- Perl Mongers
Perl Mongers is part of
The Perl Foundation and provides services toPerl user groups.Perl Mongers was created in
1998 as a stand-alone organization byBrian D Foy who formed the first Perl users group, theNew York Perl Mongers , or NY.pm, in1997 at the "First O'Reilly Perl Conference". The ".pm" plays off the conventional file extension for a Perl module and "Perl Mongers" is abackronym for that. Originally, Foy's idea was to name the group after the Perlregular expression /New York Perl M((o|u)ngers|aniacs)*/, but "Perl Mongers" became the popular expression of that.Soon after NY.pm announced its formation, the second Perl Mongers group was started by
Chris Nandor in Boston. Others followed, in the District of Columbia, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. By the mid-1998, groups had formed in Atlanta, Chicago,London , Minneapolis,Montreal , Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. By the end of 1998, there were also groups inAmsterdam , Blacksburg, Champaign, Dayton,Lisbon ,Melbourne , Pittsburgh,Rhode Island ,Stockholm ,Sydney ,Grand Rapids, Michigan , andVancouver .At the "Second O'Reilly Perl Conference" in
1998 , Foy,David H. Adler andAdam Turoff helped to create over 100 new Perl user groups by providing a means for people to connect with others in their area. Perl Mongers provided services includingweb hosting ,mailing list s, and user group leader discussions.The Grand Rapids Perl Mongers initially wanted to call themselves the Grand Rapid's Perl Monkees, but Foy wouldn't let them. In the early days of Perl Mongers, he was concerned with the unity of effort and tried not only to start new user groups, but get groups to participate in the Perl Mongers framework as an overriding organization.
In
2000 , Perl Mongers became part ofThe Perl Foundation where it continues its mission to organize and serve Perl user groups.In
Dave Cross 's2005 Perl Mongers Census, he recorded 178 active Perl user groups.External links
* [http://www.pm.org/ Perl Mongers main site]
* [http://ny.pm.org/ New York Perl Mongers]
*The [http://london.pm.org/ London Perl Mongers] (one of the largest PM groups)
* [http://bath.pm.org/ Bristol and Bath Perl Mongers] (one of the friendliest PM groups ;-) )
* [http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_Mongers Asia-Pacific Perl Mongers] from [http://perl.net.au/ perl.net.au]
* [http://www.pm.org.ve/ Venezuelan Perl Mongers]
* [http://www.pm.org/census/ Perl Mongers census]
* [http://seattleperl.org Seattle Perl Users Group] (Seattle.pm)
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