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> Do wiser Monks believe that the majority of serious1 Perl coders frequent here?

No. Many different "Perl communities" with random mutual overlap.

> Definition of serious

I talked to some attendants of conferences, to perlmongers (= local user groups) and to CPAN authors on other channels.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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by Bod (Parson) on Jan 07, 2024 at 22:53 UTC
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    Do any still exist?

    All the UK Groups seem to have dead or very out-of-date websites...

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        Sad to hear that

        TBH I haven't looked too deeply into it. When the topic came up, I quickly followed the link to Perl Mongers and briefly looked at whether there was one in my home city of Coventry...it seems there never has been but Birmingham is not far away and there certainly was a group there.

        London is a little over 2 hours drive from here so probably too far to tempt me to a Perl meeting unless there was going to be something very special to entice me.

        talexb still hosts regular monthly meetings of Toronto Perl Mongers

        If London is probably too far, Toronto is definitely too far!

        Although it is somewhere I did previously want to visit. I wanted to take my late mother to Canada as my father trained there as a pilot and bomb aimer and she spoke of his tales with great curiosity. It was probably an impossible mission, though, as my mother had never flown and had no intention of doing so. She was born in India and travelled between the UK and India several times as a child by boat in the days before commercial air travel. 6 weeks on a boat being seasick for the whole journey must have been pretty hellish!

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      I know at least 6.5 in Germany, but not all meet on a regular basis. Some circumvent mailman because of random spam filtering. And websites, if they exist, are not kept up to date.

      So yes public relations wise they are weak.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        Maybe we could figure out a way to host perlmongers groups here.

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