how many members in group?

[Chris Benson]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the comments.  Do you mind if I forward it to the list for
discussion?

There are ~6 people on the list ... a couple I've never heard from and
one back in London ... so I'm also wondering how to drum up a bit more
interested in these post-.com days.

I've written Perl courses for CAP Gemini and IBM (and still have access to
some of the training material) so could do this if we can find a venue.
Because of the difficulty of physical meetings, I was wondering about
trying to make the list more of resource ...  maybe I'll start by trying
out something I was thinking about for work: 5-minute sessions on 'How
to X with Perl' (for various values of X :-).

Hmmm. I'll sleep on it.  One thought that occurs straight away is
needing a purpose to learn: what could you use Perl for?

Best wishes

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 10:21:52PM +0100, jimf wrote:
> Your recent mail got me to thinking about the lack of time I have to enjoy 
> learning. I still class myself as a total novice in the perl programming 
> field and was wondering how many group members are in the same genre. I am 
> sure that if the novices all got together and agreed to pay a fee, say for 
> arguments sake £20 x 10 novices that would be £200 to 'hire' a more 
> experienced programmer from our group to run a small maybe 2 hour session 
> once a month somewhere local. It would definately benefit those of us who 
> need a more structured learning environment. It would introduce members of 
> the group to each other, plus provide a bit of financial support to talented 
> but perhaps 'resting' experts.. Dunno what do you think? I'm game, who else 
> could be?
> 
> regards,
> 
> jimf at graybox.co.uk
> 

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Chris Benson