APM: Meeting Report

[Taylor Carpenter]

On 07/27/12 at 07:32am, jameschoate at austin.rr.com wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a project specific meetup for people already working on some
project.

An alternative would be a open hack group where a bunch of different projects
are going on at any given time and anyone can help or chat about what
ever was interesting to them -- including just working by themselves and
requesting feedback when desired.

> 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.

Free pizza is new and not required.  If meetups always were about a
sales pitch then most would fail.

Also a single talk for an hour+ is usually overkill unless there is
interactive learning of some type... that might be coding, but it could
easily be Q&A during the talk (vs after).  The topic can be pitched to
the group on the mailing list or at the end of a meeting to see the
interest level and the talk should be adjusted accordingly.

Leaning towards more talks per meeting means each talk gets to the point
faster w/o the fluff.

In any case I suggest a vote on where this PM group should take the
meetings.  Here is a survey I created based on the current discussion
thread:

  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3KQPR8G

Fill it in and I'll pass all the results on or create a new one.  In any
case a vote should be taken so we can move on.