Logo suggestions or submissions?

[Arthur Corliss]

On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Roxanne Reid-Bennett wrote:

> Ok, here's the question of the day.  How much time do you (or anybody
> else on this list) want to spend maintaining the site.  What do you want
> on it, and how much effort are you willing to put in to get it there or
> keep it there.

I'm willing to spend time each week maintaining/updating it, and we can easily
spread that responsibility out among a core group.  Obviously, Fred, being the
leader of our local group, and anyone he appoints as backups.

> To use one example ... AKLUG is *very* low profile that way.  It doesn't
> even have "useful" links off it. [not that *I* would ever complain.  Dee
> kept the pages and I didn't have to].  They're nice and "draw" traffic,
> but is that the purpose?
> 
> What do you want the page to say about the group? What's its purpose in
> existing?
> 	- To tell people we'er "here"
> 	- To help people find resources ("any" resources)
> 	- To help people find local resources
> 	- To tell people about the group's activities
> 	- To ...
> 
> Define it's purpose and a limit is set on structural form. [you don't
> "need" a fancy layout if all you say is "we exist" <g>]

When the mailing list first started taking off, I mentioned that there's
several things I'd like to see on a site, something that exceeds what AKLUG's
site offers.  Obviously, the contact info, meetings and announcements, etc.,
needs to be on there, but what about a threaded discussion group?  How about a
'useful' script archive?

Doing polls on various aspects of functions, coding contests, even Perl
Poetry.  I very much envision a site that would draw members to on a regular
basis.

> [Speaking of purposes... is there a specific overall purpose of Perl
> Mongers, and if so, what is it?  If not, then what is the purpose of
> *this* Perl Mongers group? [or if there is, is there an additional
> purpose/goal for this group] ]

Everything about the Perl Mongers can be found that the International ;-)
site, maintianed by brian de foy, who started all this, at http://www.pm.org.
Basically, it serves two purposes:

	1) Perl advocacy of sorts
	2) Local peer groups for the advancement of Perl knowledge

On the topic of the second, I can get space w/computers for us to play with
during meetings.  Those meetings would be great learning opportunities if we
could get people to give talks about certain aspects or modules that they are
intimate with.

> > Or, if you'd all rather take the low ;-) road, the folks at Gallant Tech have
> > offered to come up with something, but with the caveat that they get to put
> > the site design in their portfolio.
> 
> I'm an ok technical graphical editor, but I've got all the creative
> talent for graphics of .. well we'll not go there.  I suggest either
> "the low road" or just a "cool" lettered logo (much like the AKLUG of
> years 1-2.5).  Either will get you "up" - neither will cost you a lot of
> time (or money).  

Well, let's see if people are interested in a site with the goals I'm
interested in, and take it from there.  :-)

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