[albany-pm] Albany-pm Digest, Vol 50, Issue 7

walt.wheeler wheelerw at fairpoint.net
Wed Dec 11 13:47:42 PST 2013


Definitely prefer EGL to Troy.
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On 12/11/2013 3:00 PM, albany-pm-request at pm.org wrote:
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> From: Will Coleda <will at coleda.com>
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> Subject: Re: [albany-pm] Regular-izing idea sharing?
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> +1 on the EGL.
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> On Monday, December 9, 2013, Patrick Cronin wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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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