From jay at adei.com Mon Mar 1 00:07:10 1999 From: jay at adei.com (Jay Di Silvestri) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:31 2004 Subject: Hello perl mongers Message-ID: <36DA2E8E.320C0425@adei.com> Since our initial posting on perl.org attracted about ten subscribers . . .I was thinking that we could get together soon. (we can keep this all virtual if that's what people prefer) . Is anyone going to the LinuxWorld this week in San Jose? Also, I noticed that the North Bay Linux users group (www.nblug.org) meets monthly at O'reilly in Sebastopol. The next meeting is on March 9th. I'll be there, both because I want to check it out and I want to get the word out about this group. Hopefully, we can have a couple of members there. . . Any ideas on where to go with this group? I link the idea of a mailing list. I think that people should feel free to use this as a help line if they are comfortable. It seems like a web site would be a good idea, perhaps some advocacy work with local businesses/schools too. What do people think? With so few people right now, if the traffic is low on this list I'll wait until the March 9 nblug.org meeting before I send another message. Please feel free to evangelize the group. --jay@adei.com From eric at eisenhart.com Mon Mar 1 02:58:18 1999 From: eric at eisenhart.com (Eric Eisenhart) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:31 2004 Subject: Hello perl mongers In-Reply-To: <36DA2E8E.320C0425@adei.com>; from Jay Di Silvestri on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:07:10PM -0800 References: <36DA2E8E.320C0425@adei.com> Message-ID: <19990301005818.A5865@eisenhart.com> On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:07:10PM -0800, Jay Di Silvestri wrote: > Since our initial posting on perl.org attracted about ten subscribers . > . .I was thinking that we could get together soon. (we can keep this > all virtual if that's what people prefer) . Is anyone going to the > LinuxWorld this week in San Jose? Also, I noticed that the North Bay > Linux users group (www.nblug.org) meets monthly at O'reilly in > Sebastopol. The next meeting is on March 9th. I'll be there, both > because I want to check it out and I want to get the word out about this > group. Hopefully, we can have a couple of members there. . . I think it's a good idea to get anybody that's interested in helping out with a Perl Users Group together to talk about the whole idea. Some initial Emails to get us all on the same page seem like a good idea too, though. I'm interested in helping out with this group however I can. In fact, Jay simply beat me to it; I'd already been sorta working up to it, but was a bit too busy with NBLUG and put it off. I'm going to be at LinuxWorld on Wednesday, and at the SVLUG meeting that follows. (It's a panel discussion on how to run an effective Linux Users Group) I'm one of the organizers (vice-president?) of NBLUG. I'm sure that if you want a minute or two at the beginning of the NBLUG meeting to mention that you're starting a Perl Users Group that can be arranged. Just ask people to come up and talk to you after the meeting; there's typically about half an hour after the meeting "proper" to hang out and talk to people, etc. > Any ideas on where to go with this group? I link the idea of a mailing > list. I think that people should feel free to use this as a help line > if they are comfortable. It seems like a web site would be a good idea, > perhaps some advocacy work with local businesses/schools too. What do > people think? A web site that contains at least the basic information on the group would be essential. I'm hoping to pick up some useful information on how to run a LUG at the SVLUG meeting, and I suspect a lot of that would translate from Linux to Perl easily. Also, I went to one of the SanFrancisco.pm (SFPUG?) meetings and talked briefly with one of the people that helps run it, and they've got a definite interest in helping out other Perl groups relatively near their own. It'd probably be worth it to get some people from Sonoma.pm down to one of their monthly meetings, or at least the organizing meeting they usually have a week or so later. From list at mindling.com Mon Mar 29 20:28:37 1999 From: list at mindling.com (Sebastian Mindling) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:31 2004 Subject: Great! Message-ID: <370036D5326.EABELIST@smtp.best.com> A local perl group! Any plans for meetings yet? _________________________________________________________ Sebastian Mindling From jay at adei.com Mon Mar 29 23:46:46 1999 From: jay at adei.com (Jay Di Silvestri) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:31 2004 Subject: Great! References: <370036D5326.EABELIST@smtp.best.com> Message-ID: <37006545.9C7AABE3@adei.com> Not yet. Hopefully the group will find a consensus. I was hoping that we could dovetail in with the nblug meetings (at least at first) but I guess that we'll have to wait until dustin clears up that insurance issue. Even if O'reilly washes out I'm sure that we can find a good spot. We also need to get a website and whatever other virtual presence that we need up. My office can do all that, but I design rather ugly web pages (so I'm told). Do we have any artists in the group that would like to step forward and volunteer their services . . . Sebastian Mindling wrote: > A local perl group! > > Any plans for meetings yet? > > _________________________________________________________ > Sebastian Mindling From jay at adei.com Tue Mar 9 17:20:30 1999 From: jay at adei.com (Jay Di Silvestri) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:21:36 2004 Subject: linux meeting Message-ID: <36E5ACBE.8A12ED4B@adei.com> FYI a quickie reminder that nblug will meet tonight at 7:30 pm. Anyone who can make it please attend so that we can get sonoma.pm up and running. for details please see www.nblug.org