Hi all,<br><br>I'm just letting you know that as of today, I've taken over as leader of Vancouver Perl Mongers. Thanks muchly to Chris Simmons for his leadership until now!<br><br>We've been rather bad at getting meetings going, both technical and social. 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 how they were able to maintain the velocity they had with their meetings and attendance. The answer was fairly obvious, but was good to hear. The key 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" of each month. Chris has said that Sophos would still be willing to host us and I'm hoping groups like Activestate and Gossamer Threads would be willing to help out if we were stuck from time to time. The aim will be to have technical talks at each of these meetings and a drink afterwards; if there 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 talk and I have a non-perl friend who would like to give a talk on something shiny. If anyone has anything cool, exciting or interesting that they would like to talk about, just let me know!<br>
<br>I'd like to hear feeback from folks on any questions or suggestions they have.<br><br>thanks!<br><br><br>-- <br>-Scott McWhirter- | -konobi-<br>Technology Consultant - Cloudtone Studios<br>