Members are encouraged to provide a brief member profile similar to the one's below. (However, if you prefer not to have such a profile that's fine too.) Generally, you are considered a member of Oakland.pm if you subscribe to the Oakland.pm mailing list.

The idea is to convey some things about yourself that would enhance communication with other participants. Your profile may also be useful for prospective members, prospective employers, speakers, ... Feel free to include links to your resume or your website or whatever else helps.

For more: See Suggestion for Providing a Profile.

Disclaimer:

No claim is being made here that this format is ideal or a best practice or anything remotely like that. The intent is just to provide a tad of information with minimum impact on the webmaster of this site.

• 2nd member of group
• has hosted >10 group-meetings

• lexicographer, linguist, ex-translator,
  ex-CØBØL-programmer, ex-HyperTalk-scriptor.
• ran CP/M on an Osborne-I,
  MS-DOS on an IBM-AT;
  long-time MAC-user.
• runs MAC_OS_X on a Mac
  which is not best used as a boat-anchor.
• below "Hello world!\n" level with Perl.
• see nola.house.name

• Perl user and fan
• Current instigator, sig-beer-west

• Perl and shell toolsmith, unix sysadmin.
• Use Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 3, Solaris, IRIX, Mac OS 9.2.1 at home.
• extasia.org

• the voice of sanity
• adversary

• a proud role played being with a website
• a proponent of modernism
• a critic of postmodernism and Perl
• "Know your enemy!"
• This format sucks, so see my website. That's where the good stuff is.

• founder, group leader
• webmaster

• avid Perl user and Perl advocate (since 1994).
• favors Perl culture. see Camelot.pm site.
• web author, software developer, training developer.
• has two PCs running SuSE Linux
  and two old Macs (one running OS X).
• for more, see my personal site and my Perl wiki.

• Gentleman Perl hacker
• Ruby on Rails fan
• Microsoft anti-fan
  (the world needs better than they've got!)
• Technology manager

• Software developer & full-time management consultant
• Finding more replacements for MS stuff every day
• Website: www.edpci.com

• Enjoys reading perl books
  at bedtime
• Unemployed fulltime

• Undergraduate degree in music
• Have written "hello world" applications in several languages,
  some of which didn't crash the system
• Enjoys staying up late; Hates waking up early
• Interacted with Solaris, Linux, Windows, and Mac
  Most of my current computing is done on a Windows system using voice recognition

• Scientific Programmer
• Perl Hacker

• Wrote WWW::Yahoo::DrivingDirections
• Linux enthusiast

• awk^sed + C -> Perl
• Seeking new things, and clever new ways of doing old things

• Self-taught Unix, C, Perl, Oracle craftsman
• I wonder is there such a thing as a team of Perl programmers...?
• Favorite modules: DBI and DBD
• my web site

• contrarian buffoon

• alternative classical DJ and persnickety typographic voluptuary
• recreational Perl user (I can quit any time, really)
• reader of Eric Voegelin
• http://www.classicswithoutwalls.org
• usually found desperately trying to remember next item on to-do list, which always turns out to be "find to-do lists and consolidate"

• Seeking others
  with common interests
• Hosted 4 group meetings

• Doer of Stuff in a variety of languages and platforms.
• At home, I use OS/2.
• Interested in exploring advanced programming concepts with PERL,
  eg. Object Oriented, Literate Programming, Code Generation, etc.
• Interested in such grandly ridiculous projects
  as pure PERL web browsers, email clients, etc.
• Also, see my Home Site.

• Perl to save the planet...
• Founded SpaceShare Carpooling

• Wrote a Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl Carpool system
• Starting the business keeps me from having a life
• have another business ideas -> partners out there?

• All-around Perl hack
• UNIX sysadmin
• Aspiring BOFH

• UNIX geek with unapologetic BSD bias
• Has used Perl for many things since 1994,
  most of which are not webby
• Favorite modules: POE, WWW::Mechanize, YAML
• Indulges in applied imagination and theoretical mischief
• Definitely not a tenor
• Personal web site. Warning! Requires ability to read and understand English!

Suggestion for Providing a Profile

My suggestion is:

• Look through the existing profiles, etc. above.
• Compose a profile with that in mind.
• Send plain ASCII text. See example below.

If that doesn't work for you, send whatever. I can always ask questions, if I need to.

Example of Profile in ASCII Text

	   Name:
	      Pearl Doe [Oakland]
	   Role:
	      * Perl hacker
	   Brief Profile:
	      * software developer and webmaster
	      * use mostly Red Hat Linux
	      * a postmodernist 
	      * favorite modules: CGI, LWP
	      * for more: see my resume 
		at http://www.pearl.com/resume.html
	   

Note:

• If you want something longer, you can link to it.
• I'll create links from things like my resume ... above.