[niederrhein.pm] Niederrhein.pm Treffen Oktober 2014 am 18:00 at LoveRails in Köln

[Jens Rehsack]

Aloah,

No one is or had been forced to register at Meetup.com
It's just the huge amount of people who are neither on the mailing list nor
on Meetup who are asked whether one or the other registration would be neat
to give us response who's joining the next meeting or not.

When we exceed the 10 people regularly, we should start caring for more
seats for peaks ...
When no one is coming, it's nice to know before that the meeting organizer
(usually one from core team) knows that a travel of 1-2h per direction can
be avoided.

Replying last 12 month, we had no unvisited date - but the months before
were not such successful. To avoid demotivation of organizers during holiday
and travel times, it's an act of courtesy to tell organizers "you're alone
tonight" :P

Cheers

Am 21.10.2014 um 15:21 schrieb Johannes Markert <johannes.markert at gmail.com>:

> Hey there!
> 
> After so many heartwarming statements during the last days,
> I have to give you all at least a little response. ;-)
> 
> Your maillinglist doesn't seem dead to me and I'm following -
> ' pretty sure others do as well.
> 
> One comment on this meetup.com thing:
> I'm definitely not interested in registering there. Maillinglists
> just work fine for me. It is the most convinient
> way to stay in touch with a user group I can think of.
> 
> What concerns me more is the shameful lack of a nice little website.
> Nothing too fancy and complicated. Just some pictures, an overview
> when and where there were the last meetings and what has been discussed
> there. This should do it. As far as I see it, our target group is not a
> big fan of social networks anyway. They (and we of course!) prefer
> the old fashioned way. Keep it simple and stupid!
> I'm looking forward to debate this with you tonight!
> 
> By the way, all user groups I attended so far have the same issue
> we are discussing here in one way or the other. ;-D
> 
> Cheers,
> Johannes
> 
> PS: @Wendy: I cannot wait to listen to what you have to say about Perl 6. :-D
> 
> PSS: Does anyone has any insights into Perl/TK? I have some questions about that.
> 
> On 10/21/2014 02:18 PM, Wendy G.A. van Dijk wrote:
>> At 11:26 AM 10/21/2014, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>> >* Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+nrpm at rabbit.us> [2014-10-18 18:10]:
>> >> In short I am not in any way married to the idea, so if most people
>> >> really *dislike* the virtually free advertisement we get through
>> >> meetup - maybe I should kill the account. I am open to ideas either
>> >> way (including handing it over/adding more orgas).
>> >
>> >FWIW since I publicly stated my lack of intention to get an account on
>> >meetup.com, I should add it is not due to any objection to the listing
>> >itself, nor to the site. (I simply dislike opening accounts in general.)
>> 
>> I am with Aristotle on this.  I already have way too many accounts that I hardly use (in most cases just for one specific use with low traffic), and several accounts that I really really use a lot.  One more would not hurt, of course, but I have been cleaning house, as in closing dozens of accounts this year.
>> 
>> I know very well that we could communicate a bit more on this mailinglist.  We could ask people to come to the meetings with a bit more pressure (as in, Perl people react to pressure in meaningful ways...  eh, I mean "please please come") and we could post summaries of what happened at the meeting.  We could urge people more to give presentations.
>> 
>> To give the right example...   I prepared a discussion topic for tonight.  About Perl 6 and when it will be Christmas.  Let's see if people are interested.
>> 
>> See you all tonight.  Please, please, come, give a technical presentation (or have a subject to discuss).
>> 
>> Greetz,
>> Wendy van Dijk
>> 
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