[pm-h] July Houston.pm: Call for presentation

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:24:12 -0500
Mike Flannigan via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> You guys are doing a great job of putting on quality
> meetings.  I would encourage you to record the meetings
> on Utube like YAPC did.

We've been doing some of that lately. Todd has been driving that when
he's available.

We really need to get our process down so that it's repeatable.

G. Wade

> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/28/2014 8:22 AM, B. Estrade via Houston wrote:
> 
> I think there is something to Todd's idea that could work and not just
> be a bunch of geeks watching Youtube videos while sitting idle.
> 
> Perhaps we could dedicate some time (5-10 min, max) to providing some
> "recommended videos" list.  I know that inevitably there are talks
> that are and are not worth your time.  Some of us could help compile
> this offline.
> 
> Likewise, coming off the heels of YAPC, would it be worth
> brainstorming with the group to get a list of interesting topics that
> attendees might wish to hear or talk about?  I have this half-brained
> idea that if we cultivate a list of "interesting topics," it might
> dawn on someone that their specialty/interest is also an interest of
> others. Once we get an initial list, I am happy to feed and water that
> list. I am interested in such a list, not just for Houston.pm, but as
> a general list that anyone looking for Perl talks could turn to to see
> what might be some interesting topics.
> 
> Looking ahead .. Another approach that we might want to consider is
> that instead of collecting ideas or topics to present, is to
> proactively seek out a stable of individuals who want to present and
> who like to present. It seems like it'd be a lot easier to grow a core
> group of presenters rather than each time trying to convince someone
> new to step up.  The reason I say this is because we have a group of
> people who would certainly talk about (whatever) if asked. I would, I
> know a few others who would (and do) regularly.
> 
> We should absolutely seek out new speakers and highly encourage it,
> but in my opinion it's a whole lot easier to generate talks if we have
> a maintained list of topics and a group of people who we know are
> willing to talk (about anything.)  This would also work well for
> "lightning talk" meetings if we make sure the people who we know will
> talk (about something) will show up.  I think that focusing on having
> a regular rotation of @speakers willing to talk about @things (as
> determined by work we do to survey the group) is a good recipe for
> building up regular attendance.
> 
> (beware, blue sky tangent)
> 
> At some point if we have some "go to" people and have built up
> attendance (bc we're serving real needs), I think it'd be super cool
> to take that leap and organize a bona fide 1 or 2 day Houston Perl
> Workshop - especially considering that 2/4 of the YAPC::NA sponsors
> that had tables are also sponsors of Houston.pm, I imagine that we
> have that part covered pretty well.  I say all of this fully
> recognizing the fact that I am also volunteering to play a large part
> in any effort to organize this.
> 
> Thank you,
> Brett
> 
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