Subject: comp.lang.perl.tk PASSES 352:18
From: [email-masked] (Jon Orwant)
Date: 9 Oct 1995 18:40:04 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

comp.lang.perl.tk results - 370 valid votes

 Yes   No : 2/3? >100? : Pass? : Group
---- ---- : ---- ----- : ----- : -------------------------------------------
 352   18 :  Yes   Yes :   Yes : comp.lang.perl.tk
   1 abstaining vote  and 2 invalid votes

For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and
NO) votes.   There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes.

There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted.  If
no serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator
of news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter.

Newsgroups line:
comp.lang.perl.tk	Using Tk (and X) from Perl.

Voteing closed on 23:59:59 UTC, 26 Sep 1995.

This vote was conducted by a neutral third party.  Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.

Proponent: Jon Orwant <[email-masked]>
Votetaker: Jan Isley <[email-masked]>

RATIONALE: comp.lang.perl.tk

Perl/Tk (also called, in various incarnations, "pTk" and "nTk") is an
extension for the Perl programming language that enables programmers
to develop X applications.

It's popular.  There's a high-volume mailing list devoted to Perl/Tk
([email-masked]); the suggestion for this newsgroup arose from that list.

There are probably many people who are interested in Perl/Tk, but have
never heard of the mailing list, or are dissuaded from joining because
of the message volume.

There are probably many people who are only casually interested in Perl/Tk,
and would like to be able to skim a few weeks worth of messages.

There are probably many people who program in Perl, but don't realize
that Perl/Tk exists.

CHARTER: comp.lang.perl.tk

This newsgroup will serve as a forum for:

o       questions/answers/discussion about Perl/Tk
o       getting/installing/porting Perl/Tk
o       development of applications in Perl/Tk
o       development of Perl/Tk itself

as well any other topic related to "using X from Perl via Tk."
The newsgroup is NOT for discussion about Tcl, except as it relates
to Tk and/or X.

Novice questions, code snippets, etc. are encouraged.

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