Baltimore Perl Mongers

DC.pm and Baltimore.pm (that's us!) joined forces AGAIN to host the second inaugural DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop. The event is on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the University of Baltimore. Registration (fee) is required! Find out more at DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop.

I'm happy to inform you we have a new meeting space, provided to us generously by CargoTel (http://www.cargotel.com/). This new place is just down the road from where we used to meet. The new location is in Baltimore on 2809 Boston St - STE 107, 21224. Member, Chris Rohlfs, really pulled through for us this month with getting us the meeting space (again). He's going to get us detailed entrance information a little later on. Also, we shouldreally be thankful to CargoTel, this is the second meeting space they have provided to our group and they are also one of the sponsors for the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop.

DC.pm and Baltimore.pm (that's us!) joined forces to host the first inaugural DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop. The event is on Saturday, April 14, 2012. Registration (fee) is required! Find out more at www.dcbpw.org

PDF version of the new Modern Perl book generously available for free!
Modern Perl by chromatic!

A big 'Thank You!' to the guys at Smart Logic for sponsoring our official Meetup.com page! This should be a great opportunity to meet new members and recruit more speakers!

I'm currently looking for speakers or topics that you'd like to see at our meetings. Please submit suggestions to me via twitter or via email to brad[dot]lhotsky[at]gmail. If you know local speakers you'd like to nominate, please send them my way, and I'll try to persuade them as best I can.

I'll be talking about the Baltimore PM experience at one or more talks during YAPC. I might even get some volunteers for speakers!

At this point, I've had an out pouring of support from several awesome places. I'll be providing FREE copies of two amazing Perl books at this meeting. Please bring a USB stick or something!

Free eBooks to attendees:

• Learning Perl, Fifth Edition (pdf,ePub,mobi) - Courtesy of O'Reilly
• The Modern Perl Book - Available for free for anyone!
• PLUS a Coupon for a free eBook of your choice from O'Reilly!

But that's not all, there will be even more free stuff.. If you want it, you have to show up!

In an effort to offer much more consistent branding (and not require people to have Yahoo! accounts), I migrated the mailing list from Yahoo! Groups to the pm.org Mail Man site!

Please join the mailing list at it's new location!

I'd like to introduce a formal agenda for this month's meeting. Things have been very casual in the past but this is the first step in really driving attendance. I'm requesting that anyone who'd like to give a talk or has a topic they'd like covered, DM on twitter or shoot me an email to brad.lhotsky at gmail.com

Please join the mailing list and let us know, we'll be friendly!

Conference season is entering full swing with YAPC::NA 2011 in June and then a summer of Open Source Conferences followed by even more in the fall! Anyone giving talks that would like to practice or fine tune?

Please join the mailing list and let us know, we'll be friendly!

I started thinking about meeting topics for the next meeting. Mike B. suggested talking a little about DevOps, what it is, and why it's relevant to Perl Programmers. A lot of DevOps folks are Python and Ruby hackers, but I'm a Perl guy doing what might be classified as DevOps.

Please join the mailing list and make suggestions or requests!

Decided to simplify and update the style of the Baltimore Perl Mongers site with help from the BluePrint CSS Framework. Please come to our next meeting with suggestions and criticisms.