Perl Mongers

The Perl Mongers user groups organize the Perl programming language and provide services and support. They are since 2000 part of the Perl Foundation.

History

The Perl Mongers were established in 1998 by Brian D. Foy as an independent organization to life. This established before 1997 at the First O'Reilly Perl Conference, the first group, the New York Perl Mongers ( NY.pm ) The. " Pm " alludes to the usual file extension for Perl modules, " Perl Mongers " is a backronym. Originally it was Foy's idea of ​​the group after the regular expression / New York Perl M ( (o | u) ngers | aniacs ) * / to name, but the name Perl Mongers prevailed.

Shortly after the announcement of the establishment of NY.pm launched Chris Nandor in Boston the second Perl Mongers group. This was followed by Washington, DC, Los Angeles and St. Louis. In mid-1998 there were already groups in Atlanta, Chicago, London, Minneapolis, Montreal, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.

On the Second O'Reilly Perl Conference in August 1998 Brian D. Foy, David H. Adler and Adam Turoff then helped to establish more than 100 new groups. They asked for it such as web hosting, mailing lists and discussion opportunities for leaders available. On the other hand Foy was considered in the early days very sure that as all participated in the Perl Mongers as an umbrella organization. So he stopped the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers from Michigan to calling himself Grand Rapid 's Perl Monkees.

The end of 1998 there were already world many groups, including in Amsterdam, Lisbon, Melbourne, Stockholm, Sydney and Vancouver.