APM: Activity?

[jameschoate at austin.rr.com]

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
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> >>
> >> 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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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >

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