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

[Dusty Wilson]

Oops, didn't send to the list.  Sorry Bradley!

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Dusty Wilson <dusty at hey.nu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Bradley C Bailey
> <pikespeak-pm at brad.memoryleak.org> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> For now I'd be happy with something informal such as sitting around chatting
>> about our experiences with perl, the technologies we have used, what we work
>> on nowdays, etc.
>>
>> I could probably fit in an occasional lunch -- no need to make a special
>> schedule on my account.
>
> I agree.  And I think that if we put too much into it to make it
> special, it'll fail prematurely.  I'm alright with something totally
> informal.  If it evolves into something formal, that's cool.  But just
> lunch or dinner works for me to start out (or indefinitely).  I'm
> pretty available for whatever time.  I'm mostly a manager-type these
> days and don't have to be in the office to do my job, as long as I'm
> not travelling on business at the time.  I'll let someone else choose
> a time/date/venue.
>
> Dusty
>