[pm-h] A potential "adventure" for the group

Will Willis will.willis at gmail.com
Wed May 10 20:25:50 PDT 2006


Let's do it! I'd be willing to help how ever I can! (except for directing
traffic or anything else requiring me to be out in the heat </grin>)

I'm entertaining thoughts of heading up to this year's YAPC -- is anybody
else going?

-Will


On 5/10/06, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
>
> A couple of days ago, I received email from the leader of the
> bazosvalley.pm
> group asking if we would be interested in partnering on a big project.
> Jeremy
> suggested that we put in a proposal for bringing YAPC::NA (Yet Another
> Perl
> Conference: North America) to Houston in 2007.
>
> This year YAPC::NA is in Chicago. There is quite a bit of information
> about
> the bid process and Chicago's proposal on-line. If the group is
> interested,
> I'll post links and information on our website where everyone has access.
>
> This would be an opportunity to get some of the big names in Perl here
> where
> we can see them. It would also be an opportunity to go to one of these
> conferences without travel (for those who don't like to travel). It's also
> a
> way to try to increase interest in Perl around our city.
>
> All that being said, I don't think it is reasonable for one or two people
> to
> jump on this and try to make it happen. This should be a group effort. I'd
> hate to get YAPC::NA to come here and have the Perl community come to the
> conclusion that Houston doesn't have any people interested in the
> language.
>
> So the question for the group is:
>
> Are we ready and willing to take up the challenge?
>
> If so, we can ask for volunteers to handle different parts of the
> research. I
> know someone who has offered her writing skills to help us with a polished
> proposal (she can write, unlike many of us and has over a decade of
> experience
> with conferences). She's willing to provide anything from completely
> writing
> the proposal to editing a proposal that we author.
>
> What do you say, Houston.pm? Do we want to do this?
>
> G. Wade
> --
> Why do your people ask if someone's ready right before you are going to do
> something massively unwise?        -- Delenn - "The War without End"
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