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http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk/
Leader of Birmingham.pm [pm.org] and a CPAN author [cpan.org]. Co-organised YAPC::Europe in 2006 and the 2009 QA Hackathon, responsible for the YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org] and the QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org] websites. Also the current caretaker for the CPAN Testers websites and data stores.
If you really want to find out more, buy me a Guinness
Links:
Memoirs of a Roadie [missbarbell.co.uk]
[pm.org]
CPAN Testers Reports [cpantesters.org]
YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org]
QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org]
The Great Meetup Purge
So meetup have now purged 129,570 "frozen" groups [1] from their system. They now have 58,915 groups, although some of those are still what they refer to as "inactive" [2].
Personally I think it's a shame they've gone this route, as now a new group can't even start without an organiser to pay up front. At $19/month that's quite an amount for what is mostly a mailing service.
I note that there are now only 50 Perl groups registered, although only Franfurt is active in Europe
[1] frozen = 5 or less members and no organiser.
[2] inactive = 6 or more members and no organiser.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Re: The Great Meetup Purge (Score:1)
The meetup thing was a really nice idea, I used it to help promote the Liverpool Java user group, but $19/month was really too much. I'm sure some groups would find it worthwhile, but I thought the concept worked largely because like CPAN it set a low barrier to entry, and allowed low budget, low commitment, low activity groups to exist until someone got interested enough to push them forward.
osfameron