Toronto Perl Mongers Home Page

Toronto Perl Mongers

Welcome to the home page of the Toronto Perl Mongers.

The Toronto Perl Mongers is a group of Perl programmers and hackers of all levels who get together to talk about Perl. Perl is a programming language which can be used for a large variety of tasks. A typical simple use of Perl would be for extracting information from a text file and printing out a report or for converting a text file into another form. But Perl provides a large number of tools for quite complicated problems, including systems programming and scientific research.

Next or Most Recent Meeting

Date: Thu 23 Feb 2012 18:45 EST
Venue: Global Knowledge (room TBA)
Topic: TPM Web Page Update Hackathon (II)
Facilitator: Olaf Alders
Synopsis:

Part 2 of the hackathon to re-work the Toronto Perl Mongers web site.

Contact

Send email to toronto-pm-owner @ pm.org

Mailing List

We communicate primarily via our mailing list. The archives from March 2007 onwards are here.

Meetings

We normally hold meetings on the last Thursday of each month.

These meetings range from a single Perl theme to code reviews to rambling free-for-all discussions of things Perlish. We occasionally have meetings with special guests lecturing on or teaching about their specialties. After the meeting we usually go out for food and drinks. Perl hackers of all skill levels are invited.

Location: 2 Bloor Street West, (usually) in a room on the 12th floor. The room will be announced on the mailing list a few days before the meeting. It will also be left with the security desk in the building (main floor lobby) shortly before the meeting starts (i.e. around 6pm).

Time: 6:45 p.m.

Directions: This building is on the north-west corner of Bloor and Yonge, accessible by subway from Bloor station. Pay parking is also ample in this area.

Security note: The elevators in the building are "locked down" after 5:30pm to people without building access cards. Leading up to the meeting someone will come down to the main floor lobby every few minutes to ferry people upstairs. There will be a number of scheduled trips:

17:30
18:00
18:30
18:45
19:00

After 19:00, you can reach the access-card-carrying guy via a cell phone number that we'll leave with security in the front lobby. The room and floor numbers will be left with security too.

If any latecomers call up there will be a final group elevator run at 19:10. After that, access will be ad-hoc; call up from security and somebody will try to come down and let you up.

Recordings

In case you missed a meeting or cannot attend because your at the other side of the world, audio recordings of many of our past talks are available online for download (September 2004 to January 2006).

For a list of available programs go to: http://hew.ca/talks_audio/

Schedule