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

[Brad Bowman]

An interesting take on user group meetings:

http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours

Have office hours rather than lecture style.
I've also attended groups that hack on projects.
The Perl bug bash way back when was fun.

Brad

On 15-01-06 03:59 PM, 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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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