[Neworleans-pm] New Orleans Perl Mongers: Our Future

[Erin Laine]

I say that we should give away the time slot at Fair Grinds.  Weak prior 
attendance shows that interest is not very strong at this time or 
location. I know I usually can't make it.

I'm still very interested in Perl along with other popular, free 
programming languages for web apps.  Maybe some kind of more general web 
developers group would be of more interest?

Erin

Dave Cash wrote:
> Perl Mongers of New Orleans,
>
> Meeting attendance has been very low lately, as has been mailing list traffic.
>
> I, for one, am not using Perl as much as I used to.  Thus, my interest
> and enthusiasm for Perl has waned somewhat.  I still think there are
> times when it's the best tool for the job, but I'm widening my toolkit
> a lot.
>
> What do the rest of you say?  Are people still interested in Perl?
> Are people still interested in meeting monthly to talk about Perl?
>
> One reason I bring this up now is that Fair Grinds, which has
> generously made their upstairs space available to us, has another
> group that would like to meet at 7:00 every Thursday evening.  We are
> the one group that keeps then from doing that, since we have 5:30 to
> 8:00 blocked out for the second Thursday every month.  Robert feels we
> have first dibs on the time slot and wants us to keep it if we still
> want it.  But if we're not really going to use it, I propose that we
> either:
>
>   1) change our meeting day and time
>   2) change our meeting location
>   3) stop meeting as regularly, at least until interest in Perl returns
>
> Either way, I propose we release our hold on the 7:00 - 8:00 third
> Thursday at Fair Grinds.  Robert and Elizabeth have been very good to
> us and I would like to help them out.  But I believe we should make
> the decision as a group.
>
> Let me say that if people became interested again and we could get at
> least five people to come every month, I'd be into it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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