<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Yay top posting!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>At my functional programming group we watched a video from Erlang Factory about Haskell and I think it went alright since we didn't have a local resource who wanted to do a presentation about Haskell. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style:
normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>One other thing we tried last month was "office hours" where people who self-id as "mentors" put their names on a whiteboard along with their area of expertise and then others who come can ask questions about that subject from the mentor. I think that worked *really* well. Plenty of time for networking and the opportunity to ask questions about side-projects or just learning new stuff you didn't really understand previously.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>So there's a couple of ideas.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal;
background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Thanks.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Mark</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:29 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston
<houston@pm.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:39:39 -0400<br clear="none">Todd Rinaldo via Houston <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:houston@pm.org" href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I have a partially formed idea I've been tossing around. There is a<br clear="none">> ton of content online from past and present YAPCs now. Not to mention<br clear="none">> other conferences. Often this content is coming from the author of the<br clear="none">> feature / method being discussed. I was wondering if we could somehow<br clear="none">> integrate that into a meeting with discussion.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> The format might be:<br clear="none">> 1. We vote up and watch a list of videos people like (possibly clipped<br clear="none">> to the good parts)<br clear="none">> 2. Discussion / Q&A of
content.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I get that I and others could do this on our own. So I'm hesitant to<br clear="none">> say there's value. I thought I'd throw it out to the list and see if<br clear="none">> anyone's had any thoughts based on the idea.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[Drat, I didn't reply all on this one.]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I can see this as a start to a discussion in the group. On the other<br clear="none">hand, would everyone really want to sit as a group to watch a video of<br clear="none">someone presenting somewhere else?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Any real opinions?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">G. Wade<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston<br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:houston@pm.org" href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> > Hi everyone,<br
clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > It's about 3 weeks to the next Houston.pm meeting on July 10 at<br clear="none">> > cPanel.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Does anyone have a topic they would like to present?<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Is there any kind of topic you guys would like to hear about?<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > * Perl beginner<br clear="none">> > - we've had a couple of these lately<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> > * Perl advanced<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> > * General programming<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> > * Open Source projects we should know about<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> > * Tools/environment<br clear="none">> > - we
haven't had editor presentations in a while<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> > * Security<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> > * Hardware<br clear="none">> > - doing anything cool with hardware and Perl?<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> > * Something unrelated to Perl, but still of interest to the group<br clear="none">> > - Mind hacks<br clear="none">> > - Making<br clear="none">> > - ?<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Remember the quality of meetings is under your control.<br clear="none">> > G. Wade<br clear="none">> > --<br clear="none">> > It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter<br clear="none">> > how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.<br clear="none">>
> -- Richard Feynman<br clear="none">> > _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> > Houston mailing list<br clear="none">> > <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Houston@pm.org" href="mailto:Houston@pm.org">Houston@pm.org</a><br clear="none">> > <a shape="rect" href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston</a><br clear="none">> > Website: <a shape="rect" href="http://houston.pm.org/" target="_blank">http://houston.pm.org/</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Be a good ancestor.
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