<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mon'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">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:<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>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.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>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.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>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.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Ed<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Sunday 20 September 2009 @ 15:51, Tim Chambers wrote:<br>
> Hi Dusty, Doug, Ed, John, Bradley, and David,<br>
><br>
> Dusty wrote:<br>
> > Is this group still active? ... I actually live in NW<br>
> > Kansas...<br>
><br>
> Bradley wrote:<br>
> > I am happy to see some activity here. I live in Buena<br>
> > Vista...<br>
><br>
> Wow. I'll commit to carve out time to meet with Perl geeks who<br>
> are willing to drive that far! I founded the group. I<br>
> administer the list and the Website. I manually forward<br>
> O'Reilly email occasionally. Looks like the time is right to<br>
> turn up the activity level.<br>
><br>
> We ought to do something somewhat formal so that Dusty and<br>
> Bradley aren't disappointed. The group crystallized around the<br>
> publicity of a jointly sponsored talk with the Pikes Peak<br>
> Linux Users Group by Eric Raymond over ten years ago. Our<br>
> membership grew to 40 back then. We had a long run of regular<br>
> lunch meetings. It fizzled as people got busy with jobs.<br>
><br>
> Let's give this some thought. We could also start with a<br>
> virtual event to do some interactive brainstorming. My day job<br>
> has me doing these all the time. There's excellent technology<br>
> for it.<br>
><br>
> Anyone have a preference for how we get going? I think we<br>
> should do something in the evening to accommodate Dusty and<br>
> Bradley.<br>
><br>
> -- Tim<br>
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