LOL, I spoke too soon. d foy is here right now training some people. I
think this guy lives here now (not really).
I do highly recommend his Mastering Perl book.
Brett
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:38:59PM -0500, B. Estrade wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:25:00PM -0500, Simon Dorfman wrote:
> > Dave Cash started the New Orleans perl mongers a decade ago or so. He got
> > out of programming a few years back and there wasn't really anyone to pass
> > on the torch to. I think the group might have petered out before that
> > though. Or maybe it stopped with Katrina.
>
> It was 2004, not quite a decade ;)
>
> >
> > Anyway, if someone wants to get it started again and there's something you
> > need Dave to do to hand over the reigns, I can put you in touch with him.
>
> My offers stands. I can't be the main POC, obviously.
>
> Here is the Houston.pm site
> http://houston.pm.org/
>
> The talks archive is at http://houston.pm.org/talks/index.html ...
> it'll give you some good ideas on what to talk about.
>
> We have the benefit of having some ppl who are really active in the
> Perl community. For example, Reini works on perlcc - in fact, cPanel
> pays him to do this.
>
> We've had brian d foy twice because he's come to give 2 training
> classes here (one Master Perl, which I was lucky enough to attend) -
> so the PM meeting was scheduled to coincide with his visit.
>
> I gave this talk back in September 2011 -
> http://houston.pm.org/talks/2011talks/1109Talk/index.html#quore
>
> I highly encourage the reformation of neworleans.pm; and one day when
> I make it back to the City, I'll finally have a chance to be active in
> meat space.
>
> Brett
>
> >
> > -Simon
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:04 PM, B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 12:43:14PM -0500, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > > > On 06/07/2012 12:40 PM, B. Estrade wrote:
> > > > >Joey,
> > > > >
> > > > >Pretty sure I am.
> > > > >
> > > > >Brett
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >> Are you on the neworleans.pm <http://neworleans.pm> list, Brett?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Have you gotten any of the chatter with the [Neworleans-pm] subject
> > > > header this morning?
> > >
> > > Nope. neworleans.pm.org also goes to a non-Perl related site.
> > >
> > > If we can get neworleans.pm.org back from the dead, I'd be happy to
> > > help participate virtually and help with the site from here.
> > >
> > > I am generally active with Houston.pm - I should be, the meetings are
> > > held 10 feet from where I sit every day at work. :)
> > >
> > > Brett
> > >
> > > >
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