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Columbia Perl Mongers have been pretty quiet of late, but it's not to late to change that. We don't meet on any kind of regular basis, but there is an email group that we can use for perl-related questions. This would be a great virtual meeting, especially as it is limited only to those who are subscribed, so the spam level is pretty low. See below for information on subscribing to columbia-pm-list.

The 2002 YAPC:NA (Yet Another Perl Conference) will be held in Saint Louis June 26-28, 2002 at Washington University. This is a low-cost ($85) alternative to the larger Open Source Conference hosted by O'Reilly, and features many of the same speakers.

The 1999 Mizzou Linux Users Group Open Source Exposition was a resounding success. The Keynote Speaker was Eric S. Raymond, FetchMail programmer, emacs collaborator, author, and long-time advocate of the Open Source Model in software design. His talk inspired a great discussion.

Disclaimer: While I am associated with MLUG, I am not involved in the organization of this exposition, and can claim no credit for it. There are a lot of hard working people who deserve the credit.

History

The Columbia Perl Mongers was organized late summer in 1999, and serves as a means of exchanging information among users of the Perl programming language. Since most of us are alrady members of other users groups, we meet electronically with occasional social get-togethers.

The Perl Mongers provide web hosting as well as mail lists to member groups, and this allows hundreds of groups nationwide and world wide to share information with each other. While Columbia Perl Mongers benefits from this relationship, we are not controlled by the Perl Mongers, and operate autonomously, as does any other Perl Mongers user group.

List of useful links:

• Mid-Missouri Perl and Open Source Resources
  • Perl Resources on the University of Missouri Campus
  • Mizzou Linux Users Group
  • Saint Louis Perl Mongers
• The Perl Mongers
  • Perl Monger Users Groups
  • World Map of Perl Monger Groups
• Perl Sites
  • The Perl Journal
  • The Source for Perl
  • ActiveState Tool Corp. -- Professional Tools for Perl Developers
  • The Monastery Gates -- Perl Monks
  • The Macperl Pages -- Perl for Macintosh
  • O'Reilly Perl Books
• Perl Applications
  • Computational Molecular Biology Resources
  • Majordomo Information
• Open Source Sites
  • The Open Source Page
  • Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution -- an online book from O'Reilly
• Open Source Operating Systems
  • The FreeBSD Project
  • The Linux Home Page at Linux Online
• Other Open Source Software
  • The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation
  • Apache Home Page
  • Perl and Apache
  • MySQL home page

Columbia Perl Mongers also has a mailing list for the use of its members.

The simplest way to subscribe to the list is by visiting the mailman web interface at:

www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/columbia-pm

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