[Thousand-oaks-pm] Minutes from the 8/10/05 Thousand Oaks PM meeting [Homework assignment]

[Todd Presta]

All three of the aforementioned reasons are why I am interested in this group.

Aside from the three, advocacy is another important reason. The fact that I participate
and make known that I participate in a Perl enthusiast group keeps it fresh in the minds
of my superiors and associates. It is sometimes easy to forget what technology solved a
problem when it is quick to implement and reliable.

"Do you want to program or solve a problem? Well...um...both." :)


--- Daniel Sherer <dsherer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Minutes from Perl Mongers' meeting on 8/10/05
> 
> Present:	Andrew Woods
> 		Aran Deltac
> 		Daniel Sherer
> 		Jeff Tam
> 		Jerry Ursetti
> 		Jim Walker
> 		Paul Jacobs
> 		Todd Presta
> 
> The meeting started around 7:00 PM, as usual, with some introductions
> and informal discussion.  
> 
> The main topic of the evening involved selecting a domain name for
> our group so that we could setup our own webhost and make maintenance
> of it easier (the current PM.org only allows updates via “DAV” and
> they have suffered multiple outages and rebuilds resulting in our
> site frequently being un-maintainable.)
> 
> We kicked around a lot of different names (each person present
> proposed at least one) and we considered placement of hyphens and
> contractions.  
> 
> Two of the other reasons for this discussion were a desire to create
> a mission/vision for our group (why should anyone belong or attend?)
> and the possibility that our name was too geographically specific (we
> might be missing other potential members).
> 
> In the end, geography didn't seem to bother anyone present, and we
> selected a name that was similar to our present Perl-Monger moniker. 
> After a couple of rounds of voting, we selected and registered:
> 
>  	thousand-oaks-perl.org
> 
> That site is now up, and I've asked PM.ORG to redirect webtraffic to
> it, but to retain our mailing list as is (at least for the time
> being.)
> 
> Andrew has already done some work redesigning our site and you can
> check it out at http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/newsite/  (He'll move
> it to be the default after he gets all the pieces the way he wants
> them.
> 
> The idea of a “mission” or “vision” didn't get resolved although
> during our name selection process we discarded names containing words
> like “rabid” and places like the 101 or Conejo Valley.  We also
> stayed away from cryptic abbreviations like “pm” or “1koaks” and
> terms that implied we might be newbies or trainers.
> 
> Not surprisingly, a high point was a random drawing (via perl, of
> course) for the two books that Marsee Henon of O'Reilly publishing
> had donated to us.  The good news is, I have two more books for next
> month!
> 
> We wrapped up at 8:00 but not before Aran discussed getting a Wiki
> setup on our new webserver.  I'm not clear on his vision of where
> that might take us, but I will work with him to get software
> installed to support this.  It looks pretty cool and he showed us
> some work he's been doing in support of Perl-powered geographic
> modules.
> 
> 
> 
> Homework:
> 
> Please think about (and submit) a reason or two why you are
> interested in this group and what you would like to get out of it. 
> Some of the reasons we discussed tonight were:
> 
> 	To learn more cool things about Perl
> 	To network with other Perl programmers in the area
> 	To meet famous Perl programmers, like Tim Bunce
> 
> 
> Thanks to those who were able to come out. 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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