APM: Activity?

Jeremy Fluhmann fluhmann at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 15:42:37 PDT 2012


In case it affects the decision for the soon-to-be upcoming date of the
next meeting - http://geekaustin.org/guide-austin-tech-meetups.  The 4th
Wednesday doesn't have anything going on if anyone is up for even just an
Austin PM Social Hour (perl -e "print qq{wink } x 2;")

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> --
>
> Jeremy Fluhmann
> *http://twitter.com/jfluhmann*
> *http://identi.ca/jfluhmann
> http://jfluhmann.edublogs.org
> Texas Open Source Project - http://texos.org
> Texas Linux Fest - http://www.texaslinuxfest.org*
>
> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Austin mailing list
>> Austin at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20120621/b14f1b92/attachment.html>


More information about the Austin mailing list