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

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:11:27PM -0700, Chris Simmons wrote:
> >> 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

One of the problems is that organizers keep moving away.  Helen moved to
Seattle a while back, and I just moved to Victoria.  So, if you'd like to
take over leadership of vancouver.pm now's your chance (hint hint).

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