[AnnArbor.pm] AnnArbor-pm Digest, Vol 18, Issue 3

Dave Mueller dave at perljedi.com
Sun Oct 23 11:48:07 PDT 2011


I would also be interested in getting some meetings going.  While
presentations and agenda's are good, I would also have interest in attending
just social meetings.

Another thought that occured to me would be to have a meeting with some time
for quick "lightning talk" kind of presentations.  It seems putting it in
that format could ease people nervous about giving a "presentation" into it,
and also allow for more informed selections on what topics would have the
most interest for a presentation.

Off the top of my head this morning I am not coming up with anything for
myself to give such a talk on, but I would certainly be willing to do one.
 I'll try over the course of the week to think of something I could talk for
a few minutes on.

   -Dave Mueller
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>   1. Re: [A2PM] Interest in meetings? (Bryan Smith)
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>   3. Re: [A2PM] Interest in meetings? (Bryan Smith)
>   4. Re: [A2PM] Interest in meetings? (David Hand)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:42:50 -0400
> From: Bryan Smith <besmit at umich.edu>
> To: annarbor-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [AnnArbor.pm] [A2PM] Interest in meetings?
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> I've received some private responses, so there is some interest.
>
> Based on how we've organized meetings in the past, someone needs to
> volunteer to present, or we need to start a public discussion (on the list)
> about an alternative format for the meetings. (In the past,  meetings =
> presentations.)
>
> Do we want to meetings to be less formal? (I.e., show up without an
> agenda?)
>
> Please send out your ideas to the list.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bryan Smith <besmit at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> > I've received an email asking about the group, and was wondering whether
> > there is any interest in starting meetings up again. Particularly, is
> anyone
> > interested in presenting anything?
> >
> > Bryan
> >
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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:58:54 -0400
> From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> To: annarbor-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [AnnArbor.pm] [A2PM] Interest in meetings?
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> The reason you're getting private replies are because the mailing list
> is configured to set reply-to to the original sender, not back to the
> list.
>
> I'm way out here by Grand Rapids, so I'm not likely to make it to A2PM
> meetings, but I can offer some insight to meeting format transitions.
>
> GRLUG once used a meeting == presentation format. It led to us having
> meetings rarely; while we wanted to meet up, we didn't have any solid
> presentation ideas. Some meeting plans would fizzle from a lack of
> volunteers to speak.
>
> Getting close to two years ago, we switched over to a weekly ad-hoc
> arrangement. Someone (who I'll call the anchor) would go to some place
> with wifi and {food and/or drink} and would be there for a solid
> window of time. If anyone else wanted to show up, they'd know there'd
> at least be the anchor there. Weekly attendance ranged from just me to
> ten or twenty people. No set topic, just chatting about what we wanted
> to and what we had in common.
>
> No one location and time works for everyone, but for those who can
> show up when/where someone decided to anchor, it's pretty fun. Earlier
> this year, I stopped anchoring (I'd moved it to what turned out to be
> a very bad spot, and attendance plummeted), someone else took it up,
> moved it from Saturdays to Wednesday evenings, and it's been going
> strong again. We've been seeing regular attendance from 10 to 20
> people.
>
> You'd have to figure out what works best for you guys, but this has
> been working out pretty nicely for us. It becomes a social atmosphere
> of technically-inclined people who listen to who they want to listen
> to, talk about what they want to talk about, and have a coffee or beer
> together. (Put that way, it sounds kinda like barcamp, but it's much
> smaller, and there are no schedules.)
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Bryan Smith <besmit at umich.edu> wrote:
> > I've received some private responses, so there is some interest.
> > Based on how we've organized meetings in the past, someone needs to
> > volunteer to present, or we need to start a public discussion (on the
> list)
> > about an alternative format for the meetings. (In the past, ?meetings =
> > presentations.)
> > Do we want to meetings to be less formal? (I.e., show up without an
> > agenda?)
> > Please send out your ideas to the list.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bryan Smith <besmit at umich.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've received an email asking about the group, and was wondering whether
> >> there is any interest in starting meetings up again. Particularly, is
> anyone
> >> interested in presenting anything?
> >> Bryan
> >
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> :wq
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:29:24 -0400
> From: Bryan Smith <besmit at umich.edu>
> To: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> Cc: annarbor-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [AnnArbor.pm] [A2PM] Interest in meetings?
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> >
> > The reason you're getting private replies are because the mailing list
> > is configured to set reply-to to the original sender, not back to the
> > list.
>
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> Getting close to two years ago, we switched over to a weekly ad-hoc
> > arrangement. Someone (who I'll call the anchor) would go to some place
> > with wifi and {food and/or drink} and would be there for a solid
> > window of time. If anyone else wanted to show up, they'd know there'd
> > at least be the anchor there.
>
>
> This is similar to an idea one person sent me, with the addition of an
> anchor. I would rather see the group go a lower-maintenance route like
> this,
> and we'd still have the flexibility to have more formal meetings if someone
> had a topic.
>
>
> Bryan
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The reason you're getting private replies are because the mailing list
> > is configured to set reply-to to the original sender, not back to the
> > list.
> >
> > I'm way out here by Grand Rapids, so I'm not likely to make it to A2PM
> > meetings, but I can offer some insight to meeting format transitions.
> >
> > GRLUG once used a meeting == presentation format. It led to us having
> > meetings rarely; while we wanted to meet up, we didn't have any solid
> > presentation ideas. Some meeting plans would fizzle from a lack of
> > volunteers to speak.
> >
> > Getting close to two years ago, we switched over to a weekly ad-hoc
> > arrangement. Someone (who I'll call the anchor) would go to some place
> > with wifi and {food and/or drink} and would be there for a solid
> > window of time. If anyone else wanted to show up, they'd know there'd
> > at least be the anchor there. Weekly attendance ranged from just me to
> > ten or twenty people. No set topic, just chatting about what we wanted
> > to and what we had in common.
> >
> > No one location and time works for everyone, but for those who can
> > show up when/where someone decided to anchor, it's pretty fun. Earlier
> > this year, I stopped anchoring (I'd moved it to what turned out to be
> > a very bad spot, and attendance plummeted), someone else took it up,
> > moved it from Saturdays to Wednesday evenings, and it's been going
> > strong again. We've been seeing regular attendance from 10 to 20
> > people.
> >
> > You'd have to figure out what works best for you guys, but this has
> > been working out pretty nicely for us. It becomes a social atmosphere
> > of technically-inclined people who listen to who they want to listen
> > to, talk about what they want to talk about, and have a coffee or beer
> > together. (Put that way, it sounds kinda like barcamp, but it's much
> > smaller, and there are no schedules.)
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Bryan Smith <besmit at umich.edu> wrote:
> > > I've received some private responses, so there is some interest.
> > > Based on how we've organized meetings in the past, someone needs to
> > > volunteer to present, or we need to start a public discussion (on the
> > list)
> > > about an alternative format for the meetings. (In the past,  meetings =
> > > presentations.)
> > > Do we want to meetings to be less formal? (I.e., show up without an
> > > agenda?)
> > > Please send out your ideas to the list.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bryan
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bryan Smith <besmit at umich.edu> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I've received an email asking about the group, and was wondering
> whether
> > >> there is any interest in starting meetings up again. Particularly, is
> > anyone
> > >> interested in presenting anything?
> > >> Bryan
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:06:30 -0400
> From: David Hand <cogent at slashdot.org>
> To: annarbor-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [AnnArbor.pm] [A2PM] Interest in meetings?
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> I agree that we'd do well to have social meetings in addition to
> technical meetings.  There are many different types of Perl Mongers
> groups:  At one extreme, the Seattle Perl Mongers (now apparently
> called the Seattle Perl Users Group) describes itself as an
> "Educational Cooperative".  At the other extreme, the New York Perl
> Mongers discourages much Perl discussion on its mailing list and
> mostly just meets in a bar near NYU.  I've learned a hell of a lot of
> Perl over beers at the Peculier Pub.  :-)
>
> Anyway, I'd certainly attend a social meeting, and so would a couple
> of my co-workers at Slashdot.  That said, I'd also attend a technical
> meeting.  (I'd also like to get back in the habit of presenting.)
>
> Michael's "anchor" idea seems to be a good one, especially in
> combination with some sort of semi-regular technical meeting.  Or
> maybe it'd be sufficient if there were a regular venue at which we
> could host technical meetings, so that the "anchor" wouldn't have to
> provide one of his own?
>
> --
> David 'cogent' Hand
> Software Engineer
> Slashdot.org
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