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Perl census are out

cog on 2005-12-14T15:26:22

Perl census 2005 are out.

I wonder... who organized the past two yapc::eu's?

Why Stop at Two?

davorg on 2005-12-14T16:33:52

2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Re:Why Stop at Two?

cog on 2005-12-14T16:39:25

Because the point was that both those groups appear to have 0 members :-)

Re:Why Stop at Two?

n1vux on 2005-12-14T22:43:39

Because the point was that both those groups appear to have 0 members :-)

And our rather noisy Boston mailing list is shown as having 300 members and 0 posts per day. (And doesn't mention sometimes-social meetings.)

No poll / census is a perfect reflection of reallity -- the Map is not the territory.

But yes, it is funny that the last two YAPC::EU's have been run by groups with (reportedly) no members.

(-: Is this a sign that Barbie+Birmingham.PM should make some (read all) members redundant quickly, if she intends to succeed, or is this a measure of the price of success, that running YAPC results in total burnout? :-)

Re:Why Stop at Two?

cog on 2005-12-14T23:15:10

Barbie+Birmingham.PM [...] if she intends to succeed

Er... is that "she" refering to Barbie or to Birmingham? O:-)

Re:Why Stop at Two?

barbie on 2005-12-15T13:08:25

I was wondering that too ;^)

Re:Why Stop at Two?

n1vux on 2005-12-16T19:01:29

Sorry, yes, to be gramatically correct I should have put brackets around the (+Birmingham.PM) so as a parenthetical it didn't count for agreement in number and gender.

Happy Holidays

Re:Why Stop at Two?

jmm on 2005-12-19T17:46:24

But to be gender correct when referring to (this particular) Barbie, you would use he in place of she.

Re:Why Stop at Two?

davorg on 2005-12-15T09:20:16

Ah. I see.

Well actually it says that those groups have mailing lists with no members. Which isn't quite the same as saying that the groups have no members. But obviously a mailing list with no members seems a little pointless and you'd generally expect most of the group members to be on the mailing list.

I deliberately didn't ask the group leaders how many actual members they had. Largely because from experiences with london.pm I know what a tricky concept membership can be :)