Looks like Lyon.pm is about to be created. Another Perl hacker from Lyon, Jerôme Quelin, contacted me to start it. We're two for now -- Jerôme posted an announcement in fr.comp.lang.perl to get some other people. The preliminary meeting would be on 28th february, at 20h30, in the Café Perl (great name for a place!), near the subway station Cordeliers. If you're interested, please follow-up or send me a mail. A new french PM group would be great.
This is great news!
The french organisation Les Mongueurs de Perl will provide you with a web site, a mailing-list and a domain name.
Check out http://lyon.mongueurs.net/ soon!
It's great that you're starting a new group! Best of luck to you, be sure to keep it up even if it takes a while for your meetings to gain weight. You should also announce it on the Paris.pm list where, as I recall, there are quite a few non-Parisians (I at least remember someone that lived not far from Grenoble that may be close enough for the occasional drop by).
If you ever have tech meetings, I'd be happy to use the occasion to drop by and go see my family in Grenoble after that. That is, of course, if anyone there is even remotely interested in XML
Bonne chance!
