[LA.pm] Fwd: hollywood.pm.org

[Duong Vu]

That one guy from Santa Monica is me.  The very same guy
who said he would like to go to more LA PM meetings if only
if it's not out of the way.  I find it easier to attend TO's PM
meetings because it's easier to get to even though it's further
away.  It's not about distance.

It's about if I can get there on time without leaving work too
early and if I can get home at a reasonable time so I can
have some family time.

I would also argue that if there are more PM groups, move
people will go to meetings for the very same reason and this
can work because we have a lot perl developers in Los
Angeles relative to other cities.  And more of us being active
in the local Perl community can only benefit us all.

Duong

On 2/2/06, Terrence Brannon <metaperl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Kevin Scaldeferri <kevin+lapm at scaldeferri.com> wrote:
>
> > Personally, I find it a little mindboggling to see one person who works
> > in WeHo and can't make it to SM, and another basically vice-versa.  I
> > mean, that's what, 5 or 6 miles?
>
> it's 11 miles: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=West+Hollywood,+CA&daddr=Santa+Monica,+CA&ll=34.05262,-118.42596&spn=0.189444,0.192261
>
> >  Hardly "the entire length of the
> > city".
> >
>
> yeah, but in LA during the week, that is unpredictably grueling.
> Unlike Chicago and NYC where you can get anywhere in predictable times
> because of the extensive and punctual train system, in LA, you have to
> climb into a car and pray.
>
>
> > Do folks realize that people used to come from *Irvine* to attend LAJUG
> > meetings in Pasadena?
>
> Doug Wilson came from Laguna Beach to Burbank for the bdfoy meeting!
>
> >
> > It starts to sound like the problem is really that people aren't all
> > that interested in having a group (or that their interest isn't being
> > engaged),
>
> yes, when Tim Bunce came to Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers, people were
> coming out of the woodworks. And one guy did in fact come from Santa
> Monica for the meeting.