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Italy: a Perl success story
- 1. Italy: a Perl success story by Michele Beltrame - [email_address] or How we built a nice community
- 3. NO MEMBERS (excluding founder)
- 4. North-Eastern Italy: 7 million people Perl?
- 5. 2001: Nordest.pm First Perl Mongers group in Italy with more than a handful of members
- 6. Can you see larsen as an orange dot? First member besides 2 founders (me and dree )
- 7. TASK 1 Convince mongers to travel for 100+ kilometers to hook up
- 8. 油
- 9. Enough for 30 kilometers
- 10. +
- 11. Enough for 60 kilometers
- 12. + +
- 13. People started to hook up
- 14. Firenze.pm Pisa.pm Roma.pm Torino.pm
- 15. TASK 2 Build the online community
- 16. #nordest.pm => #perl.it A great place to spend your day and avoid working
- 17. www.perl.it
- 18. Main Italian Perl-related web site Articles Documentation Events pod2it translation of basic documentation Mailing lists + Community
- 19. TASK 3 Organize Perl-related events
- 20. Pisa.pm 1 st Italian Perl Workshop in July 2004 Attendance: 40
- 21. In Pisa they had something Nordest.pm lacked
- 23. Bepi , dakkar , nids , peppe + other folks who are actually able to organize an event (and are brave enough to do it)
- 24. If you can't beat them, join them
- 25. 2 nd Italian Perl Workshop in June 2005 Attendance: 40
- 26. 3 rd Italian Perl Workshop in June 2006 Attendance: 50
- 27. 4 th Italian Perl Workshop in September 2008 Attendance: 120 2 conference tracks for 2 full days speakers from all across Europe free coffee and Italian pastries 20+ sponsors job recruitment sessions people had a great time
- 28. TODO (TASK 4) Propose as a venue for YAPC::EU 2010
- 29. It will likely be Pisa
- 31. 5 th Italian Perl Workshop Sometime in late Summer 2009 A great time of the year to visit Italy
- 32. GRAZIE