[Phoenix-pm] Phoenix.pm Status

[Joel]

I am also on the list but have never been able to make it to any 
meetings.  I also live in the north
scottsdale area and could certainly attend if they were north of Dreamy 
Draw. 

Perhaps floating meetings around the valley?  Are there enough attendees 
to do that?

Joel

Victor Odhner wrote:

>Doug, could you jot down a quick list of chores needing doing?
>
>Also, it's probably time to review who we are and why we're here.  Can 
>anyone tell us how many people have been subscribing to the list, how 
>many have been making it to meetings, and where they live?  Maybe we 
>should all check in with some profile information, including geography. 
>  I'll start.
>
>I have not made any meetings yet, but have benefited from the list from 
>time to time.  I live at Thunderbird Rd. and the SR51 and work 8 miles 
>east of there at Raintree and the 101, so my convenient reach for 
>meetings and GTs is sort of an oval with foci at the Scottsdale and Sky 
>Harbor airports.
>
>Personal profile:  I am a seasoned Unix programmer and use a dual boot 
>XP/Linux system at home.  I programmed in Burroughs/Unisys ALGOL from 
>1968-1980, in Honeywell COBOL and PL/I from 1981-1995, in Unix C and 
>shells since 1988, and in Perl for 11 years.  I'm now mostly in C with 
>bits of shell and Perl; anything ad hoc I will definitely do in Perl.  I 
>did Perl CGIs almost exclusively during 2000-2003, and know enough to do 
>anything I need to do in Perl.  But I only rank as a "Perl User" 
>according to Tom Christiansen's rankings:
>
>   <http://www.redfolder.net/purelith/perl_mastery.html>
>
>... with a touch of "Perl Adept"; but I do not aspire to most of the 
>attributes of a "Hacker", "Guru" or "Wizard".  In response to the last 
>line of the "Wizard" definition, for me "the game" is always automating 
>a business process.  Many of my co-workers, who specialize in C and Java 
>and VB, come to me with Perl questions; so apparently I do more with 
>Perl than most people.  But I often Google for simple pointers.
>
>I wrote an object oriented inference engine in 1984 in Honeywell TEX 
>just for fun; but I have not done much with formal objects, though I do 
>build some three- and four-level object structures using references.  I 
>have never programmed in modperl.  For recreation I play the guitar 
>(folk, country and campfire Christian), and ride my recumbent bike 
>around the Valley.  I'd like to teach English as a Second Language.
>
>Thanks,
>Vic
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