[Lancaster] Fw: ANNOUNCE: Proposed North Of England Perlmongers group

[Mark Williams]

Calling all Perl people :-
Mark

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 16:47 +0100, charles colbourn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Any chance you could circulate this announcement on your mailing list?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Charles.
> 
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> Thanks to the comments of various people over the last few days at YAPC::EU,
>  I seem to have talked myself into arranging a perlmongers group.
> 
> Currently there's a big gap in the map between Nottingham and Edinburgh,
> relieved only by a red dot in Hull. While that would be OK-ish for me (at
> least some of the time) it's not a lot of help for perlers in Leeds,
> Manchester, and points further north and west - I guess Nottingham is
> reasonably close for those in the Sheffield area. The WYPUG.pm group listed
> at pm.org seems to be inactive. From conversations with the potential members
> who were present at YAPC::EU, the idea would be to have quarterly meetings,
> varying venue to try and keep things fair to everyone. Manchester and Leeds
> are candidates for a first meeting, as they are reasonably central and well
> served by public transport.
> 
> We're provisionally calling this the NorthOfEngland.pm group. Anyone
> interested in joining can subscribe to the temporary mailing list
> http://g0n.net/mailman/listinfo/northofengland.pm. When you subscribe to the
> list, please post a message introducing yourself, giving some indication of
> where you're located.
> 
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