APM: Activity?

[Gary Warman]

I appreciate it. Any support is great. Like I said, I think Austin deserves a better Perl community. Enough of Austin on Rails and such; may the perl mongers forever mong perl. Lol



On Jun 3, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Jack Lupton <jacklupton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gary,
> 
> I used to love the Perl monger meetings here in Austin. There were
> always very interesting presentations and discussions. Unfortunately
> there were a couple of scheduled meetings where no one else showed up.
> It was at a time when it was very difficult for me to make the time to
> attend. I lost interest. It seems like most of the people I knew who
> were interested in Perl either left the area or became more interested
> in Ruby. I've been learning Ruby. The problem I'm having is with
> versions and gems versions. RVM looks easy on the surface, but then
> everything seems to break - especially on deployment. I don't ever
> remember having that problem with Perl.
> 
> Want to see a well run user group? Go to the Austin PHP meetup. I'm
> not a fan of PHP, but those guys run great meetings. The presentations
> are excellent. One of the groups leaders, Logan Lindquist, takes
> videos of all the presentations and makes them available online. There
> are raffles, prizes and beverage subgroup meetings!
> 
> It would be great to once again have Perl monger meetings. Count me in
> and let me know if there is anything I can do to assist.
> 
> Jack Lupton
> 
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Gary Warman <warman.t.gary at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Aloha!
>> 
>> I've noticed that this perlmongers group doesn't seem to really get much
>> activity, if any activity at all. Now, I don't know about you, but I find
>> that a crying shame. After taking a decent break from perl due to some
>> personal issues, I'm busy reimmersing myself in the culture, and I know it
>> would be nice to have a group of people who grok perl local to my area, so,
>> for those of you who still get these and read them, why not get this started
>> up again? I must also confess an ulterior motive, as there's a rather
>> influential developer who is coming to Austin next year, and if we can get
>> this PM group up and running again, then hell, we can organize meetups and
>> such, and help initiate new people into the perl lifestyle. But in the same
>> vein, I can begin organizing a talk and conference with this guy, as well as
>> a few other folks that I know would love to give a talk.
>> 
>> There's always the YAPC's, but, who wants to wait for a conference when we
>> can have our own meetups? Austin deserves a perl culture, a perl lifestyle.
>> Let's give it one!
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Gary Warman
>> 
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