[oak perl] State of the pm: March 1, 2003

[George Woolley]

State of the Oakland.pm
March 1, 2003
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Affiliations
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O'Reilly User Group Program
    got 6 books/products: as gift, to 6 different people
    books and products reviewed: 6 (3 more)
    banner opportunities taken: 3
Perl Mongers

Listings
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Website References:
   CostaRica.pm
   Ecovillage (on calendar)
   Google Directory
   Monterey.pm (link to our related groups list)
   Perl Mongers North American List
   San Francisco.pm (on related groups list)
Planned:
   HawkesBay.pm
Earlier we requested listings with:
   Berkeley.pm
   Linux Mafia
   SiliconValley.pm
(I've basically given up on these. Oh, well.)
The following don't have listings for related groups:
   Sonoma.pm

Search Engine Listings:
Try +Oakland +"Perl Mongers".
I  tried (2003-02-27) on the 6 top search engines
per my most recent evaluation (2003-01)
(i.e. on Google, AOL Search, Excite, Teoma and Yahoo, Alta Vista)
with the following result:
All 6 had either our site or the PM link to it
in one of the first 3 positions.

Mailing Lists
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Oakland.pm mailing list subscribers: 17 (as of 2003-02-27)
Oakland.pm messages:
      November  106
      December  99
      January  54
      February  115 

PBML mailing list subscribers: 12 (as of 2003-02-27)
PBML messages:
      (all messages lost, I believe)
      December  39 (many messages lost, I believe)
      January  15
      February 52

Meetings
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monthly meeting attendees:
      November  3
      December  9
      January  8
      February 11

regular meeting time: 2nd Tuesday at 7:30pm
regular meeting place: not yet determined.
places we've tried:
      #1 Coffee Mill (not open)
      #2 George Woolley's (too small)
      #3 Village Restaurant**
      #4 Arden Schaeffer's**
places not tried but being considered:
           David Fetter's**
places considered and rejected: 5 (that I know of)
under consideration: see **

longer term: what do we want?

status: still looking

March Meeting Plans:
talk by: no talk
theme: social, looking at what next
          select a meeting place

invitations out for speakers: 1

future speakers:
March: no speaker (by design)
April: David Fetter
May: not yet determined
June: Dan Meriwether

Website
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The Home Page includes sections on:
      what the Club is at all
      the next meeting
      * acknowledgements
      * contact info
There are separate pages on:
      * related groups
      * members (including 8 profiles)
There are separate directories for:
      * learning
      * mailinglists
      * meetings
      * reviews (including 4 book reviews)
and also for
      * directions
      * our O'Reilly User Group affiliation 
            (including newsletters)

Finally
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Comments? Corrections?

    -- George