Phoenix.pm: Tempe/East Vally PerlMongers Approved.

[Scott Walters]

Hi Chris,

OOOooh, I love Volkswagens bugs. My motorcycle doesn't have air
conditioning either, but atleast I get a good breeze as long
as I don't get stuck in downtown rush hour traffic (in which
case it is pretty miserable).

They tried an IRC meeting once. People drifted in and out and 
when they came in, they went idle. I've been playing with
video taping presentations and making audio recordings. 
The video capture software and hardwarae is Windows only,
and I've sunk about a week of my life into trying to make the
stuff works. It simply refuses for any clip over 5 minutes.
It takes about an hour of nursing to get 5 minutes captured.
That's on hold until I get something that works under Unix.
I did capture the audio from the second Fuzzy Logic presentation
and put it up as mp3, though, and announced that to the list.
Not many takers. 2 or 3 if memory serves. 

I think online virtual meetings/presetnations have some potential
but I haven't found the sweet spot yet, or atleast haven't
attained it. I'm thinking video is the way to go, with 
matching HTML slideshow.

-scott



On  0, Chris Krum <cakrum at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >Re: people not returning, there are a lot of people we've seen
> >once that are probably lurking on the list. I'm sure it is nothing
> >personal, just that a bunch of middle aged white guys sitting
> >around a conferance table ain't their idea of a good time =)
> 
> Hey, what's wrong with a "bunch of middle aged white guys sitting
> around a conferance table"? I rather enjoyed my one visit. (Pardon me while
> I scratch my Fuzzy Logic.) My problem is that I usually don't catch up with
> my e-mail until the weekend so I finally hear about the Thursday meeting on
> the Saturday after it's over. (Plus, during the summer I was riding the bus
> because my beat up old bug doesn't have air conditioning.)
> 
> Would a virtual meeting of some kind work?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Walters" <scott at illogics.org>
> To: "Douglas E. Miles" <doug at phoenixinternet.com>
> Cc: <phoenix-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Phoenix.pm: Tempe/East Vally PerlMongers Approved.
> 
> 
> > Hey.
> >
> > Re: people not returning, there are a lot of people we've seen
> > once that are probably lurking on the list. I'm sure it is nothing
> > personal, just that a bunch of middle aged white guys sitting
> > around a conferance table ain't their idea of a good time =)
> >
> > Re: Pablo and McAllester, McAllester and Goldfrab ran and
> > run Contact Designs, whom I worked for quite a while. Before
> > I signed on there, they did a deal with Pablo - I don't know
> > the details - for "dosomething.org". I'm told it i a school
> > related site for getting kids involved (in something, I
> > don't know what, presumably not drugs and violence). They
> > did it in mod_perl, as their first mod_perl site (having
> > a persistant mod_perl fetish lasting through my stay there)
> > and they, well, botched it. They asked for a lot of money
> > and didn't deliver. Pablo and McAllester were mutually
> > afraid of what the other would think of them, or something
> > like that, the way I hear it. I don't think it was bad blood,
> > just discomfort.
> >
> > Pablo was a nice guy. I miss seeing him around. McAllester
> > finally gave up on development after running the guantlet
> > of frustrations associated with it and as far as I know
> > they just sell already written software, application
> > service provider style. They found another cart that
> > was less powerful and less flexible than mine but had a
> > nice admin for setting up new stores and just tell clients
> > now days that they can't have the things they want rather
> > than quoting them a price and trying to deliver. There is
> > something to be said for that, IMHO. Most attempts to write
> > software are misguided, unless the only purpose is education.
> >
> > Re: moving the meetings around the valley, we were talking
> > about doing that at one point but, uh, never quite got around to it.
> >
> > -scott
> >
> > On  0, "Douglas E. Miles" <doug at phoenixinternet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Scott Walters wrote:
> > > > Hi other Scott,
> > > >
> > > > No, nothing like that. Phoenix PM is nothing worth fighting over ;)
> > > >
> > > > On the other hand, people have failed to return. That's far more
> common.
> > > > Not because they were mad at someone, as far as I know, but because
> > > > something uncomfortable happened. Mcallester and Pablo come to
> > > > mind. But even then, that's fairly rare.
> > >
> > > Hey, what's up with that?  I'm always the last to know.  What happened
> > > to Pablo?  I don't remember McAllester.  (No offense if you're out
> > > there.  I just have a bad memory.)  Reply off list if you'd rather.
> > >
> > > > We're all pretty tolerent. All you have to do is keep your hands
> > > > to yourself when asked to do.
> > > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > >
>