From westerman at purdue.edu Mon Jun 1 07:42:10 2009 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:42:10 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Meeting tomorrow, Jun 2 Message-ID: <4A23E8C2.6030306@purdue.edu> Don't forget the meeting tomorrow as per our new summer schedule: --------- For the Summer of 2009 our technical meetings have changed time, day-of-month, and location. The meetings are now a lunch brown bag from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Talks will start at noon with the time between 11:30 and noon devoted to idle chit-chat. The meetings are on the 1st Tuesday of the month (Jun 2, Jul 7, Aug 4, Sep 1) in WSLR 116. ---------- At the moment I am the only one scheduled to talk but that could change. If nothing else we'll chit-chat computer for the lunch hour. -- Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR building From gizmo at purdue.edu Tue Jun 2 07:35:59 2009 From: gizmo at purdue.edu (Joe Kline) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:35:59 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Meeting tomorrow, Jun 2 In-Reply-To: <4A23E8C2.6030306@purdue.edu> References: <4A23E8C2.6030306@purdue.edu> Message-ID: <4A2538CF.30603@purdue.edu> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I won't be able to make it (as much as I was planning to). My schedule just became really busy/full. joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKJTjOb0mzA2gRTpkRAhgTAJwMZUnebUNYXP65AsLFEN7t/yU8NACfeqV2 45242i8Lo8o1gO+589fOdTU= =EI/Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From westerman at purdue.edu Tue Jun 2 10:16:11 2009 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:16:11 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Meeting today; July's meeting Message-ID: <4A255E5B.8040002@purdue.edu> I hope that people enjoyed today's luncheon meeting. I think that the format (i.e., meet over the noon hour) works well. For next month we have the following 4 talks scheduled. Please jump in if you wish to give a presentation since it is likely that the 4 talks will be either short or re-scheduled. JQuery revisited -- DaveJacoby Profiling -- MikeGribskov Parallel HTTP -- Greg PDL (perl data language); can it be used in Genomics? -- RickWesterman -- Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR building From jacoby at purdue.edu Tue Jun 16 06:24:15 2009 From: jacoby at purdue.edu (Dave Jacoby) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:24:15 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Improving Attendance at Linux (and presumably Perl) User Groups Message-ID: <4A379CFF.4090803@purdue.edu> http://everythingsysadmin.com/2009/06/improving-attendance-at-linux.html Two things I observed. 1. New people didn't feel welcome. Suggestion: Go out of your way to make new people feel welcome. Have a designated person show up early and just say "hi" to everyone that walks in. Most of us are introverts and would be turned off by someone that tries to make small-talk, but just hearing someone say "hi" is great. Have good signs on the doors so people know where to go. Nothing makes new people feel unwanted like a lack of being told where your meeting is. I once went to a meeting (not a LUG, but the issue is the same) only to discover that the web site listed the address, but not the specific room... or which building. There were no signs telling me where to go. Ugh. 2. If you have a Q&A session, the moderator should never answer the questions. People come to share and everyone wants their turn to show off. A big mistake I see is that the moderator will answer each question then look around and say, "Does anyone else have anything to add?" Nobody answers. Gee, I wonder why. Well, the moderator just expressed their dominance and anything else would be an affront to the leader. Folks, this is an open source movement. We all have power and knowledge and good stuff to day. If you are the moderator, be the last person to speak. Sure you know the perfect answer, in fact I bet you have 5 points you'd like to make. However, so do other people in the audience. Get them to say the answer. Let a couple people speak. After 3-4 people speak it is likely that 4 of the 5 points you wanted to make have been made already. Now you can chime in with your 5th point. Everyone else got their chance to shine and your 5 points were made. You'll still look brilliant for having a 5th point that nobody else thought of, but you won't look overbearing. Those are the top 2 problems I've seen. Not necessarily a specific critique of our group, but I thought it was worth passing along. -- Dave Jacoby Address: WSLR S049 Genomics Core Programmer Mail: jacoby at purdue.edu Purdue University Jabber: jacoby at jabber.org Phone: hah! From westerman at purdue.edu Tue Jun 30 12:05:13 2009 From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:05:13 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] July meeting is moved to the 14th Message-ID: <4A4A61E9.3000106@purdue.edu> July 7th turns out to be busy for some of the stalwarts -- there is a bioinformatics meeting down at IUPUI that day. and the next day I can not reserve a room. So we (or at least myself) have moved the meeting to the next week, Tuesday July 14th, 11:30 to 1:30. See you then. And get those talks in order! -- Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR building