APM: Meeting Report
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
Fri Jul 27 09:35:30 PDT 2012
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The point isn't about meetings, it's about activities. Completely different point and it should be a primary focus of the APM main meetings. It's fundamental to the existence of a SIG.
---- Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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