[Canberra-pm] Starting meetings

[Paul Bryan]

Firstly, a quick intro

My name is Paul Bryan and I've been knocking about the CLUG lists/meetings 
since the start of this year. I work at CIT in the web section - mostly as a 
sys admin type role. I'm also studing IT/Engineering at ANU but have deferred 
this semester for various reasons.

Ive only been using perl for a few months, though I'm reasonably proficient 
in c, bash, php and others.

Now to the responses:

On Friday 27 September 2002 13:49, Jeremy wrote:
> Now that there are a good number of people joined up (I declare 10 to be a
> 'good' number) I'd like to planning some meetings.  I've got some ideas on
> what to do, but I'd really like to get other peoples ideas first.  So I've
> got some questions for everybody:
>
> *  Would you come to a meeting at all?

Yes

>
> Lurking on the list might be taking enough of your time already...
>
> *  What kind of meeting?
>
> Some .pm groups alternate social and technical meetings (e.g. pub one
> month, coding groups the next).

If you don't want to do the pub thing I might go have a beer by myself every 
week anyway! I think alternating social and tech meetings sounds pretty good 
to me. I'd try and make it to both. Monthly is probably a pretty good 
frequency. Not too taxing :)

> *  What would you be interested in seeing on the mailing list?
>
> I can pass around tips, tricks, perl news, notice of events... or we can
> make the list a traditional Q&A resource.

I'd like to see a bit of all those things really. I'll be posting some 
questions shortly me thinks, but some generals tips from more experienced 
users would be greatly appreciated - gotcha's and the like, that people have 
come accross in their travels.

What news and events would be posted? General perl stuff, specific 
canberra-pm stuff or a mix of both? I'd be interested in the general stuff 
possibly but if it's just duplicating what can be easily found elsewhere 
there's probably not much point.

> *  Which bits of perl are you interested in?
>
> Do you just want to get a bit more familiar with perl?  Become an elite
> coder?
>

For me, the more perl the better at the moment. I'm really starting to enjoy 
using perl so I'm going to take it as far as I can (or as far as practical 
when I resume studying at ANU next year).

>
> Responses to the list or my address are fine.
>
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Cheers,
Paul.