[Brisbane-pm] Next meeting?

Jacinta Richardson jarich at perltraining.com.au
Tue Jan 17 17:28:19 PST 2006


G'day folk,

Back at the end of the September last year, Damian suggested organising a social
gathering involving beer and pizza, and Sarah suggested Trolltech would be happy
to provide a venue for another technical meeting.  I think Sarah said she also
had a speaker in, although if you haven't heard Sarah's excellent talk on
modelling earthquakes and resulting waves, you should encourage her to give that
as well!

Unfortunately Paul and myself aren't going to be in Brisbane any time soon, so I
can't prod you into a meeting time to suit us, but I'd hate the enthusiasm for
meetings to just fade away because of other commitments.

One of the really great things of regular meetings is the sharing of ideas
outside those presented in any talks.  It gives members a chance to discuss
challenges that have come up ( "I was using DBI, and found that ... ", "Oh, you
should remember to...." ) and learn from each other.  You'll probably also find
that meetings beget meetings.

If monthly technical meetings seem a little ambitious, how about trying a social
gathering at a pub/cafe/restaurant, every second month, with technical meetings
in between?

A good way to increase attendance, and membership, is to advertise these
meetings other user groups who may also harbour Perl programmers.  For example,
HUMBUG, Brisbane PC User Group, MySQL Users Group Brisbane, LUG Vegas,
Apple-MAQ, Apple Q, SAGE-AU Qld, AUUG Qld Chapter (might not exist)...

You probably won't get a huge response from these various groups, but even 2
extra Perl Mongers from half the groups, is still 8 more Perl Mongers, or 8 more
potential speakers.  :)


On another note, I'd like to extend a personal invitation to you all to visit
PerlNet ( http://perl.net.au/ ) and get involved.  It's purpose is to bring
together all Australian and New Zealand Perl entities.  We'd love to see Perl
user groups collaborating, Perl businesses listing themselves, Perl developers
looking for hire putting up their resumes and all other good uses.  We have a
Collaboration of the week going.  This week is Catalyst:

	http://perl.net.au/wiki/Catalyst

Do you have anything you could add?  There's also and IRC channel, if you'd like
to chat.

All the best,

	Jacinta

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