In case anyone is interested - <a href="http://irc.perl.org">irc.perl.org</a> #<a href="http://austin.pm">austin.pm</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Jeremy Fluhmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fluhmann@gmail.com" target="_blank">fluhmann@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In case it affects the decision for the soon-to-be upcoming date of the next meeting - <a href="http://geekaustin.org/guide-austin-tech-meetups" target="_blank">http://geekaustin.org/guide-austin-tech-meetups</a>. 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;")<div class="HOEnZb">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Jeremy Fluhmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fluhmann@gmail.com" target="_blank">fluhmann@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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).<br>
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</p></div></font></font></font></span></font></span><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmichaud@pobox.com" target="_blank">pmichaud@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Mark Lehmann wrote:<br>
> It takes a lot of effort to coordinate events. I'd be happy if someone<br>
> else wanted to coordinate.<br>
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I don't know if this will help here, but one of the user groups<br>
I frequently attend started having monthly "meeting managers".<br>
We got the idea from Perl's new release manager process, which<br>
in turn got it from Parrot.<br>
<br>
In Perl/Parrot, each monthly release has a separate "release manager"<br>
that is responsible for the tasks associated with that month's release.<br>
The procedure is all well documented, so someone just volunteers for<br>
a month, follows the steps, and a release comes out.<br>
<br>
In the user group scenario, each regularly scheduled meeting has<br>
someone volunteer to be that meeting's "coordinator" (or whatever<br>
you wish to call it). That person is responsible for arranging a<br>
speaker or event, making the meeting announcements, etc. for the<br>
given month. The meeting manager can *be* the speaker, but isn't<br>
required to be. And of course the manager can delegate out as<br>
desired/necessary.<br>
<br>
The whole point is that the work of setting up a meeting (or release)<br>
doesn't fall to the same person month after month after month to<br>
the point that he/she burns out or runs out of ideas. Also,<br>
having more managers brings more ideas and improvements into the<br>
process.<br>
<br>
It's worked reasonably well at the UG that I attend; perhaps<br>
it can work for you as well.<br>
<br>
Lastly, I'd be happy to come down to Austin sometime and give a<br>
presentation. :-)<br>
<br>
Hope this helps,<br>
<br>
Pm<br>
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