APM: Meeting Report
Taylor Carpenter
taylor at codecafe.com
Fri Jul 27 09:32:54 PDT 2012
On 07/27/12 at 07:32am, jameschoate at austin.rr.com wrote:
> I'm talking about a long term effort to have a sequence of projects or
> events that promote the use of perl by actually doing perl.
Sounds like a project specific meetup for people already working on some
project.
An alternative would be a open hack group where a bunch of different projects
are going on at any given time and anyone can help or chat about what
ever was interesting to them -- including just working by themselves and
requesting feedback when desired.
> I realize for some that's a problem due to contractual limitations (ala IBM) but
> there has to be a better way to promote perl than free pizza and
> listening to somebodies sales pitch once a month.
Free pizza is new and not required. If meetups always were about a
sales pitch then most would fail.
Also a single talk for an hour+ is usually overkill unless there is
interactive learning of some type... that might be coding, but it could
easily be Q&A during the talk (vs after). The topic can be pitched to
the group on the mailing list or at the end of a meeting to see the
interest level and the talk should be adjusted accordingly.
Leaning towards more talks per meeting means each talk gets to the point
faster w/o the fluff.
In any case I suggest a vote on where this PM group should take the
meetings. Here is a survey I created based on the current discussion
thread:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3KQPR8G
Fill it in and I'll pass all the results on or create a new one. In any
case a vote should be taken so we can move on.
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