LPM: next month

[Janine]

Ditto.  I went through the same thing with KIPCUG (Kentucky-Indiana PC Users Group) when I started the Louisville Perl Mongers.
Even though they offer meeting rooms and A/V equipment, the whole dues and membership thing bothered me.

Janine


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lexington-pm-list at pm.org
> [mailto:owner-lexington-pm-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of sungo at qx.net
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 10:53 AM
> To: lexington-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: Re: LPM: next month
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>
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Paul Stackhouse wrote:
>
> > Would you all consider joining with a larger organization of computer
> > users?  The Central Kentucky Computer Society leases office space
> > including 2 labs and a meeting room (for 30 people) with projector.
> > They offer a monthly newsletter, around seven hundred members, sponsors
> > regional events, etc.
>
> i'd like to keep perlmongers a separate entity.
>
> > The caveat would be that regular meeting attenders would be asked to
> > become members (not a hard sell) at $29/year. Seven current members
> > would petition for a meeting night and someone would have to agree to be
> > the (gasp!) leader the group.  Here is a calendar of current meetings.
>
> i'm here to learn about perl (and perl only thank you) and geek a bit.
> i'm not paying dues for that privilege.  i very much enjoy the get together
> hang out eat food and talk code approach. in other words, i very much
> enjoy perlmongers quite the way it is even if we are a bit disorganized
> some of the time.
>
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