[Van-pm] [JOB] Sophos is hiring / Vancouver.pm revival?

[Chris Simmons]

On 3/14/07, James.Q.L <shijialeee at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Chris Simmons <simmons.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This list seems pretty dead, but hopefully we can breath some life back
> into
> > it.
>
> > Next, are people interested in reviving Vancouver.pm? I haven't talked
> to
> > our facilites crew yet, but I'm pretty sure I can secure a meeting place
> at
> > Sophos (plenty of room, projector available, downtown location, etc).
> I'd
> > like to see some discussion about this :)
>
> given that vancouver has few big companies using Perl (sophos,
> activestate) and some of the famous
> Perl community members (Peter Scott, Stas Bekman), i am little surprised
> that the pm has been very
> quiet for a while. maybe everyone too busy with the real life or everyone
> is going to the Seattle
> pm ? :)
>
> though i am from toronto and our pm has been holding regular monthly
> meeting for few years now. i
> hope vancouver pm revive.
>
> Qiang


Exactly! Vancouver has the authors of numerous CPAN modules, from
Inline::ASM to Data::Dumper, from Test::WWW::Selenium to Win32::OLE. We've
got a former Perl release manager, and the company that's given Windows
users a chance to Perl. Surely we should drum up some interest!

-chris
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