APM: Activity?

[Jeremy Fluhmann]

Now that I live in Austin, I'm definitely up for getting back into the Perl
community.  I'll help in any way I can for any movement to get monthly
meeting going again.  Do we have a current list of potential meeting
venues?  Any potential pizza sponsors? (Pizza seems to be the de facto
standard on groups, but any "food/drink" sponsor would be welcomed, I'm
sure).

Cheers,
Jeremy
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Mark Lehmann wrote:
> > It takes a lot of effort to coordinate events.  I'd be happy if someone
> > else wanted to coordinate.
> > [...]
>
> I don't know if this will help here, but one of the user groups
> I frequently attend started having monthly "meeting managers".
> We got the idea from Perl's new release manager process, which
> in turn got it from Parrot.
>
> In Perl/Parrot, each monthly release has a separate "release manager"
> that is responsible for the tasks associated with that month's release.
> The procedure is all well documented, so someone just volunteers for
> a month, follows the steps, and a release comes out.
>
> In the user group scenario, each regularly scheduled meeting has
> someone volunteer to be that meeting's "coordinator" (or whatever
> you wish to call it).  That person is responsible for arranging a
> speaker or event, making the meeting announcements, etc. for the
> given month.  The meeting manager can *be* the speaker, but isn't
> required to be.  And of course the manager can delegate out as
> desired/necessary.
>
> The whole point is that the work of setting up a meeting (or release)
> doesn't fall to the same person month after month after month to
> the point that he/she burns out or runs out of ideas.  Also,
> having more managers brings more ideas and improvements into the
> process.
>
> It's worked reasonably well at the UG that I attend; perhaps
> it can work for you as well.
>
> Lastly, I'd be happy to come down to Austin sometime and give a
> presentation.  :-)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Pm
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