APM: Activity?

[Lynn Bender]

Jeremy,

I'd like to let you guys know that I've been following the thread,
and will be happy to promote you with big fanfare when you're ready.

Because of the NLP/Machine Learning/Data stuff I do, I'm finding it
necessary to make Python my primary language, but I still have a tremendous
affection for perl. It and Bash were the first two languages I learned.



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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Um, don't you also need to set some sort of regular schedule since it's
> not likely there will be somebody on all the time?
>
> ---- Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In case anyone is interested  -  irc.perl.org   #austin.pm
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
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> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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