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

[Vincent Li]

> 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

Ah, you are the one to reply my question regarding Inline::C last week on
perlmonks. I know you now :)

http://perlmonks.org/?node=how+to+use+Inline%3A%3AC+properly

Vincent @UBC