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Sad to hear that.

London.pm in particular were mind-bogglingly active in the early 2000s, pulling lots of funny quirky pranks, for example, declaring war 💥💣🪖 on Paris.pm and sponsoring a camel 🐪 at the London zoo (mentioned here). Based on their youtube channel and a Mohammad Anwar tech meet report, they were still going strong in 2019.

Presumably Covid hit their in-person meetups pretty hard; at least London Perl Mongers Meetup Group suggests their last in-person event was in 2020. Hopefully davies can comment further (he often posts about London.pm, e.g. London PM Technical Meeting 2019-05-23 and London PM Technical Meeting 2019-09-25 and more).

BTW, talexb still hosts regular monthly meetings of Toronto Perl Mongers, as mentioned a few weeks ago at 22 years, and about a quarter century of Perl (not sure if these meetings are virtual or in-person).

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Re^2: Perlmongers (was: Re^5: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 (communities)) - London.pm
by Bod (Parson) on Jan 09, 2024 at 22:58 UTC
    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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      Birmingham is not far away and there certainly was a group there

      Bod, that sounds like a good plan, but would you understand their Brummie dialect? BTW, which is more working class, Birmingham or Coventry?

      Though I don't know its current status, Birmingham.pm was led for many years by the famous barbie, who I see you already outrank at Perl Monks -- though he's slightly ahead of you on CPAN with 112 distributions.

      You have an easy ice-breaker though: ask barbie in your best Brummie accent to add you to his Acme::CPANAuthors::British module. :-) 

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        would you understand their Brummie dialect

        I went to university in Manchester and stayed there for 20 years...even after all that time, people would sometimes ask me which part of Birmingham I come from! Apparently, I have a slight Brummie accent so understanding it is not going to be a problem.

        I'm more fluent in Brummie than I am in Aussie so understanding you eyepopslikeamosquito could be more challenging if we were ever to meet 😜

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