about/index.xml
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<!ENTITY copy "&copy;">
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<page keywords="about us" title="About London Perl Mongers">
<item title="What is London.pm?">
<p>
London Perl Mongers is a group of people who use <a
href="glossary.html#perl">Perl</a> in their work or personal
programming projects and like to meet and talk about it.
</p>
<p>
London.pm have technical and social meetings, have a mailing
list, an IRC channel, and fit in to the larger <a
href="glossary.html#perlmongers">Perl Mongers</a> organisation.
</p>
<p>
Curiously, London.pm members aren't confined to London or
even the UK, but live all around the world.
</p>
</item>
<item title="When do you meet?">
<p>
London.pm social meetings are held on the day after the first
Wednesday of the month. This usually means the first Thursday of
the month.
</p>
<p>
Technical meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of
every other month, although this sometimes moves to take into
account the Perl conferences around the world.
</p>
<p>
Additional "heretics" social meetings are held when the
first day of a month is a Thursday.
</p>
</item>
<item title="How come meeting dates are so complex?">
<p>
Thereby hangs a <a href="faq.html#heretics">tale</a>.
</p>
<p>
However, don't worry too much about the rules for when meetings
are. Reminders are posted regularly to the mailing list, and
there's a <a href="/meetings/">page on this site</a> which is
kept up to date with forthcoming meetings.
</p>
</item>
<item title="Where is the mailing list, and what's it for?">
<p>
You can <a href="/mailman/listinfo/london.pm">subscribe to the
london.pm mailing list</a> (also referred to occasionally as
'london-list' or 'london.pm@london.pm.org') or read the <a
href="/pipermail/london.pm">archives online</a>.
</p>
<p>
The mailing list is for general discussion of Perl in London,
but there is no rigourously enforced topic. There are quite a
lot of things that come up as <a
href="faq.html#runningjokes">references and in jokes</a> and
there are some things you should <a href="faq.html#spoilers">be
careful about doing</a> on list as you can annoy people.
</p>
</item>
<item title="I don't want that much mail. Is there an alternative?">
<p>
In addition to the general list, there's also an <a
href="/mailman/listinfo/london.pm-announce">announcement-only
list</a>. This only receives about four or five mails a month,
so might be more to your taste.
</p>
</item>
<item title="You mentioned an IRC channel.">
<p>
Several members of the group use the IRC channel #london.pm on
the perl.org network. Connect to irc.perl.org, and /join
#london.pm
</p>
<p>
We have a fairly wide variety of <a
href="/mailman/listinfo/bots">bots</a> on channel; there's a
short <a href="irc.html">guide to the channel</a> so you know
who's who.
</p>
</item>
<item title="What have London.pm achieved?">
<p>
London.pm have <a href="camel.html">sponsored a camel</a> at
London Zoo for two years, organised the first <a
href="http://yapc.org/Europe/2000/">YAPC::Europe</a> conference
and raised a chunk of the initial funding for sponsoring <a
href="http://www.yetanother.org/damian/">Damian Conway</a> via
YAS. London.pm members have spoken at all of the major Perl
conferences, including TPC, YAPC::NA and YAPC::Europe and the
German Perl Workshop, and several of our members have authored
<a href="/reviews/">books.</a>
</p>
<p>
We also have a server, penderel, which hosts this web site and
out mailing lists.
</p>
<p>
London.pm members have authored scores of CPAN modules, and
contributed to the <a
href="http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/">NMS</a> and <a
href="http://www.tt2.org/">Template Toolkit</a> projects,
amongst others.
</p>
<p>
You can see a leader board of London.pm CPAN contributers <a
href="/who/leaderboard.html">here</a> - it is automatically
generated from the 02packages list every hour or so.
</p>
</item>
<item title="How can I get in touch with the leader?">
<p>At the time of writing, Greg McCarroll is the leader of London.pm</p>
<p>
He follows a distinguished alumni of founding leader Dave Cross,
Paul Mison, Mark Fowler and Simon Wistow.
See the <a href="history.html">history page</a> for more details.
</p>
<p>
You can send mails direct to whoever the current leader is by
emailing <a
href="mailto:leader@london.pm.org">leader@london.pm.org</a>.
</p>
</item>
<item title="Can I find out more?">
<p>
Yes; in addition to the pages mentioned above about the <a
href="list.html">mailing list</a> and <a href="irc.html">IRC
channel</a>, we also have a section on <a
href="faq.html">frequently asked questions</a>, a small <a
href="glossary.html">glossary</a>, a page about our <a
href="history.html">history</a> and another about the <a
href="camel.html">camel</a>, as well as a page of <a
href="general.html">general advice</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you still have questions, why not join the mailing list and
ask there?
</p>
</item>
<item title="About the site">
<p>
Designed by <a href="http://www.chimpfactory.com">www.chimpfactory.com</a>,
developed by copying Mark's <a href="http://london.pm.org/~mark/ttxpath">code</a>
and 'tweaking', pulled together by <a href="leo.cuckoo.org">leo.cuckoo.org</a>
and a host of authors. london.pm.org is graciously hosted by
<a href="http://www.exonetric.com/">Exonetric</a>.</p>
<p>
Created with Template Toolkit, XML::XPath and Perl!
</p>
<p>
© 2003-2006 in a GNUish way; please ask before reusing or repurposing content.
</p>
</item>
</page>
about/index.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE london.pm [
<!ENTITY copy "&copy;">
]>
<page keywords="about us" title="About London Perl Mongers">
<item title="What is London.pm?">
<p>
London Perl Mongers is a group of people who use <a
href="glossary.html#perl">Perl</a> in their work or personal
programming projects and like to meet and talk about it.
</p>
<p>
London.pm have technical and social meetings, have a mailing
list, an IRC channel, and fit in to the larger <a
href="glossary.html#perlmongers">Perl Mongers</a> organisation.
</p>
<p>
Curiously, London.pm members aren't confined to London or
even the UK, but live all around the world.
</p>
</item>
<item title="When do you meet?">
<p>
London.pm social meetings are held on the day after the first
Wednesday of the month. This usually means the first Thursday of
the month.
</p>
<p>
Technical meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of
every other month, although this sometimes moves to take into
account the Perl conferences around the world.
</p>
<p>
Additional "heretics" social meetings are held when the
first day of a month is a Thursday.
</p>
</item>
<item title="How come meeting dates are so complex?">
<p>
Thereby hangs a <a href="faq.html#heretics">tale</a>.
</p>
<p>
However, don't worry too much about the rules for when meetings
are. Reminders are posted regularly to the mailing list, and
there's a <a href="/meetings/">page on this site</a> which is
kept up to date with forthcoming meetings.
</p>
</item>
<item title="Where is the mailing list, and what's it for?">
<p>
You can <a href="/mailman/listinfo/london.pm">subscribe to the
london.pm mailing list</a> (also referred to occasionally as
'london-list' or 'london.pm@london.pm.org') or read the <a
href="/pipermail/london.pm">archives online</a>.
</p>
<p>
The mailing list is for general discussion of Perl in London,
but there is no rigourously enforced topic. There are quite a
lot of things that come up as <a
href="faq.html#runningjokes">references and in jokes</a> and
there are some things you should <a href="faq.html#spoilers">be
careful about doing</a> on list as you can annoy people.
</p>
</item>
<item title="I don't want that much mail. Is there an alternative?">
<p>
In addition to the general list, there's also an <a
href="/mailman/listinfo/london.pm-announce">announcement-only
list</a>. This only receives about four or five mails a month,
so might be more to your taste.
</p>
</item>
<item title="You mentioned an IRC channel.">
<p>
Several members of the group use the IRC channel #london.pm on
the perl.org network. Connect to irc.perl.org, and /join
#london.pm
</p>
<p>
We have a fairly wide variety of <a
href="/mailman/listinfo/bots">bots</a> on channel; there's a
short <a href="irc.html">guide to the channel</a> so you know
who's who.
</p>
</item>
<item title="What have London.pm achieved?">
<p>
London.pm have <a href="camel.html">sponsored a camel</a> at
London Zoo for two years, organised the first <a
href="http://yapc.org/Europe/2000/">YAPC::Europe</a> conference
and raised a chunk of the initial funding for sponsoring <a
href="http://www.yetanother.org/damian/">Damian Conway</a> via
YAS. London.pm members have spoken at all of the major Perl
conferences, including TPC, YAPC::NA and YAPC::Europe and the
German Perl Workshop, and several of our members have authored
<a href="/reviews/">books.</a>
</p>
<p>
We also have a server, penderel, which hosts this web site and
out mailing lists.
</p>
<p>
London.pm members have authored scores of CPAN modules, and
contributed to the <a
href="http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/">NMS</a> and <a
href="http://www.tt2.org/">Template Toolkit</a> projects,
amongst others.
</p>
<p>
You can see a leader board of London.pm CPAN contributers <a
href="/who/leaderboard.html">here</a> - it is automatically
generated from the 02packages list every hour or so.
</p>
</item>
<item title="How can I get in touch with the leader?">
<p>At the time of writing, Greg McCarroll is the leader of London.pm</p>
<p>
He follows a distinguished alumni of founding leader Dave Cross,
Paul Mison, Mark Fowler and Simon Wistow.
See the <a href="history.html">history page</a> for more details.
</p>
<p>
You can send mails direct to whoever the current leader is by
emailing <a
href="mailto:leader@london.pm.org">leader@london.pm.org</a>.
</p>
</item>
<item title="Can I find out more?">
<p>
Yes; in addition to the pages mentioned above about the <a
href="list.html">mailing list</a> and <a href="irc.html">IRC
channel</a>, we also have a section on <a
href="faq.html">frequently asked questions</a>, a small <a
href="glossary.html">glossary</a>, a page about our <a
href="history.html">history</a> and another about the <a
href="camel.html">camel</a>, as well as a page of <a
href="general.html">general advice</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you still have questions, why not join the mailing list and
ask there?
</p>
</item>
<item title="About the site">
<p>
Designed by <a href="http://www.chimpfactory.com">www.chimpfactory.com</a>,
developed by copying Mark's <a href="http://london.pm.org/~mark/ttxpath">code</a>
and 'tweaking', pulled together by <a href="leo.cuckoo.org">leo.cuckoo.org</a>
and a host of authors. london.pm.org is graciously hosted by
<a href="http://www.exonetric.com/">Exonetric</a>.</p>
<p>
Created with Template Toolkit, XML::XPath and Perl!
</p>
<p>
© 2003-2006 in a GNUish way; please ask before reusing or repurposing content.
</p>
</item>
</page>