[LA.pm] dinner thursday 11/20

[Terrence Brannon]

I had to wipe my disk due to a virus, so I might have missed something.

[1] Robert solicited proposals for a technical talk and I responded. 
What has become of this offer. There was some initial resistance by Ask 
on the grounds of difficulty finding a presentation forum. To this 
resistance two solutions were offered (1) a socio-technical talk by me 
and (2) a room at rent.com

As far as I know, neither my talk nor the alternatives were rejected and 
it certainly was not put to public vote, which brings me to my second issue.

[2] Is LA.pm a democratic organization? Do the members have any 
power/input into what happens where? As far as I can tell from this 
email, there was no process of discussion or generation of a general 
consensus on what happened when.

[3] I have prepared the slides to my talk and am willing to rent a car 
if necessary to present them. Here are the completed slides:

          
http://www.urth.org/~metaperl/domains/metaperl.com/talks/2003/november/TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.html

 And regarding sending things to bdfoy, what would be more gratifying 
than to see his module Tie::Cycle being put to good use and publicly 
presented?

[4] I re-iterate my offer to give a socio-technical talk. That is, if 
you are going to meet in Silverlake, I can bring printouts of the slides 
based on the amount of reservations you receive and talk at the dinner 
table.


Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Robert and I got hungry, so hereby we announce a LA.pm dinner.
>
> The plan is to go to Caffe Capri[1] in Silverlake on Thursday the 20th 
> (that's in a ~week) and stuff us silly with food.   Email me or Robert 
> if you are coming so we can make reservations and be sure to let you 
> know if we find out that the place isn't open that day or whatever 
> (yes, that has happened before :-) )
>
>
>  - ask
>
>  [1] http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/52302/
>       http://losangeles.citysearch.com/review/52302/
>