<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 27, 2020, at 6:39 AM, Sawyer X via yapc <<a href="mailto:yapc@pm.org" class="">yapc@pm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 7:35 PM James E Keenan via yapc <<a href="mailto:yapc@pm.org" class="">yapc@pm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">[...]<br class="">Now, I'm not proposing one Zoom thingee with 20, 30 or more participants<br class="">like a Real Arrivals Dinner. I'm proposing a set of Zoom (or other<br class="">technology) meetings of smaller numbers -- dinner party-size, perhaps --<br class="">that could go on somewhat simultaneously and that would enable people to<br class="">drop-in and chat. The various elements of this set could be organized<br class="">along thematic lines: cuisine; choice of beer; native language. Or<br class="">they could be completely free and use global variables.<br class=""><br class="">Such meetings would take place on the evening of Tuesday, June 23 --<br class="">where the value of "evening" is that of the person who actually does the<br class="">work of getting the online meeting going. If you're hosting such a<br class="">dinner, you can choose how many people may be in attendance at any one<br class="">time. Perhaps you can host more than one seating.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I love this idea. I want to join, but it will likely be very late. The<br class="">end of the conference (6 PM EDT) is 1 AM in my timezone. I'm happy to<br class="">have an arrival breakfast. :)<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This will be open on the 23rd at 7pm EDT: <a href="https://sched.co/ckXj" class="">https://sched.co/ckXj</a></div><div>This will be open prior to the opening talks: <a href="https://sched.co/cPId" class="">https://sched.co/cPId</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Both will require a password that will only be given out to eventbrite attendees. I'll see you guys there!</div><div><br class=""></div><div>As Jim suggested, this conference is supposed to be community lead. If you guys want to do an event outside of that, I encourage you to use the wiki or the slack invite you were given to collaborate with other attendees. <a href="https://github.com/perlconference/tpc-2020-cloud/wiki" class="">https://github.com/perlconference/tpc-2020-cloud/wiki</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Cheers,<br class=""><div class="">Todd</div></body></html>