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

[Chris Simmons]

On 3/14/07, mock <mock at obscurity.org> wrote:
>
> 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).
>
> mock


Alright, I'm officially staging a coup - do I have to travel to Victoria to
wrest power from you, or will you abdicate willingly? ;)

Seriously though, I'm up for it if there are no objections. I know I'm
likely not known to most people out there (having joined the list a few days
ago), so I'll write a bit about myself.

Name: Chris Simmons
Day Job: Software Developer at Sophos (working on the Email Security
Appliance)
Years coding perl: 2.5
Education: B.Sc. Computer Science (UBC)
Home page: http://chrissimmons.ca
Perl Monks page: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=582331
Other languages used (at one time or another): C/C++, Java, ML, Prolog,
Scheme, JavaScript, Visual Basic, x86 ASM, Python

Anything else you guys want to know?

-chris
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