[albany-pm] Regular-izing idea sharing?

Will Coleda will at coleda.com
Mon Dec 9 14:19:38 PST 2013


+1 on the EGL.

On Monday, December 9, 2013, Patrick Cronin wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Giving it a trial run first sounds good; we can work on the recurrence
> later if all goes well.
>
> On timing, I'm thinking soon after an dinner early, which would nicely
> roll into a drink afterward, say starting around 6:30 and being out by 7:45?
>
> You've accurately surmised that I'm currently a single-man shop. My
> "office" doesn't have much in the way of space. As the group is called
> Albany Perl Mongers, I'd assume that the meeting should be in or near to
> Albany, and I'm also considering the availability of parking. I'm currently
> following up on a couple of leads:
>
> 1. The East Greenbush Library has two large rooms<http://eastgreenbushlibrary.org/meeting-rooms-and-exhibits> which
> can fit 90 people in one and 76 people in the other. The smaller of the two
> has a partition, to which they limit the meeting to 38, which seems to me
> more than enough. Its free and they even provide "audiovisual" equipment,
> which may mean a project. Also, parking is aplenty.
>
> 2. Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce<http://www.renscochamber.com> in
> Troy has meeting rooms available, but I'm not yet sure of anything there
> such as hours, parking, room size and whether a projector could be used.
>
> I'll send an update when I get feedback from both. Does anyone have issues
> with either of these locations or the time suggestion, or better locations?
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> On 9 Dec 2013, at 9:17 AM, Mark Fowler <mark at twoshortplanks.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'mark at twoshortplanks.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Patrick Cronin <oshihuna at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'oshihuna at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
> I would propose a meeting to be made up of 3 twenty-minute sessions, and
>> that we take turns.
>
>
> Sounds good.  Here's some random thoughts on the matter though years of
> organising these things.
>
> 1. We'd need a venue.   Normally this is office space in a friendly firm.
>  I've also done this in pubs before, where a company sponsors the event by
> hiring a room that has a projector.
>
> Since I work from home now, I don't have much in the way to offer on this
> front.  Patrick, I get the impression from stalking you on LinkedIn that
> you might be a single man-shop also.  Do you have office space or do we
> need to seek further?
>
> 2. Regular is good, but how about we work on the first tech meet first,
> and then see how it goes from there?.  If we were clever about it we could
> combine it with the social, i.e. do presentations and then go for a drink
> afterward.
>
> 3. I'm more than happy to present;  I've got a bunch of stuff I'd love to
> talk about.
>
> Mark.
>
>
>

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Will "Coke" Coleda
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