<div dir="auto"><div>Yes, I can help with that issue. I'll send you message off-list with my contact information as well.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Monday/Tuesday/Friday nights work best for me, as long as it's not the 1st Tuesday of the month. ProTip: Attendance will usually be lower for meetings scheduled on Wednesdays; Perl Monger parents with kids involved in after-school programs can't come. (These groups almost universally choose Wednesday nights for their meetings.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lastly, please let me give you some advice that proved it's weight in gold to me: don't try to do this alone. Share leadership and ownership. Distribute your executive function across a two/three person leadership structure so you have committed people to help when 'life happens' and you can't run a scheduled meeting. Have a co-president. Take the offers of help that have been/will be extended. Future success will surely hinge on your ability to depend on a solid team.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- </div><div dir="auto">Tommy Butler<br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 4, 2017 3:11 PM, "Robert Hughes via DFW-pm" <<a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org">dfw-pm@pm.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_6346950337194558056WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Tommy,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That would be greatly appreciated. I just tried emailing Jay (assuming <a href="mailto:user_groups@pm.org" target="_blank">user_groups@pm.org</a> is supposed to go to him) but it bounced.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">What would be our next steps please? Would a call be easier, or is this something we can handle over email?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">As far as timing, Tues and Wed are currently not good due to existing commitments, but I’m open otherwise. And even those days will likely open up in another few months.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I'm so meta even this acronym.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"></p><div class="quoted-text"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org" target="_blank">Tommy Butler via DFW-pm</a><br></div><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 4, 2017 3:06 PM<div class="quoted-text"><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org" target="_blank">DFW Perl Mongers</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ace@tommybutler.me" target="_blank">Tommy Butler</a><br></div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DFW.pm] Perl<p></p></div><div class="elided-text"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">If you folks wasn't to get started that's great! I'll come! I just don't have the cycles for planning, administration, and execution of meetings anymore.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">We should probably discuss what day of the month works best for everyone, or in the least which evening presents the fewest conflicts.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">You might also want to reach out to John Fields to see if the (awesome) venue we previously used is still available.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">John and I can also help in arranging your access to our group mailing list/Meetup page/YouTube channel/Gmail/Google+ account and our former <a href="http://pm.org" target="_blank">pm.org</a> website which needs a DNS update that I can handle, but otherwise provides free hosting for the website.</p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Jul 4, 2017 2:33 PM, "bryan via DFW-pm" <<a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org" target="_blank">dfw-pm@pm.org</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p>I would help. As someone who wasn't always able to attend before, my situation now would allow it more. Count me in.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.8pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.8pt">On 07/04/2017 01:11 PM, Robert Hughes via DFW-pm wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt">Thanks Tommy, that’s very relevant. And so this is the thing; some years back, I ran the North Texas OpenView Forum chapter along with Denise Lucas. I say this to say that I have experience running a user group. What I don’t have is much in the way of perl experience. Neophyte would actually be stretching my level of experience. But rather than just let this group die again, and presuming that someone with more perl experience than I have would also step up, I’d be willing to help run this group, as perl is something I’m very interested in. Additionally, my fiancée is a professional event planner. So we’d have that working for us as well.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt">So what say you, members of DFW perl mongers? Do we want to keep this going? Or no?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt">Regards</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt"> </p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org" target="_blank">Tommy Butler via DFW-pm</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 4, 2017 12:42 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org" target="_blank">DFW Perl Mongers</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ace@tommybutler.me" target="_blank">Tommy Butler</a>; <a href="mailto:mikeflan@att.net" target="_blank">Mike Flannigan</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DFW.pm] Perl</p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt">This may be relevant: <a href="http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/dfw-pm/2017-January/000788.html" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/<wbr>dfw-pm/2017-January/000788.<wbr>html</a></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40.8pt">On Jul 3, 2017 6:53 PM, "Mike Flannigan via DFW-pm" <<a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org" target="_blank">dfw-pm@pm.org</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:45.6pt"><br>Thanks. The Houston club is still doing pretty well <br>thanks to Wade Johnson. They do meetings every months <br>and there are a few posts not related to the meetings.<br><br><br>Mike</p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45.6pt">On 7/3/2017 12:01 PM, Nathan Dyck wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:81.6pt">It is generally pretty quiet. </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:81.6pt"> </p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:81.6pt"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:81.6pt">On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Mike Flannigan via DFW-pm <<a href="mailto:dfw-pm@pm.org" target="_blank">dfw-pm@pm.org</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.2in"><br>If I am not mistaken I have not heard much from this list for<br>about 2 months now. 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