APM: Meeting Report

Jeremy Fluhmann fluhmann at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 10:04:53 PDT 2012


Ouch, I've never been -1'd before.  In any case, I've filled out the survey
and look forward to attending as many of the meetings as possible and
continue doing what I can to help promote Perl.

Jeremy


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> -1
>
> 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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