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On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:28:18PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I belive those 14 emails about vacation plans were completely
> on-topic. In 1999 a group of Philly, DC, and New York mongers flew
> out to London over Thanksgiving Weekend.
Just to emphasize, this topic resurfaced at a dinner after a tech
talk last month. About two hours of discussion on SOAP and Perl
preceded the discussion on whether Bryce Canyon was in Utah or Wyoming,
or whether Prague or Budapest would be a better destination in late November.
> We're hoping to organize
> another trip for this year. We're trying to plan early so we can have
> plenty of time to shop around for group rates. Expect the discussion
> to continue for a few more days, then crop up again from time to time
> as November approaches.
Again, believe it or not, the trip in 1999 was Perl related. About
a dozen people traveled to London from 3 different Perl Mongers groups
(originally 4), and met up with London Perl Mongers. Although we didn't
sit in a hotel and make presentations about XML, TCP/IP or Memoize,
we did talk about Perl over that weekend. At one point I had said that
it would be neat to write an all-perl simulation of the Enigma cipher,
when Dominus pointed out that it's the core of the algorithm behind
crypt(3). I don't remember the other conversations we had over beers,
coffee, tea, curry or fish & chips.
> There are plenty of other Perl mailing lists with higher technical
> content; see http://lists.perl.org for a complete list. Be warned,
> though, that many of them are significantly higher traffic than this
> list.
This list is intended as a pleasant mix of social chatting and
technical discussion. Discussion of a group Perl trip to Montreal,
Las Vegas or Amsterdam are not off-topic here, but neither are
Perl/Tk implementations of the swatch clock, announcements of
technical presentations, questions about why a specific regex
is slow or questions about where to find material about a specific
technical topic (XML, ML, XS or what have you).
Periodically this list will wander off of the purely technical.
That's OK. Very few of us are purely technical. After all, we
all need to eat dinner every so often. :-)
Z.
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