[Buffalo-pm] Next Buffalo Perl Mongers Meeting - March 11

[Kevin Eye]

I won't be able to make it tonight, either, but here's what I would 
have said had I been present :-)

> (1) There are a couple of Toronto Perl Mongers events we should discuss
> organizing road trips for:

I'd be up for traveling to see MJD and chipping in a donation. I'm not 
as interested in the Pair Programming excursion.

> (2) I'd like to fill in our own events schedule and project it
> out to at least June. We need speakers for April 8th and May 13th. In
> particular, I'm hoping that we can get two volunteers from this mailing
> list to commit to an hour talk, which can be, for example, on a
> particular module, using Perl for certain types of problems (e.g. text
> processing, data munging), etc.

I'd be happy to prepare another talk if no-one else has anything in 
particular they want to do. Maybe something on Inline::C, XML parsing, 
or anything else there's interest in.

> (3) I'd like some advice and help on revamping our site at
> buffalo.pm.org, such as possibly adding RSS feeds from use.perl.org and
> CPAN, design improvements, etc.

I could help with the under-the-hood bits of this. Design improvements 
aren't really my thing, though.

> (4) I'd also like to discuss the idea of how we could best fund 
> out-of-town
> speakers for programming later in the year.

I think mandatory dues would do nothing but decrease our dwindling 
membership. I'd be surprised if we could raise more than $200 with 
either mandatory or voluntary contributions. It'd be nice to bring in 
speakers just for us, but until we have a much larger dedicated member 
base, I think our speaker pool will be purely opportunistic (e.g. local 
members, gurus that happen to be in town, and banding together with 
other groups (i.e. Toronto) to bring people in).

  - Kevin

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