[albany-pm] Hello Albany Perl Mongers

[James E Keenan]

On 3/26/12 3:00 PM, albany-pm-request at pm.org wrote:
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> Hello!
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> My name's Mark Fowler.  You might know me as "That guy that used to head up London Perl Mongers" or "The guy that started the Perl Advent Calendar" or "The guy that wrote Test::Builder::Tester".
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> So, I just bought a house in New Lebanon, NY, which google maps assures me is a mere 40min drive away from Albany.  Now, I'm pending visa stuff so I won't be moving into the property for a good few months yet, but I thought it might be a good idea to check out my local Perl Mongers group.
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> So,
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> - The mailing list is a little sparse.  Do you guys meet up?  Are you part of any other groups?  (NYC.pm? Boston.pm?)
> - Anything else in the area a Perl geek should know about?  Other local tech groups I might be interested in?
> - Any advice on what I should be using as a bandwidth provider?  I've hooked up Fairpoint giving me 2.5mbps (ish) down, but any idea about about anything more comparable to the double digit bandwidth I'm used to.
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> Mark
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New Lebanon appears to be far enough away from New York City -- in fact, 
far enough away from anywhere -- that the route which Google Maps lays 
out to get there from NYC is probably not the best one!

I've lived in New York State almost all my life but New Lebanon is in a 
corner of the state that I've never been in.

Well, NYC and ny.pm are several hours to the south ... but you know that 
we will always be willing to schedule an Emergency Social meeting on 
your behalf.  And, after nearly a year's lapse, we've resumed holding 
technical meetings, though perhaps not yet on a steady basis.

Jim Keenan