[Kc] Reminder: Meeting tonight 7pm at Planet Sub

djgoku djgoku at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 08:09:35 PDT 2006


On 7/12/06, Andrew Moore <amoore at mooresystems.com> wrote:
> I think that having two meetings per month would mean that we would
> get about half as many people in each meeting. I personally am not too
> keen on going to biweekly meetings, so I'd just go to every other
> one. I'd hate to get essentially two groups: kcmo.pm.org and
> kcsouthland.pm.org. That's a bad scenerio.
>
> I would attend monthly meetings if we alternated between KCMO and
> suburbia each month or even just moved them to Overland Park for a
> while. I don't mind driving out to JCCC or wherever for
> meetings. Maybe it's time we Missourians pay our dues like the
> SprintLand folks have been doing for ~5 years.
>
> What about someplace like Barley's Brewhouse at about 119 and Quivera?
> Free WiFi, beer on tap, tolerable barfood, and surely wouldn't mind if
> we scooted a few tables together?
>
> > If there's no standing agenda to the meetings. Then I think people might
> > be more likely to make it a regular thing.
>
> I'll try to be more diligent about indicating anticipated discussion
> topics. I recall that when you encouraged book reviews, weekly
> puzzles, and stuff like that the attendance was higher and the
> discussion stayed more centered around perl.

I think that would be awesome! I can possibly give a review of
Learning Perl after I finished reading it.

> > If the meeting venues are near
> > enough to JCCC and UMKC/Rockhurst... we might eventually pick up some
> > spill over interest from the college crowd.
>
> Anyone know any applicable college mailing lists to occasionally
> announce to? I think that David is our official college contact or
> something.

I am currently a student at JCCC soon to be UMKC, I am not sure I will
be able to keep my JCCC account after I leave.


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