Last night…

posted by Dave_Messina | May 17, 2007

Hey everybody,

Good meeting last night. Steve brought his adorable daughter Emma — he’s already got her started on a healthy diet of the old Spiderman cartoons. Winning the award for traveling the farthest is Matthew, a London.pm’er in town for a few months on business. We tried to convince him that not all American cities look like St. Louis, but somehow I don’t think he believed it.

While our fearless leader Bill took care of some “important Foundation business” on a conference call, we learned that when Michele isn’t scuba–diving in foreign lands, she takes part in ridiculously accurate medieval wars wearing full armor and whacking people with a sword. Not just with a few local folks, either. Apparently thousands of people show up to these things. As it turns out, Scott and I both used to fence (he rather seriously, me…not so much), so we’re planning a field trip to check out one of the battles. For everyone’s sake, I hope she wasn’t serious about suiting us up and shoving us into the fray…

There was some actual Perl content, too. Steve Pritchard is organizing a local hackathon to put some muscle behind a few projects that have been languishing undone. More details to follow, but mark your calendars now for the June 8-10 weekend. Add a comment to this post if you’d like to join in.

We’re hoping to turn that into a regular thing. Previously some StL.pm folks expressed an interest in adopting a CPAN module in need, so Steve’s event should be a great way to kick it off. Furthermore, he has generously offered computers and office space for such gatherings, so we could really get somewhere with a bunch of people in one place.

So stay tuned for more on that either here or on the list. Otherwise, see you there or at the next PM meeting June 20!

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March Meeting

posted by The Management | March 1, 2007

We meet again, Mr Bond.

… Wednesday, March 21, 6:30 PM.  We meet at Mangia Italiano, 3145 S. Grand (Google Map Link).

Thanks to the wonderful efforts of Ben Ricker we have the basement room available for our use.  Come down the stairs just as you enter the main door.

Our meetings have no set agenda; come, join us, eat, drink, and have fun.

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Welcome to the New Site

posted by The Management | February 23, 2007

The new stlouis.pm.org is now up and running. We hope to have a continuously updated site, as well as a wiki coming up soon. Stay tuned for that.

Mailing list are now archived, and a friendly Mailman interface is up for each list.  Check it out by clicking the “Mailing Lists” link in the top or sidebar.

The next set of meetings is shown up to the right. You can subscribe to the RSS feed with a list of upcoming meetings, for your future enrichment. Come and eat and drink with us; we meet at Mangia Italiano on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM.

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February Meeting

posted by The Management | January 30, 2007

The February meeting of the St. Louis Perl Mongers:

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Highlights from the St. Louis Perl Mongers meeting on Wed, Jan 17, 2007:

posted by The Management | January 29, 2007

We’ve decided to post meeting highlights on the web for those who could not make it. Here’s the first edition.

Head count: 9. Lots of people said they always plan to come, but remember too late, and the email reminders helped. Everyone who spoke up said that automated email reminders would help. The suggested times were: 1 week ahead, two days before, and the day-of.

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