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

Mathew Robertson mathew.blair.robertson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 16:34:28 PST 2015


mod_perl is your friend.

On 7 January 2015 at 11:22, Tim Connors <tim.w.connors at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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