[Melbourne-pm] Perl Mongers in 2015...

[Tim Connors]

Ooh, I wonder if I should put something together about my air
conditioner/heater controller.  Teaching myself ajax, and javascript, but
on the minus side, using CGI::Fast (on the pi, CGI ':standard' takes about
a second to load, and when it takes 5 ajax queries to display the state of
the air conditioner, fast matters; plus, I'm too old a dog to learn
mojolicious and everything all the cool kids are using.  On the
minus-minus-bad side, the AC's state machine is done in bash.

But yet, pub next Wednesday.

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Stephen Edmonds wrote:

> There was a blog post I read last year (and now cannot find again) that
> talked about changes that a perl mongers group (I think San Francisco...)
> made that resulted in their meetings growing.
>
> One big change was that they dropped the fixed day of the month for the
> meetings. If there was a speaker that was not available on Wednesdays but
> was available on Thursdays, then there would be a meeting on a Thursday.
> They also saw a number of new people as it turned out there were a number
> of people on the mailing list that also couldn't make a Wednesday but could
> make a Thursday. Of course there were some that then couldn't make the
> Thursday, but over time that would even out with meetings on Tuesdays,
> Fridays, Mondays, etc...
>
> Another change they made was to not require the talks to be on perl, just
> that the talks should be something interesting to people that used perl.
> This concept is not new to us, I remember a talk on git a few years ago and
> more recently there was a night where the focus was on embedded systems
> such as arduino, raspberry pi, beaglebone, etc.
>
> These are things to consider...
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>
>
> On 7 January 2015 at 08:53, Dean Hamstead <dean at fragfest.com.au> wrote:
>
> >  From my experience in Sydney PM and taken from experiences with SF pm
> > and SL pm - just start having meetings consistently and attendance will
> > swell.
> >
> > Even if the first meeting is 3-4 people, press forward and promote each
> > event via blogs.perl.org, reddit, facebook etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dean
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2015-01-06 23:53, Stephen Edmonds wrote:
> >
> > After not having any meetings in 2014, what are we going to do in 2015?
> >
> > How about we get started with a social meeting on the 14th? We have had a
> > decent number at the Mitre Tavern in the past...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> >
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Tim Connors