Perl Mongers

Perl Mongers is part of The Perl Foundation and provides services to user groups for the Perl programming language.

Perl Mongers was created in 1998 as a stand-alone organization by brian d foy who formed the first Perl users group - the New York Perl Mongers, or NY.pm, in 1997 at the First O'Reilly Perl Conference along with other founding members including Piglet Evans, Adam Turoff and David H Adler. The ".pm" plays off the conventional file extension for a Perl module and "Perl Mongers" is a backronym for that. Originally, brian d foy's idea was to name the group after the Perl regular expression /New York Perl M((o|u)ngers|aniacs)*/, but "Perl Mongers" became the popular expression of that.

Soon after NY.pm announced its formation, the second Perl Mongers group was started by Chris Nandor in Boston. Others followed, in the District of Columbia, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. By the mid-1998, groups had formed in Atlanta, Chicago, London, Minneapolis, Montreal, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. By the end of 1998, there were also groups in Amsterdam, Blacksburg, Champaign, Dayton, Lisbon, Melbourne, Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, , Sydney, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Vancouver.

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