perlnews g0n Thanks to the comments of various people over the last few days at YAPC::EU, in particular [cog]'s talk on wednesday, I seem to have talked myself into arranging a perlmongers group. <p> 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 [http://www.pm.org/census/2005/444.html|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. <p> We're provisionally calling this the NorthOfEngland.pm group. Alternative suggestions are welcome (although suggestions such as 'Whippets.pm','FlatCaps.pm' etc. are likely to be ignored ;-)). <p> 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. We can register with pm.org when we've settled the geographic scope and name.<p> I'll cross post this to <p> <ul> <li>use.perl</li> <li>local LUGs</li> </ul> <p> Other suggestions and comments would be very welcome. <p> <b>Update:</b> It seems there are still some DNS problems with that domain (ISP--), if you can't resolve the link, you can still get to the mailing list by sending a mail with a subject of 'subscribe' to northofengland.pm-request@g0n.net. In the meantime I'll make Yet Another attempt to get the DNS sorted. <p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-421540"> <p> -------------------------------------------------------------- <p> <small> "If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing."<br> John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider".</small> </div></div>