you subscribed to the Oakland.pm mailing list.
> > Welcome!
> >
> > This is a personal message
> > from an actual human being.
> >
> > Often new subscribers introduce themselves
> > on the Oakland.pm list.
> > This seems to work quite well.
> > Please feel free to do so, if that suits you.
> > But not everyone chooses to do that.
> > For sure,
> > feel free to not introduce yourself,
> > if you prefer.
> >
> > Please feel free to post to the list anything
> > connected to Perl or the group.
> > And you may take "connected" here broadly.
> > As an alternative,
> > you are welcome to send
> > your questions, concerns, insights, etc.
> > to me via personal email.
> >
> > Oakland.pm has been having meetings on 2nd Tuesdays.
> > There's an announcement for the next meeting
> > on the oakland.pm website at   http://oakland.pm.org/
> > Here's a short version of what it says there:
> >    Tu October 12 eve in Oakland
> > If you are thinking of coming
> > and have any questions or concerns,
> > let me know.
> >
> > Our meetings usually begin with brief introductions
> > of themselves by each of the people present.
> > It would be fine to pass on that,
> > though I don't recall anyone ever doing so.
> >
> > Anyway, welcome!
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > George
> >
> > P.S. If you feel like saying,
> > I'd be most interested to hear:
> > * how you learned of our group?
> > * what you wish from the group?
>
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