APM: Activity?

Tue Jul 10 17:41:28 PDT 2012

Thanks, Lynn, much appreciated!  At least it's Python and not Ruby ( /me
says while eyeballing some of the other APMers [in good fun] ) ;-)

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Lynn Bender <linearb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> I'd like to let you guys know that I've been following the thread,
> and will be happy to promote you with big fanfare when you're ready.
>
> Because of the NLP/Machine Learning/Data stuff I do, I'm finding it
> necessary to make Python my primary language, but I still have a tremendous
> affection for perl. It and Bash were the first two languages I learned.
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> -Lynn Bender
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> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Um, don't you also need to set some sort of regular schedule since it's
>> not likely there will be somebody on all the time?
>>
>> ---- Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In case anyone is interested  -  irc.perl.org   #austin.pm
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > In case it affects the decision for the soon-to-be upcoming date of
>> the
>> > > next meeting - http://geekaustin.org/guide-austin-tech-meetups.  The
>> 4th
>> > > Wednesday doesn't have anything going on if anyone is up for even
>> just an
>> > > Austin PM Social Hour (perl -e "print qq{wink } x 2;")
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Now that I live in Austin, I'm definitely up for getting back into
>> the
>> > >> Perl community.  I'll help in any way I can for any movement to get
>> monthly
>> > >> meeting going again.  Do we have a current list of potential meeting
>> > >> venues?  Any potential pizza sponsors? (Pizza seems to be the de
>> facto
>> > >> standard on groups, but any "food/drink" sponsor would be welcomed,
>> I'm
>> > >> sure).
>> > >>
>> > >> Cheers,
>> > >> Jeremy
>> > >> --
>> > >>
>> > >> Jeremy Fluhmann
>> > >> *http://twitter.com/jfluhmann*
>> > >> *http://identi.ca/jfluhmann
>> > >> http://jfluhmann.edublogs.org
>> > >> Texas Open Source Project - http://texos.org
>> > >> Texas Linux Fest - http://www.texaslinuxfest.org*
>> > >>
>> > >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <
>> pmichaud at pobox.com>wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Mark Lehmann wrote:
>> > >>> > It takes a lot of effort to coordinate events.  I'd be happy if
>> someone
>> > >>> > else wanted to coordinate.
>> > >>> > [...]
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I don't know if this will help here, but one of the user groups
>> > >>> I frequently attend started having monthly "meeting managers".
>> > >>> We got the idea from Perl's new release manager process, which
>> > >>> in turn got it from Parrot.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> In Perl/Parrot, each monthly release has a separate "release
>> manager"
>> > >>> that is responsible for the tasks associated with that month's
>> release.
>> > >>> The procedure is all well documented, so someone just volunteers for
>> > >>> a month, follows the steps, and a release comes out.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> In the user group scenario, each regularly scheduled meeting has
>> > >>> someone volunteer to be that meeting's "coordinator" (or whatever
>> > >>> you wish to call it).  That person is responsible for arranging a
>> > >>> speaker or event, making the meeting announcements, etc. for the
>> > >>> given month.  The meeting manager can *be* the speaker, but isn't
>> > >>> required to be.  And of course the manager can delegate out as
>> > >>> desired/necessary.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> The whole point is that the work of setting up a meeting (or
>> release)
>> > >>> doesn't fall to the same person month after month after month to
>> > >>> the point that he/she burns out or runs out of ideas.  Also,
>> > >>> having more managers brings more ideas and improvements into the
>> > >>> process.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> It's worked reasonably well at the UG that I attend; perhaps
>> > >>> it can work for you as well.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Lastly, I'd be happy to come down to Austin sometime and give a
>> > >>> presentation.  :-)
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Hope this helps,
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Pm
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>> > >>> Austin at pm.org
>> > >>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin
>> > >>>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
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