[kw-pm] September's meeting: mod_perl

[lloyd carr]

Cheap beer sounds like evolution to me :-)

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Arguile wrote:

> Date: 04 Sep 2003 13:02:41 -0400
> From: Arguile <arguile at lucentstudios.com>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: Re: [kw-pm] September's meeting: mod_perl
>
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 12:19, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
> > An early announcement, and a question.
> >
> > September's meeting will be a talk on mod_perl led by Arguile.  We've been
> > looking forward to this since the Spring.
>
> So the vegetables and other munitions should be well rotted by now? :)
> >
> > The question is: we have a couple options for the date/location, which
> > bring up a bit of conflict.
> >
> > One choice; on-campus at the bioinformatics lab; on Thursday the 25th (a
> > week later than usual).  Or that Friday at the same location.
>
> I'm thinking if we're trying to attract university students (or anyone
> at all really) having it on one of the last summer Fridays of the year
> might not be that great of an idea.
>
> > Another choice; somewhere else to be determined, on the usual date, with
> > somebody else volunteering to arrange it.
>
> Sticking with a pre-arranged time/place would in general be a good idea
> for scheduling. That said, I don't have any facilities to offer ;).
>
> > Both myself and Tomas who have access to the bioinformatics lab will be
> > out of town during the usual date this month.  So I wouldn't be able to
> > make it for option B, which wouldn't be the end of the world and I'd
> > be fine with that option; especially because:
> >
> > I've been in contact with Richard Dice of Toronto.pm and we've been also
> > invited to Toronto.pm for their yearly Lightning Talks; which is *also*
> > Thursday the 25th.
>
> > My inclination is, since we're trying to welcome local students, we
> > shouldn't make a to.pm road-trip our official meeting; and, we shouldn't
> > put off poor Arguile another month for his talk.
>
> Agreed on the first. If it comes down to skipping it again it's no big
> deal to me.
>
> > So if we can swing another location for the usual date (the 18th), we
> > could ALSO have a road-trip to toronto for the lightning talks (which are
> > a number of 5-10 minute talks; the format is popular at YAPC and is a lot
> > of fun).
>
> Or we could meet Wednesday then go down to the Mongolian Grille after
> for $6.99 pitcher night (if we're at/near the university). This
> completely counters my original arguement of a set date each month, but
> it *is* beer.
>
> kw.pm: Devolution in progress. =P
>
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