APM: Meeting Report

[Jeremy Fluhmann]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Taylor Carpenter <taylor at codecafe.com>wrote:

> A project/coding-interactive focused meetup group is an interesting idea.
>
> I suggest having a spin-off meeting that allows people who are interested
> in the project to attend those meetings.   This could be a single on-going
> project, or a hack meetup to work on several projects of interest....
>
> For the actual PM meetup itself, IMO, it should keep a broad focus in
> general -- even if we have talks about a specific topic.   Otherwise the
> group will alienate everyone who is not interested in the current topic.
> Personally I prefer 2 or 3 talks at a meeting that are short, so that
> everyone has a chance of at least one topic being presented of interest.
> Giving some time for people to ask questions, bring up problems they are
> working on, and chat in general is also good.
>
> Zombies and Perl as well as well as problems solved with Perl for the
> Trello Bot project are examples of short talks I would be happy to see at
> future PM meetings.
>
> BTW, adding an additional hour at the end of the current PM meeting to
> allow people to hang out and hack would be fine as well.  Anyone
> uninterested in the project can leave after the meeting.
>

+1

Cheers,
Jeremy
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