Perl Mongers
The Perl Mongers organize user groups for the Perl programming language and offer services and support. You have been part of the Perl Foundation since 2000 .
history
The Perl Mongers were founded in 1998 by brian d foy as an independent organization. He founded the first group, the New York Perl Mongers (NY.pm) at the First O'Reilly Perl Conference in 1997. The “.pm” alludes to the usual file extension for Perl modules , “Perl Mongers” is a backronym . Originally it was Foy's idea to name the group after the regular expression / New York Perl M ((o | u) ngers | aniacs) * / , but the name Perl Mongers caught on.
Shortly after the announcement of the founding of NY.pm, Chris Nandor started the second Perl Mongers group in Boston . It was followed by Washington, DC , Los Angeles and St. Louis . By mid-1998 there were groups in Atlanta , Chicago , London , Minneapolis , Montreal , Philadelphia , San Francisco and Seattle .
Then at the Second O'Reilly Perl Conference in August 1998, Brian D. Foy, David H. Adler, and Adam Turoff helped start over 100 new groups. They provided resources such as web hosting , mailing lists and discussion options for group leaders. On the other hand, in the early days, Foy was very careful that as many people as possible participate in the Perl Mongers as an umbrella organization. So he prevented the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers from Michigan from calling themselves Grand Rapid's Perl Monkees .
At the end of 1998 there were already numerous groups worldwide, including in Amsterdam , Lisbon , Melbourne , Stockholm , Sydney and Vancouver .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ brian d foy on oreilly.com
- ↑ White Camel Awards: 2004 Recipients
- ↑ Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian d Foy: Introduction to Perl . O'Reilly, 2009, p. 365, ISBN 978-3-89721-887-1