I’m responsible for organising speakers for Belfast.pm. This didn’t go particularly well in October but things are looking up for the rest of the year. On November 17th Dave Cross will be speaking on Tieing with Perl and in December Mark Jason Dominus will be the speaker. Belfast.pm, like most Perl Mongers groups, doesn’t have any money. We are only able to get speakers like Mark because the company I work for puts on training events in Belfast featuring some of these speakers – which really helps with covering the expenses. This year we are hoping to run a three day version of Mark’s CGI Programming with Perl. Once I have that sorted out I’ll pick a topic for Mark to speak on at Belfast.pm.