Who


How to get added

This is a small cross-section of the London.pm's estimated 500 odd members (where a London.pm member is defined as 'anyone who really wants to be' - we have members who aren't in London and even members who don't m[ou]nge Perl).

The membership is spread across those on the various lists (including the announce list), the irc channel and those who turn up at meetings .

To add yourself to this list make an xml file similar to this one, host it somewhere and then send the URL to whoswho at this server (that's london.pm.org for those who aren't spam crawlers. Alternatively use this form .

See this thread for more details and more advanced options.


Adam Auden 

Mug Shot Aka: adam

Doesn't often mong perl, spends too much time on IRC. Does like beer but is ambivalent to camels.

Email:  adam@bimble.net
Website: http://bimble.net/


Adam Spiers

Adam Spiers Aka: adam

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.

Email:  london.pm at-sign adamspiers.org
Website: http://adamspiers.org/
CPANID: ASPIERS


Andy Armstrong

Andy Armstrong Aka: AndyArmstrong

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.

Email:  andy@hexten.net
Website: http://hexten.net/
CPANID: ANDYA


Andrew Black

Andrew Black

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.

Email:  andrew6d@mail.black1.org.uk


Billy Abbott

Billy Abbott Aka: billy

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

Email:  billy@cowfish.org.uk
Website: http://billyabbott.co.uk
CPANID: cowfish


bob walker

bob walker Aka: bob

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!

Email:  bob@randomness.org.uk
Website: http://randomness.org.uk


David Cantrell 

'Evil' Dave        Cantrell Aka: DrHyde

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

Email:  david@cantrell.org.uk
Website: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
CPANID: DCANTRELL


Dave Cross

Dave Cross Aka: davorg

Founded london.pm - sorry about that.

Email:  dave@dave.org.uk
Website: http://dave.org.uk/
CPANID: DAVECROSS


David Dorward

David Dorward Aka: dorward

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 currently works at Yahoo! where he writes lots of CSS, some HTML and JavaScript and gets to play with Perl once in a while. David is coping by building an exercise in silliness using Catalyst that will provide a platform for demoing various web technologies.

Email:  david@dorward.me.uk
Website: http://dorward.me.uk/


Gareth Kirwan 

Gareth Kirwan, 'gbjk' Aka: gbjk

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.

Email:  gbjk@thermeoneurope.com


Greg McCarroll 

Greg McCarroll

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

Email:  greg@mccarroll.org.uk
Website: http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/


Harry Jackson 

Harry Jackson Aka: Paddy

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

Email:  Harry Jacksons Obfuscated Email address
Website: http://www.hjackson.org/
CPANID: HARRY


Ivor Williams

Ivor Williams Aka: IvorW

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

Email:  gcnn-hr76@spamex.com
CPANID: IVORW


James Mastros 

James 'theorbtwo' Mastros Aka: theorbtwo

God of perlmonks . Hangs out on #london.pm of late, but ignores the mailing list. Doesn't write full sentences on in his bio. Could touch-type, before he moved from the US to Germany. Now lives in Abingdon, but is not a Sophosite -- his better half, castaway, is. Could never spell. Has lately been hacking on OCR::PerfectCR, DVB-T (freeview, for those not in the know), and strange things with wires sticking out of them that look like they will set the house on fire.

Email:  james@mastros.biz
Website: http://desert-island.dynodns.net/~theorb/
CPANID: JMASTROS


Jonathan Stowe 

Rarr! Aka: gellyfish

Bad programmer, bad bad!

Email:  jns@gellyfish.com
Website: http://www.gellyfish.com/
CPANID: JSTOWE


Kake Pugh 

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 .

Email:  kake@earth.li
Website: http://www.earth.li/~kake/
CPANID: KAKE


Leo Lapworth 

Leo Lapworth Aka: Ranguard

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

Email:  llap at cuckoo.org
Website: http://leo.cuckoo.org/
CPANID: LLAP


Luis Motta Campos

Luis Motta Campos Aka: lmc

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

Email:  luismottacampos@yahoo.co.uk
Website: http://www.bitbistro.com/~lmc
CPANID: LMC


Lusercop 

Lusercop Aka: lusercop

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 .

Email:  `the.lusercop'@lusercop.net
Website: http://lusercop.net/


Matthew Byng-Maddick 

mbm Aka: mbm

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) .

Email:  mbm@colondot.net
Website: http://colondot.net/
CPANID: MATTBM


Michel Rodriguez

Michel Rodriguez Aka: mirod

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...

Email:  mirod@xmltwig.com
Website: http://www.xmltwig.com
CPANID: MIROD


Nik Clayton

Nik Clayton Aka: nik

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.

Email:  nik@freebsd.org
CPANID: NIKC


Nigel Wetters Gourlay 

Nigel Gourlay Aka: nwetters

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).

Email:  nwetters@cpan.org
Website: http://all-abroad.blogspot.com/
CPANID: NWETTERS


Paul Makepeace

Paul Makepeace Aka: Tantrix

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

Email:  http://paulm.com/contact/mail.html
Website: http://paulm.com/


Paul Mison

Paul Mison, taken by candace at London.pm, September 2005 Aka: blech

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

Email:  cpan@husk.org
Website: http://husk.org/
CPANID: PMISON


Peter Edwards

Peter Edwards Aka: peterdragon

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.

Email:  peter@dragonstaff.co.uk
Website: http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
CPANID: PEDWARDS


Philip Newton 

Aka: pne

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

Email:  Philip.Newton@ gmx.net
Website: http://pne.livejournal.com/
CPANID: PNE


Randy J. Ray 

Randy J. Ray Aka: rjray
American (more Jon Stewart than George Bush), currently in Denver, CO, USA, but going to be living and working in London, "any day now". Writer of Perl since before p5p, when all we had was the pink Camel Book (and we liked it!). Writer of the odd book and/or magazine article and/or conference presentation here and there. I may also be the only person on this page who would be in the same ordinal position should they ever decide to parse the names and properly sort on family name rather than given name. Email:  rjray@blackperl.com
Website: http://www.rjray.org
CPANID: RJRAY


Shevek 

Shevek Aka: Shevek

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.

CPANID: SHEVEK
Email:  (guess!) with domain anarres.org
Website: http://www.anarres.org/


Simon Wilcox 

Simon 'essuu' Wilcox Aka: essuu

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

Email:  simonw@simonwilcox.co.uk
Website: http://www.digitalcraftsmen.net


Simon Wistow 

Simon 'muttley' Wistow Aka: muttley

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

Email:  simon@thegestalt.org
Website: http://thegestalt.org/simon/
CPANID: SIMONW


Tara Andrews 

Tara Andrews

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?

Email:  tla at MIT
Website: http://www.eccentricity.org/
CPANID: AURUM


Tom Hukins 

Tom Hukins Aka: tomboh

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

Email:  tom@eborcom.com