[Pikes-peak-pm] Rejuvenating the Pikes Peak Perl Mongers

[Ed Loehr]

I appreciate the willingness of the travelers and those with 
freedom to accomodate evenings/weekends.  Personally, I'll limit 
myself to a weekday meeting (early morning or lunch'ish).  Sounds 
like there's some distinct interest for two paths.  Therefore, I 
propose a dual track:

1) A monthly weekday lunch meeting, 1st Wednesday of each month, 
for those limited to weekdays.  First meeting Wed Oct 7 2009 
11:30am at Panera's on N. Academy.  If you're a weekday'er and 
that would work, chime in.  I'm willing to attempt to loosely 
organize that one in the future.

2) A monthly(?) evening meeting the week of the 3rd Wednesday of 
each month.  Tim, sounds like you might be the obvious choice to 
organize with out-of-towners and interested local folks.

As for how to get going on the weekday get-together, I'm thinking 
the simpler, the better:  lunch and low-tech friendly chit-chat.

Ed

On Sunday 20 September 2009 @ 15:51, Tim Chambers wrote:
> Hi Dusty, Doug, Ed, John, Bradley, and David,
>
> Dusty wrote:
> > Is this group still active?  ... I actually live in NW
> > Kansas...
>
> Bradley wrote:
> > I am happy to see some activity here. I live in Buena
> > Vista...
>
> Wow. I'll commit to carve out time to meet with Perl geeks who
> are willing to drive that far! I founded the group. I
> administer the list and the Website. I manually forward
> O'Reilly email occasionally. Looks like the time is right to
> turn up the activity level.
>
> We ought to do something somewhat formal so that Dusty and
> Bradley aren't disappointed. The group crystallized around the
> publicity of a jointly sponsored talk with the Pikes Peak
> Linux Users Group by Eric Raymond over ten years ago. Our
> membership grew to 40 back then. We had a long run of regular
> lunch meetings. It fizzled as people got busy with jobs.
>
> Let's give this some thought. We could also start with a
> virtual event to do some interactive brainstorming. My day job
> has me doing these all the time. There's excellent technology
> for it.
>
> Anyone have a preference for how we get going? I think we
> should do something in the evening to accommodate Dusty and
> Bradley.
>
> -- Tim


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