We meet at 6:30 PM on the third Wednesday of the month. This month, the meeting takes place on Wednesday, May 21st 2008.

Meetings take place in the 5th floor classroom at the Wash U Genome Sequencing Center, on the medical campus.

Address:
4444 Forest Park Parkway
St. Louis, MO 63108
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After the presentation, we adjourned to a bar called Royale. They have cider on tap and the sweet potato chips were awesome so I was happy, but according to Scott they don’t know how to make a decent caipirinha, though they swore they used cachaça.

Loads more geek-talk at the table for a couple hours, then we adjourned for the evening.

I do believe we’re on to meet next Wednesday, January 16! Same place/time:

5th floor classroom at the
Wash U Genome Sequencing Center
4444 Forest Park Parkway
St. Louis, MO 63108

6:30 PM - presentation/talk, social hour elsewhere afterwards.

Anyone have a talk they were itching to give? If not, I was thinking of giving a 15 minute demo of using the Perl JSON module and Google Maps to make your own maps.

If you’d like an account for posting updates to the site, just let us know — we’re always looking for people to help add new useful content.

There was lively discussion all evening, on topics like Google Earth, modules for translating high-ASCII into UTF8 and for parsing XML documents, where our next meeting will be, and a potential bid for YAPC::NA 2009, or perhaps a St. Louis Perl Workshop.

Regarding our next meeting, we’ve decided to give the WashU classroom a try, as it has a projector, then move to The Grind afterward. Neither of these places will have food available, so be sure to eat dinner before you come. We also noted that the meeting in November will be the night before Thanksgiving. Some were in favor of still having it that night (as we won’t have to get up for work the next morning) but Ben Oberkfell is going to set up a wiki-based poll to see if there’s more interest in moving it to the previous Wednesday.

As promised, I will be giving a presentation on Win32::OLE and Active Directory next month. The presentation will be at 6:30 in the Wash U classroom (directions will be posted later), and the Q&A will be over beer and coffee at The Grind afterward, probably around 7:15.

http://stlouis.pm.org/wiki

This is a work in progress, so feedback is always appreciated.

Also, I’m working on getting a wiki running; expect a link here shortly.

However charming the company, we had some serious discussions around changing our meeting location. We’d like to find a place more conducive to short presentations, to encourage even more content in our meetings.

Someone suggested that we might meet at Wash U in one of their rooms, and after the presentation portion, adjourn to a nearby cafe/bar for the beer portion of the evening.

If anyone has a topic they’d like to present upon, please put it together and bring it to an upcoming meeting. You don’t need to write new code for this, it could be on a topic as simple as what your favorite new module off CPAN is, and what you use it for.

We had some discussion around possibly putting in a bid to host next summer’s YAPC, as well. If anyone is interested in helping out, let’s get some ideas tossed out on the list and see if we can make this happen.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the October meeting!

Our meetings don’t have set agendas; just show up, meet new people, and have fun.

If you’re not on the mailing list to get automatic reminders about meetings, consider subscribing.  Both the perl-hackers and announce lists get automatic reminders about meetings. Archives are available from the mailing list page as well, so you can catch up on conversations you might have missed.

As our last web content guru has moved away from St. Louis, we’re also looking for people to help post summaries of meetings and other useful things up here on the website. If you’re interested, email ben (at) stlouis.pm.org.