APM: Meeting Report

[Taylor Carpenter]

A project/coding-interactive focused meetup group is an interesting idea.

I suggest having a spin-off meeting that allows people who are interested
in the project to attend those meetings.   This could be a single on-going
project, or a hack meetup to work on several projects of interest....

For the actual PM meetup itself, IMO, it should keep a broad focus in
general -- even if we have talks about a specific topic.   Otherwise the
group will alienate everyone who is not interested in the current topic.
Personally I prefer 2 or 3 talks at a meeting that are short, so that
everyone has a chance of at least one topic being presented of interest.
Giving some time for people to ask questions, bring up problems they are
working on, and chat in general is also good.

Zombies and Perl as well as well as problems solved with Perl for the
Trello Bot project are examples of short talks I would be happy to see at
future PM meetings.

BTW, adding an additional hour at the end of the current PM meeting to
allow people to hang out and hack would be fine as well.  Anyone
uninterested in the project can leave after the meeting.
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