[Pikes-peak-pm] Colorado Springs Open Source Software Meetup Group

[Jeffrey Thalhammer]

On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Tim Chambers wrote:

> I looked into creating a Perl Meetup, but meetup.com charges a fee. I think for face to face meetings we should avoid fragmentation.


FWIW, we use Meetup.com to announce meetings for the San Francisco Perl Mongers, and I think it has been tremendously helpful.  Since we started using Meetup, the attendance and energy level have really improved.

Meetup does carry a small subscription fee, but it is usually pretty easy to recoup the cost by adding a $1 to the pizza & beer tab for each person.  As long as everyone knows they are helping to fund the group, no one ever complains.  

Or you may be able to find a corporate sponsor.  Back when I hosted the meetings at my office, I struck a simple deal with my manager.  I told him I was going to expense $50 every month, just to fund Perl Monger stuff.  To him, it was a small price to pay for making contact with the best Perl hackers in the area.

Jeffrey Thalhammer
Imaginative Software Systems
vcard: http://www.imaginative-software.com/contact/jeff.vcf




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