Me too! Scott++<br><br>I'd like to get together for more informal hacking nights, where we could write code and plot against the ruby and python hackers. :)<br><br>Luke<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Phil Whelan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil123@gmail.com">phil123@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Congratulations Scott! I'm looking forward to the regular meetings.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Phil<br>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Scott McWhirter<br>
<scott+<a href="http://vancouver.pm" target="_blank">vancouver.pm</a>@<a href="http://konobi.co.uk" target="_blank">konobi.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I'm just letting you know that as of today, I've taken over as leader of<br>
> Vancouver Perl Mongers. Thanks muchly to Chris Simmons for his leadership<br>
> until now!<br>
><br>
> We've been rather bad at getting meetings going, both technical and social.<br>
> I'm hoping to improve upon this.<br>
><br>
> When I was down at PDX.pm a while back, I asked a bunch of questions about<br>
> how they were able to maintain the velocity they had with their meetings and<br>
> attendance. The answer was fairly obvious, but was good to hear. The key<br>
> seems to be to make it regular and have a meeting no matter what.<br>
><br>
> So from now on, Vancouver.pm meetings will be held on the "Second Thursday"<br>
> of each month. Chris has said that Sophos would still be willing to host us<br>
> and I'm hoping groups like Activestate and Gossamer Threads would be willing<br>
> to help out if we were stuck from time to time. The aim will be to have<br>
> technical talks at each of these meetings and a drink afterwards; if there<br>
> are no technical talks, we'll have have a social meeting.<br>
><br>
> For Feburary I have a talk that I want to give, Luke Closs wants to give a<br>
> talk and I have a non-perl friend who would like to give a talk on something<br>
> shiny. If anyone has anything cool, exciting or interesting that they would<br>
> like to talk about, just let me know!<br>
><br>
> I'd like to hear feeback from folks on any questions or suggestions they<br>
> have.<br>
><br>
> thanks!<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi-<br>
> Technology Consultant - Cloudtone Studios<br>
><br>
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