Since I have been lounging in Amsterdam recently and rotting my brain with VBScript, I have been attemding the Amsterdam.pm meetings and have thoroughly enjoyed them. kudra covered the main points, which were fascinating, and I thought I would fill in some of the interesting "trivia" bits.

I have, of course, finally met kudra. She's an interesting person and well worth the trouble of getting to know (of course, now she's going to kill me for all of the '/msg kudra's she'll undoubtedly receive :). ar0n was also there as was abigail. Johan Vromans is also a member, though I am not aware that he's ever been to the Monastery. After the meeting, ar0n and I caught a train back to Centraal Station in Amsterdam before he headed off to his home in Hoorn. He's further proof to me that monks in general seem to be a pretty good lot. So far, I've met 8 monks (that I'm aware of) and have come away thoroughly impressed. Go pat yourselves on the back, now :)

Note: I asked permission before relating the following information.

abigail mentioned that he was chatting with Nathan (Torkington, I assume) on IRC and was asking what was going on with Perl 6 and Nathan called Larry Wall who stated that Perl6 infomation will not be released immediately. Apparently, Larry wants to produce something that will last for the next 10-20 years (I can't remember the exact timeframe mentioned, but you get the idea). Since that is Larry's intent, he does not want to rush the Perl6 process. If you're holding your breath, let it out as nothing is going to happen soon.

Also, I have good information that *something* may be happening regarding TPJ. However, I can't say what it is as it was mentioned that this might not be public knowledge. Please don't try to /msg me to find out what's up. I won't tell you. I'm just dropping that bit so that those of you (like me) who have TPJ subscriptions can know that the issue is still alive.

Incidentally, if anyone has any tidbits of what the heck convinced Earthweb to stop publishing TPJ, I and other monks would love to know what happened. I only received one issue before they stopped publishing.

Cheers,
Ovid

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