Mark your diary: Wed 3-May-2000

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <416EBC605EBED111A31A08002B9F4B361E92D1 at scarab.lq.web.co.nz>, Grant McLean writes:
>The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be on Wednesday
>the 3rd of May.  Location and speakers to be confirmed closer to
>the date.  If anyone would like to present, speak up and we'll 
>book you a spot.

My offer to talk on one or other of the topics I mentioned earlier
(state machines/code generation, or parsing SGML/XML) still stands, but
I wouldn't want anyone else to feel they couldn't talk because I was
going to :-)

>I thought the 'Group Therapy' session worked pretty well and would
>vote for it to be a regular part of the meetings.  What do other
>people think?

I think it's useful for people to be able to ask questions and get an
answer from the group; and useful for people to be able to comment on
things that they've found useful that they think other people should
know.  But I wouldn't want to see it being compulsory for everyone to
have a question or a tip every month (because I for one would rapidly
run out of interesting tips).

So perhaps something like that on a less formal basis?  Perhaps even
with a "hat" to drop questions/tip-snippets into, but without the
spanish inquisition ("Have you put your...?").

Ewen