A while ago, I answered to Sawyer's blog post "On low attendance in TelAviv.pm meetings" basically saying that I challenge the idea that the event he referred to is a TelAviv.pm at all. I was being facetious and nitpicking, but my motive was, and still is, my belief that the .pm meetings are a perl-centric, social gathering of like-minded Perl, ahem, mongers, and should be treated in the same way that you treat 4-5 perl guys who meet in a pub.

This is why I was very excited about th…