[Thousand-oaks-pm] Recap of last night's perlmongers meeting

[Daniel Sherer]

Notes on a Perl Monger's meeting, June 8, 2005.  


Just four members attending tonight, Paul, Andrew, Gary and Daniel.

Paul passed along the unhappy news that Terrence is no longer with
the group.  He's taking another direction and will certainly be
missed.  

Unlike all the recent gatherings, which presented modules,
applications or nifty tricks, this meeting focused on developing our
group and spreading out the tasks of administering it.  Here are some
ideas that we kicked around...

 - More advanced meeting reminders.
 - More notice about topics
 - Less geographically specific name (perhaps Conejo-valley.pm?)
 - Less frequent meetings
 - Move website to a more maintainable server
 - Add a message board to communicate amongst members


Andrew offered to help out with the website, as soon as we get it
onto another server.

Daniel offered to investigate moving the server.  But we decided to
keep the existing name.  It appears that PM.Org will point it to our
server.

We ended with a discussion of how Andrew implemented a Perl-driven
Flash site to display dealers located near a user-selected zip code. 
The integration of Perl/database on the back-end with Flash in the
browser was surprising and very slick.

Hope to see you next month!


		
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