APM: Meeting Report

[John_Warner at Dell.com]

I'm totally down with this even if it means doing some work for free as I don't get much opportunity to do programming in my current job role.  From my viewpoint, this would be like an unpaid internship and I would get to learn from people outside of my company.  Cross pollination is always a good thing IMO.

A fun idea would be to hold a programming contest a la the annual ACM programming contests held at various college campuses every year.


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From: Austin [mailto:austin-bounces+john_warner=dell.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of jameschoate at austin.rr.com
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 7:33 AM
To: Taylor Carpenter; austin at pm.org
Subject: Re: APM: Meeting Report

I'm not speaking to talks or presentations that fit nicely into an hour venue so people can sit around and eat pizza. The utility for that is really not that high.

I'm talking about a long term effort to have a sequence of projects or events that promote the use of perl by actually doing perl. I realize for some that's a problem due to contractual limitations (ala IBM) but there has to be a better way to promote perl than free pizza and listening to somebodies sales pitch once a month. To be honest, booooring. Hands-on real world, and by real world I mean more than just working on some commercial project. I also recognize that the Pareto Principle will be involved with a vengeance.

---- Taylor Carpenter <taylor at codecafe.com> wrote: 
> 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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