[Chicago-talk] Discussion about Chicago.PM and Meetings

[Joel Berger]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Doug Bell wrote:
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>> I've been organizing our meetings for a few months now, and so it's a good time for me to ask some questions that have been on my mind.
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> Thanks for driving this, Doug.
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Agreed!

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>> Karen Pauley brought up that Perl as a sysadmin tool hasn't been lauded or presented as much as it could be,
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> How about lightning talks of "Here's a sysadminny thing that I whipped up and how it saved me untold hours."  I'm sure we all have a few of those.
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I'm sure there must be several of those.

> The big thing we need is to just have people say "I'm going to talk about such-and-such" and we can put it on a schedule.  The farther in advance we can tell people about a meeting and topic, the more can show up.
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>> Andy Lester brought up the idea of a project night as a way to encourage new users and get some code written. David has offered a project up based on PDL (a nice GUI REPL for visualizing and manipulating data),
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> The big idea behind that is that it's something that we can say "OK
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>> Our venue is fine, Bank of America will continue to provide us with meeting space for the foreseeable future.
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> This is huge.  Thanks very much for coordinating that.
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>> 1) There's no public Internet provided.
>> 2) The doors are locked around 6:00p-6:30p, requiring people to enter at the Madison St. entrance, and knock to get the security guards' attention.
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> Have these been a problem?  Or just suboptimal?

So far the accessibility hasn't been too much of a problem, the
wireless internet would be nice. Still a free meeting space is
wonderful!

Joel