[Dub-pm] Anyone going to the Irish Open Source Technology Conference?

Tim Bunce Tim.Bunce at pobox.com
Wed Jun 4 04:56:36 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:40:52AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> What is it with Perl users in Dublin?
>> (London PM is big, active, and has great time.)
>> I'll try promoting dublin-pm during my talk.
>
> We irish people are very peculiar.  It's not that we don't use perl, 
> because we do.  Or that we don't use DBI, because we do, and we love it. 
> And we all love bitching about inferior languages like PHP and about how 
> skanky they are,

(And they do the same about Perl so the world is kept in balance.)

> It's probably more an issue of getting a critical mass of people together.  
> There are a couple of overlapping cliques in Dublin, namely the linux.ie 
> bunch and the SAGE crowd.  Might be worth mentioning this talk on their 
> mailing lists?

Yes! Please do, let us know how that goes.

Tim.


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