LPM: Meetings and attendance

[David Hempy]

At 10:30 AM 2/11/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>The main issue seems to be that people are not coming to meetings. Now,
>last month, we had a decent turnout, but only when compared to the few
>months before that. When we first started LPM, there were regularly 10+
>people in attendance. Now we think it's a great turnout if we have 5.

Monday nights work as well for me as Wednesday nights and lunch almost any 
day.  Jo-Beth sounds like fun.  I like the idea of a restaurant meeting.


>Perhaps time and location are not the issue. Perhaps we simply aren't
>providing any useful purpose to those folks that are not coming.

Now that you mention it...

I could make more meetings than I do, but don't feel real compelled a lot 
of the time.  The meetings I do go to I always get something out 
of.  However, that something might be hearing news about Larry or Nat's 
latest observations or some Perl community gossip.  Interesting stuff, but 
not worth a few hours of my month.

The meetings when I learn to be a better perl programmer are the ones that 
keep me coming back.  I will continue to attend meetings that are likely to 
benefit me as a programmer.  I don't want to sound like a whiney-heimer, as 
we're all volunteers and I admit I haven't contributed to the group's 
collective education.  I just feel that some (certainly not all) of the 
meetings that I've gotten to in the last year are more for perl junkies 
more than perl programmers.  That's fine, but not what I'm looking for.


Okay...hope I haven't pissed anyone off.  Just offering why my perspective 
for anyone who is concerned about attendance numbers.

-dave





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