On 3/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">mock</b> <<a href="mailto:mock@obscurity.org">mock@obscurity.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:11:27PM -0700, Chris Simmons wrote:<br>> >> This list seems pretty dead, but hopefully we can breath some life back<br>> >into<br>> >> it.<br>> ><br>> >> Next, are people interested in reviving
<a href="http://Vancouver.pm">Vancouver.pm</a>? I haven't talked<br>> >to<br>> >> our facilites crew yet, but I'm pretty sure I can secure a meeting place<br>> >at<br>> >> Sophos (plenty of room, projector available, downtown location, etc).
<br>> >I'd<br>> >> like to see some discussion about this :)<br>> ><br>> >given that vancouver has few big companies using Perl (sophos,<br>> >activestate) and some of the famous<br>> >Perl community members (Peter Scott, Stas Bekman), i am little surprised
<br>> >that the pm has been very<br>> >quiet for a while. maybe everyone too busy with the real life or everyone<br>> >is going to the Seattle<br>> >pm ? :)<br>> ><br>> >though i am from toronto and our pm has been holding regular monthly
<br>> >meeting for few years now. i<br>> >hope vancouver pm revive.<br>> ><br>> >Qiang<br>><br>><br>> Exactly! Vancouver has the authors of numerous CPAN modules, from<br>> Inline::ASM to Data::Dumper, from Test::WWW::Selenium to Win32::OLE. We've
<br>> got a former Perl release manager, and the company that's given Windows<br>> users a chance to Perl. Surely we should drum up some interest!<br>><br>> -chris<br><br>One of the problems is that organizers keep moving away. Helen moved to
<br>Seattle a while back, and I just moved to Victoria. So, if you'd like to<br>take over leadership of <a href="http://vancouver.pm">vancouver.pm</a> now's your chance (hint hint).<br><br>mock</blockquote><div><br>
Alright, I'm officially staging a coup - do I have to travel to Victoria to wrest power from you, or will you abdicate willingly? ;)<br><br>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.
<br><br>Name: Chris Simmons<br>Day Job: Software Developer at Sophos (working on the Email Security Appliance)<br>Years coding perl: 2.5<br>Education: B.Sc. Computer Science (UBC)<br>Home page: <a href="http://chrissimmons.ca">
http://chrissimmons.ca</a><br>Perl Monks page: <a href="http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=582331">http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=582331</a><br>Other languages used (at one time or another): C/C++, Java, ML, Prolog, Scheme, JavaScript, Visual Basic, x86 ASM, Python
<br><br>Anything else you guys want to know?<br><br>-chris<br></div><br></div><br>