[albany-pm] Meeting?

[Will Coleda]

Meeting... OR IS IT!? MUAHAHAAHAHA!

It's my semi-annual attempt to setup a meeting, and you're invited! =-)

Anyone who wants to get together and talk about all things perl, let  
me know when a good time for you is. Just generic days and times.  
I'll start out by saying I'd prefer something during the week after  
5pm; =-) Feel free to mail me privately, and I'll try to come up with  
two days; we can try both, even. I know there are many other local  
user's groups we compete with for your time, please mention any  
specific ones in your email that you'd like to avoid a conflict with,  
I'll accommodate if I can.

We can meet at/near a school to help out with students. We can do  
coffee or stronger. (We've had our best luck at Professor Java's in  
the past, but I know that's not convenient for a lot of people.)  
Downtown can work, depending on the venue & the time...  Hell, one PM  
group meets at the zoo occasionally to check out the camels.

Possible topics:

-- If you're like me, a perl hacker who earns a living doing  
something else, we can talk about sanity-saving strategies (like  
trying to organize a perl mongers meeting!!), and whether it makes  
sense to introduce perl into the workplace or find your perlian  
satisfaction after hours.

-- Do you use perl at work regularly? Do you have coding standards,  
reviews? Do you write your tests in perl, even if your code is in  
another language?

-- Have you ever tried to use POE? (perhaps you can explain it to me,  
then.)

-- Interested in hacking on something perly? I have a module on CPAN  
with some pending feature requests, patches welcome. =-) [http:// 
search.cpan.org/~coke/]

I'm looking forward to having a meet & greet. Once we have a social  
or two under our belts, I'll plan a technical with an actual  
presentation on something based on feedback gathered during the social.

Other PMs have done this alternation with some success. I'd like to  
shoot for monthly meetings.

I'd also be happy to have just the occasional face to face, and have  
technical conversations on the list; As always, feel free to ask  
technical questions on the list, or let us know about some cool new  
perl thing you've discovered!

Regards.

--
Will "Coke" Coleda
will at coleda.com