Who

Studied Maths & Computation at New College, Oxford but eventually escaped mostly unscathed to regain partial sanity studying a 2 year postgrad in performance at the Royal Academy of Music. Now leading a confusing double life in London doing music by night, Linux by day.

I've been playing with computers since I was about 16 - so that'll be about 26 years of staring at some kind of screen most days. The last ten years have been increasingly dominated by Perl.

A multifacteced techi (aka jack of all trades). Spent a lot of time with VMS - no OS wars please. Has used Perl on VMS RiscOS and Windoze. First visit to london.pm in Jan 04.

Also sings in too many chamber choirs and enjoys singing in early music ensembles.

Author of the Template Toolkit. Drinks beer. Designs kites. And websites.

Occasional hacker of perl and other things in a vaguely financial context.

Sysadmin. Knows far too many perl mongers for his own good

Writes about pubs and restaurants on the Randomness Guide to London.

meh! bah! indeeed!

Official london.pm Bad Influence and Deputy Chief Heretic. Thinks perlfs is a good idea.

Founded london.pm - sorry about that.

A geek of all things web, David moved to London in 2007 after a lifetime of swearing he would never work in the city. He is currently contracting and writing lots of CSS, HTML, JavaScript and Perl.

Founder of Milton Keynes LUG. Moved to London in 2004, in seach of something interesting to do in the evenings. Neglectful parent of YAWNS (now in the far better care of SK from DA). Currently working for Simon Wilcox at Digital Craftsmen.

Often found in #london.pm, but also on mailing list. Works in car rental software, on a hill above Gatwick. Hasn't been to socials because of a fervent belief that it is the source of all evil in the world. And the colour Lilac. Should be seen at a few a year now though.

Botherer of camels, ex-leader of the heretics and current leader of the group.

In no particular order, Loves Perl, Postgresql, Apache, Google and Beer, particularly the Belgian stuff. Wannabe search engine guru.

Dayjob: IT consultant to financial institutions

Hobbyist Perl Hacker

• OpenGuides developer and contributor

• Portability enthusiast

• Has written a pure perl VCS

Real ale drinker

ID rinceWind on Perlmonks

Bad programmer, bad bad!

Following recovery from paid Perl hacking, started working as an academic copyeditor instead. Still writing Perl for OpenGuides and the Randomness Guide to London.

Times my code has taken the RGL server down: 1.

Current nothing-to-do-with-computers project: walking across London.

Co-founder of MighTyV - Perl coder/CPAN Author/web manager/food lover

South american perl addicted that is having the biggest trip of his life coding perl at Amsterdam.

Simian choreographer. The cynical creation of a very drunk camel molestor, and a random ex-Bath programmer. Responsible for many a flamewar on the london.pm list.

Moving to Thermeon Europe and retraining from the evil Microsoft platform to something more ... fun?

Programmer and security monkey for A L Digital / The Bunker. Likes the occasional bit of obfuscated and shaped code.

Also runs the technical side of Cam.pm (that's Cambridge, UK).

In no particular order: Perl & XML hacker, French, founder of Toulouse.pm, Buffy Fan (surprise!), mirod on PerlMonks, author of the Perl Geek Code, co-author of Tonio, Terry Pratchett fan...

Perl monger since 1993 (those were the days). Currently doing interesting things with anti-spam software and Perl in $dayjob, and trying to find the time to release the next version of AxKit::App::Gallery in my CFT.

Previously known as Nigel Wetters, but then gained a name. Spent the dot-com *BOOOM* in Internet startup companies, building content-management systems, adservers and mass-mailing systems. Worked for ITV Digital, London School of Hygiene, then spent three years as a home dad. Now living in Doha; still playing around with geolocation, roff, and camels; searching for expat london.pm'ers who would like to meet up for a drink (coffee, of course).

London.pm list admin, root. London.pm member since late '98. Average posting rate = 23/month Sense made = 0.00023/post

Took over leadership of london.pm between Dave and Mark - sorry about that.

has worked with computers for far too long, to wit, first published article "Using machine code graphics on the BBC Micro" in Beebug magazine 1983. Ah, the days of self-modifying assembler to save op cycles :-] Started using Perl to munge sys admin stats on VAX/VMS because it was easier than gawk or DCL. Has been delivering business systems that use Perl and a web interface since 1999. Usually found lurking in the environs of MiltonKeynes.pm.

Perl hacker since 1998, working on a series of unspeakable tentacled monstrosities which have all required much beer to forget. Also seems to end up sysadminning because it needed doing and no bugger else would do it.

One of the members who doesn't live particularly near London. Joined before the first YAPC::Europe and somehow never left.

Like perl and smelly cheese. Need to participate more in London pm.

Interested in programming and linguistics for fun and as a way of paying the mortgage and keeping the cats from eating her toes for breakfast. Has a reputation for being an 'evil Scrabble queen', at least as far as ilmari and Greg are concerned. Drinks CIDAH!

Shevek does security consultancy, programming language design, and general academic things, but is currently helping to build a startup company. Shevek has been known to write scary code and build (and flog) scary computers.

(Ab)using perl for fun and profit. Herder of cats to YAPC::EU::2003.

General agent provocateur around town, consumate piss artist and freelance mime. Was (ir)responsible for the whole PIMB fiasco and running the LPW. Was, until December 2007, the gruppenführer of the good ship London.pm

Byzantine historian and perl hacker. Currently working on a critical edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa. It's just text manipulation, after all. Right?

Discovered Perl in 1995, after deciding that writing CGI scripts in /bin/sh hurt too much. Likes using Perl to do interesting Webby things.

Jess is one of those geeks that not only combines great technical ability but also can explain it, she's done great work on the DBIx and Catalyst documentation as well as getting involved with the heart of the project. She also wears weird hats. -- Greg

Software engineer, infrastructure enthusiast. Autistic and prosopagnosic. Programming interests: operating systems, programming languages, data representation, timekeeping, numerical computation, excruciating correctness. Programming uninterests: graphics, dwimmery. Non-programming interests: linguistics, philosophy, psychology. Alcohol interests: cider, wine.