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Melbourne Perl Mongers
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Website: melbourne.pm.org
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Meetings
In general, Melbourne Perl Mongers meets monthly on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. From time to time, the Open Source Developers' Club meetings occur in this timeslot instead.
Meetings start at 6:30pm and are held at:
Level 1 180 Flinders St MELBOURNE VIC 3121
After the meeting, interested Perl Mongers visit a nearby pub for dinner, drinks and socialising. This is a great networking opportunity.
(please add late-arrival procedure)
2008 Meeting dates
- Wednesday, January 9th 2008
- Wednesday, February 13th 2008
- Wednesday, March 12th 2008
- Wednesday, April 9th 2008
- Wednesday, May 14th 2008
- Wednesday, June 11th 2008
- Wednesday, July 9th 2008
- Wednesday, August 13th 2008
- Wednesday, September 10th 2008
- Wednesday, October 8th 2008
- Wednesday, November 12th 2008
- Wednesday, December 10th 2008
Current meeting plans
Future meeting topics/ideas
- Coverage of Perl 6 ideas implemented in Perl 5 modules
- Perlish interaction with users
- prompt and answer (which looks more like just printing and reading from STDIN)
- dialog type prompting
- Simple GUI prompting
Volunteered topics
- Web development and HTML::Mason by Kirrily Robert
- Further mod_perl2 modules by Scott Penrose
- Source filtering by Alfie John
- A new genetic algorithm by Simon Taylor
- Enterprise Change Management using RT by Alec clews
Meeting history
Past meetings are listed by year, not all meetings are listed. To see what they covered and to add any feedback on them please visit:
- 2008 meeting history
- 2007 meeting history
- 2006 meeting history
- 2005 meeting history
- 2004 meeting history
- 2003 meeting history
- 2002 meeting history
Mailing lists and resources
The general members mailing list can be found at http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm/ . Archives of past mail are available.
Bookshelf
Melbourne Perl Mongers has many books members are welcome to borrow.
About Melbourne Perl Mongers
Melbourne Perl Mongers was first created by Kirrily Robert on the 30th July 1998. It had a few casual meetings over the next few years and then when Netizen dissolved in 2000 and Kirrily moved to Canada, meetings stopped and the list went quiet.
Melbourne Perl Mongers was recreated in December 2001, with a trip first to dinner and then off to see "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring". Once it appeared that there was renewed interest in monthly meetings, myinternet kindly offered to host them. Scott Penrose and Paul Fenwick opened the first new Melbourne Perl Meeting to a crowd of 20 on February 13th, 2002.
Since then, Melbourne Perl Mongers has held regular monthly meetings, some of which have featured visits by Damian Conway, Brent Chapman (author of Majordomo), Stas Bekman (of mod_perl fame) and many other interesting people.
A timeline of Melbourne Perl Mongers history also exists.
Official Details
Official Name: Melbourne Perl Mongers Inc
Official Address: C/- myinternet Limited, PO Box 650, Carlton South, Vic 3053
ABN: 81 807 645 184
Melbourne Perl Monger Committee members
- Scott Penrose (President)
- Leif Eriksen (Vice-President)
- Alec Clews (Secretary)
- Ben Marsh (Treasurer)
- Simon Taylor (Member)
- Alfie John (Member)
- Stephen Edmonds (Member)
Members
A list of Melbourne.PM members can be seen at Melbourne.PM Users.
Modules worked on by Melbourne.PM members
- Paul Fenwick: Finance::Quote, Business::Payroll::AU::PAYG, SCUBA::Table::NoDeco
- Scott Penrose: Business::AU::ACN, Business::AU::TFN, Device::ParallelPort, Sys::Hostname::Long
- Rob Casey: CGI::Upload, Data::ACL, Slurp, Tie::MLDBM, Win32::FileTime
- Leif Eriksen: tidyview
Open Source Developers' Conference
At the end of 2003, Scott Penrose suggested that Melbourne Perl Mongers host a YAPC::AU. A volunteer committee of Melbourne Perl Mongers gathered together to organise this event. Along the way it was decided that the conference could be even better if it were to allow the Python and PHP programmers to become part as well. Thus the first Australian Open Source Developers' Conference was born. This conference has run on 1st - 3rd December 2004, 5th - 7th December 2005 and 5th - 8th December 2006. The next edition will be run 26th - 29th November, 2007 in Brisbane.
