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An interesting take on user group meetings:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours">http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours</a><br>
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Have office hours rather than lecture style.<br>
I've also attended groups that hack on projects.<br>
The Perl bug bash way back when was fun.<br>
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On 15-01-06 03:59 PM, Stephen Edmonds wrote:<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>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...<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>These are things to consider...<br>
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Stephen<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 January 2015 at 08:53, Dean
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Even if the first meeting is 3-4 people, press forward
and promote each event via <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogs.perl.org" target="_blank">blogs.perl.org</a>,
reddit, facebook etc.</p>
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<p>Dean</p>
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<p>On 2015-01-06 23:53, Stephen Edmonds wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">After not having any meetings in
2014, what are we going to do in 2015?
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<div>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...
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Stephen</div>
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