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Please join us for September meeting of Sydney Perl Mongers.

This meet is hosted by Broadbean, who are providing the venue and catering.

Time: 6-9pm (roughly)
Date: Tuesday, 25th of September 2018
Location: 9 Hunter Street, Sydney

(Meet in the ground level foyer or just outside and be brought up)

We have two speakers, one on Dancer and either a repeat of my Perl in OpenWRT talk or a fresh talk on doing REST in perl6.

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