Following Dave Cross' example, I suppose I should write something about who I am and what I know about Perl, the Mongers, and the other communities and tools associated with the language.
I am a spanish software engineer born in São Paulo, Brazil. I grew in the big city, where my first contact with the Internet and with Perl happened at the same time, around 1996, at the São Paulo State University. I was fascinated by the regular expressions support Perl offered (much better than the clumsy /usr/bin/awk support, just to name an easy one), and learned fast. I've been working as a Perl programmer for a living since then, always combining it with my system administration skills.
I learned about the Perl Mongers and the Perl Mailing Lists in 2001, when I subscribed to the London Perl Mongers and contacted Dave Cross, requesting him to help me out re-activating the São Paulo Perl Mongers community (there was a website and a mailing list, but no subscribers).
I moved to Lisbon after several years of leadership of the SPPMers leaving a new leader and a group with almost a hundred subscribers there. In Lisbon, I joined the Lisbon Perl Mongers. After a while, personal reasons drove me out to the Netherlands, where I joined the Amsterdam Perl Mongers, a highly technical and skilled PM group.
Since the beginning I admired the work and effort of the London Perl Mongers, and made them my model. And I am proud of it, and became even more proud when Dave Cross invited me to write on this blog. I hope proving myself worthy of this honor and privilege.
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