<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>We released the new website at <a href="http://charlotte.pm.org">http://charlotte.pm.org</a>. You can register by visiting the 'join' link. Member's are welcome to contribute. Just ping me for an account upgrade. </div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Last night's meeting was very productive. William and I thought it would be good to share the discussion with the group and Kurt was kind enough to send notes. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Here's the overview of results from the planning meeting.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1) we only have 4 formal technical meetings a year, at least for now until the group gets bigger.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2) We try to get biz journals to be our main business sponsor, having our four formal/technical meetings there a year. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3) We get one or two recruiters that are beneficial and socially compatible to the group to buy the snacks and drinks for these meetings. In return they can come, hand out business cards meet people, post jobs to our website etc. These same recruiters are also welcome to come to any informal social gatherings we might have. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">4) We don't ask any money from the recruiters and we ask them to in turn not give out our phone numbers to other recruiters.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">5) We also discussed having speakers come to Charlotte. We need to do more research on this topic. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">6) William is going to respond to Raleigh.pm offering our help for the YAPC::NA bid for 2008. We'll find out from that what we need to do to help.</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Diona<br></div></div></div></body></html>