Gabor,<br><br>Please note that this is my own personal opinion, I certainly don't want to speak for anyone else...<br><br>Not to be overly critical of your blog post (and you are of course entitled to your opinions), but I'm somewhat confused as to the purpose of your blog as it seems only to exist to critique the web sites of PM groups rather than actually providing any insight whatsoever into the actual groups themselves.<br>
<br>Let me state up front that I'm nothing more than a quiet observer of
the information exchanged by this PM group (I'm fairly certain this is my first message to the mailing list ever, actually), but I have found those
involved here to be extremely quick to respond to questions and also exceptionally
knowledgeable with the guidance provided in their replies. Also, although I've seen somewhat of a decline in email traffic regarding meetings recently, in the past meetings seemed to be semi-regularly setup and attended.<br>
<br>That being said, I can't disagree with your underlying point that the website very likely is in need of attention, though I can't comment too much on that as I haven't had need to visit it since I first joined the mailing list.<br>
<br> I guess I just don't see the correlation between your purported goal of meeting PM groups and your apparent desire to almost completely disregard any communication on the mailing list prior to posting your blog entry which seems, at least to me, to be overly negative with little to no effort put forth to meet or interact with this group prior to its writing whatsoever.<br>
<br>My apologies if I seem overly defensive or critical, I have just found the Chicago Perl Mongers to be positive, insightful, and helpful time and time again in the nearly 2 years I have been following their mailing list.<br>
<br>Sincerely,<br>Chris Hamilton<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Gabor Szabo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:szabgab@gmail.com" target="_blank">szabgab@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I know you will hate me for this but I could not help.<br>
I am on a virtual world tour to visit Perl Monger groups and<br>
blog about them.<br>
<br>
This time I visited Chicago.pm<br>
<br>
<a href="http://perlmongers.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/perl-mongers-in-chicago/" target="_blank">http://perlmongers.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/perl-mongers-in-chicago/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
regards<br>
Gabor<br>
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Gabor Szabo<br>
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