[baltimorepm] Next Month's Meeting (Introducing an Agenda)

[John SJ Anderson]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:51, Brad Lhotsky <brad.lhotsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> 3) Attendance is low, and I've yet to get enough feedback as to why.
> Of those who spoke up, #1 was lack of an agenda (solved), #2 was too
> early so I pushed "official start" back to 7pm, but still give you
> folks who want to come directly from work a spot to hang and eat some
> pizza for 30 minutes before we "start."

FWIW, dc.pm starts at 7:30pm. I think I'm probably reasonably unique
in wanting to come up to the meetings from DC, but generally, later
gets more people.

> 4) Branching out into not just Perl topics, but keeping a thread of
> Perl in those topics.  IE, "I am DevOps and so can you! (with some
> Perl scripts I wrote!)"

You may also want to try to find other like-minded groups in the area
and try to cross-pollinate.

> 6) Baltimore Perl events?  Over the next year, I'm hoping we can
> really grow the group to the point where me suggesting Baltimore bid
> for the YAPC::NA isn't a ludicrous idea.  If not at least, a Baltimore
> Perl Workshop?

If you get around to thinking about doing this seriously, please try
to reach out and coordinate with dc.pm. Some of us have kicked around
the idea of trying to host a workshop, but I think it would probably
be easier to hit the budgetary sweet spot in Baltimore...


j.