Group Activity Idea(s)

Matt Heusser mattandap at allegan.net
Mon Aug 30 08:26:25 CDT 1999


Grand Rapids Perl Mongers Meeting Minutes - 1997 August 27>Steve Johnson
proposed some kind of group activity
>(need more discussion on the email list).

Here's the plan:

1) We get a general idea of what we're going to do,
2) Put it on next month's agenda for discussion.
3) Discuss it next month, then again in Oct, Nov,
     and December.
4) Then, assuming we don't have mass hysteria
and black-outs due to Y2K, in January or Feb. we
do the group activity, led by Mr. Johnson.

As for "What are we going to do?"  I believe the
original idea was some sort of team-building exercise
where we break the .pm's down into groups and
attempt to solve a problem put forth by either Steve
or a guest judge.  (In college, we had similar
projects, with a bank of 10 questions of varying
point values, with a certain amount of time to
solve them.)

On the flip side:  We could sponsor a comepetition
of various high schools, and have it at a local
college.  Of course, neither many high scools
nor many colleges code in perl, but the idea is to
get them to start ... (or allow them to code in
whatever language they want ... the smart ones
will choose perl anyway ;-)

I covet your contributions ....



Matt H.
"For what profit is it to a man,
if he gains the whole world,
and loses his own soul?"
      - Matthew 16:26
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