APM: December Meeting?

[Montgomery Conner]

Either the Draught House or Mangia Guadalupe fit the
not-to-far-West-or-North criteria. Either would be fine.


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:47 AM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> The libraries are usually well booked up, they are a well known
> community resource. Plus they tend to start short staffing
> this time of year due to vacation and as a result a lot of the
> secondary services get shut down until Jan.
>
> LOPSA has similar issues and right now we are meeting at the
> Mangia Pizza at 3016 Guadalupe. An alternative we have
> used is the Draught House on Medical Parkway (just over from
> HEB at 38th). You'll want to give Mangia a call but the Draught
> House we just show up and stake a table.
>
> Seasons best wishes.
>
> ---- Montgomery Conner <montgomery.conner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > @Mark
> >
> > Although they can be a bit dour, back when I was a kid they had these
> > conveniently located public institutions called 'libraries' that often
> > offered meeting rooms and services. ;-)
> > http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/map.htm.
> >
> > There's also a pretty extensive system of community centers in Austin
> > (google didn't locate one in the north central Austin area, but I'm sure
> one
> > exists) that are chartered with "community development" in the broadest
> > sense.
> >
> > These institutions may also offer projector services, which seems to have
> > been problematic in the past.
> >
> > ###################################
> >
> > In terms of the topic of the meeting, aren't we really concerned first
> and
> > foremost with creating *momentum* locally in order to help promote the
> > larger Perl community globally. Many mongers groups take-on projects as a
> > group to help build the local community and train the next generation of
> > Perl gurus and monks. Some groups bring in great speakers (Patrick
> Michaud,
> > the current Perl6 compiler pumpking lives in Dallas, and has some
> fantastic
> > presentations on the new compiler toolkit and syntax.) And there are
> > certainly other tactics to, rather than prostheletise Perl's virtues,
> "show
> > by example" that Perl is not only still relevant, but vital... and really
> > really cool. ;-)
> >
> > Shouldn't the real suggestion here be that we brainstorm to find out what
> > would engage current local Perl users, including many members of this
> list,
> > over the long term? Converts are great and all, but is there even a
> strong
> > base of users to do that work here in Austin?
> >
> > I was speaking with Josh McAddams at OSCON this past spring and he
> mentioned
> > that Jeremy Fluhman is interested in organizing and helping to host
> YAPC::NA
> > in Austin at some point in the future (he helped set up YAPC::NA in
> Houston
> > and the Open Source conference in San Angelo last year, but thinks that
> > Austin would probably be more fun for out of towners). Clearly a more
> active
> > mongers organization is needed before such a step could be taken... but
> what
> > better way to publicize Perl's relevance?
> >
> > I agree that spending energy shouting into the echo chamber is futile. I
> > hope that isn't what anyone is suggesting. I think ideally we're not
> really
> > fighting a meme so much as providing services, examples,  and information
> > that combat ignorance, right?
> >
> >
> > --Montgomery
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Mark Lehmann <mark at marklehmann.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Sure.  I need some recommendations of free meeting places more central.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Montgomery Conner <
> > > montgomery.conner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is there any chance the meeting can be held somewhat centrally? i.e.
> no
> > >> further north than 2222 and no further west than Mopac.
> > >>
> > >> It would really, help at least in the case of my own attendance...
>  :-)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!
> > >> Montgomery
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Keith Howanitz <howanitz at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> 17th sounds good to me.
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> -Keith
> > >>> howanitz at gmail.com
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> > >
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> > >
>
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