[Pikes-peak-pm] restarting PPPM...?

[Ed Loehr]

[resent from PPPM-subscribed email address...]

Hey y'all,

I'm interested in reviving this group somewhat to meet over a 
weekday lunch, perhaps monthly, in N. Colorado Springs or 
Monument area.  Ideal meeting location for me is Baptist Road 
area (Chili's, etc), but I will drive as far south as Woodmen 
area or as far north as the El Paso county line, Monument, etc.

My thought is it'd be fun to start some new friendships, business 
connections, and learn about what other people are doing with 
perl in a casual, respectful, collegial setting.  I work out of a 
basement office, don't get out enough(!), and I've often had need 
for perl development help but without local contacts.  Just lunch 
and casual chit-chat would be good... and/or perhaps taking turns 
volunteering for a simple presentation of something perl'ish one 
has been working on would be informative.  It'd be nice to find a 
place that would support overhead projections from a laptop, but 
low-tech works, too.

A little about me... I run a software consultancy based in 
CoSprings (LoehrTech.com).  I grew up in CA/NM, went to HS in NM, 
then Eastern NM Univ (Portales, NM) then CU-Boulder, worked in 
Boulder, then Austin, TX for 6 years, mostly high-tech startups, 
and have been in CoSprings for ~8 years now.  I've been in 
software industry for ~20 years now, doing perl'ish stuff for ~15 
years, busy raising 7 amazing kids with my lovely wife of 24yrs, 
I ride a road bicyle, play the guitar occasionally, like college 
football, hiking/camping/fishing, playing with my kids.

Let me know if you're still interested, and we'll just start!

Cheers,
Ed



On Friday 11 September 2009 @ 06:16, Dusty Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Cindy Teel & Doug Baker
>
> <cfdbaker at qwest.net> wrote:
> > I found the group, actually the web site, about two years
> > ago and tried to make contact only to find that nothing was
> > happening. I live in Colorado Springs. Sigh.
>
> It looks like just about all of the nearby PM groups are dead
> as well. "Nearby" meaning any PM group in a state bordering
> Kansas.  The only PM group in Kansas has a site that says
> "coming soon".  I have a feeling it's been like that for
> awhile.
>
> > What I have observed is an apparent automated site which
> > periodically forwards O'Reilly Press articles, the address
> > must be on an O'Reilly distro. Maybe you received a direct
> > from others, as from me.
>
> I did get an email from John Evans basically saying that PPPM
> is dead. This is unfortunate.  I'd love to get together with
> some Perl people in a physical setting.  It doesn't really
> sound like that is possible around here.  Too bad!  If anyone
> wants to get together some time, let me know and I'd be
> interested in driving out there for a lunch or dinner thing
> with a few people.
>
> Dusty
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