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

[B. Estrade]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Joey Kelly started a PHP group
a while back - pre-Kat. .. Joey?

Reducing the number of PM meetings or dissolving the group completely
is a far different path than converting a PM group into a "general web
dev" group, which for all intensive purposes, makes it no longer a PM
group.

Perhaps the PM group can continue to exist as a web presence with
meetings every 3 months or so while those interested can form a
separate "generic web dev" group from the subset of NOPM'ers that are
interested in such.  If the PM meetings were held quarterly and on a
weekend (say Sundays around noon), I'd probably be able to drive in
from BR to attend.  I've also offered before to talk about things like
Perl 6/Parrot and the magic behind Perl's regexes.

This is the most activity the list has seen in a very long while, and
a discussion like this is well over due.  It was unfortunate that I
didn't make any PM meetings while I was still in NO, but I still feel
like I am a part of NOPM nonetheless, and I have been looking for a
chance to continue/increase my involvement while being in BR.

On this flip side, this might be a good reason to seriously look at
starting a BR/LSU PM group based at LSU since I work and go to school
there...plus I know a lot of people who use Perl for non-web dev
stuff...not that I am against web dev - that is how I got started with
programming 10 years ago and how I continue to pay some of my bills
today.

I've said all I am going to, so I'll just sit back and see what you
guys end up deciding.

Sincerely,
Brett

On 11/27/06, Alex Walker <alex at houseofwalker.net> wrote:
> I'm checking in a little late here, but I'd like to second Dave's
> suggestions. The meetings I've been to recently (which, admittedly,
> have been few and far between) have been pretty free-wheeling affairs
> with a lot of discussion of things other than Perl. Personally, my own
> work has involved a lot more PHP, JSP, and Java Server Faces, so it
> would be great to have something that was a bit more open to that.
> Heck, I might even have some things to present a bit more formally to
> the group.
>
> As for the meeting time, let's go ahead and give that up. I'd still
> like to keep it at Fair Grinds on another night if we can. I've had a
> class that meets on Thursday nights this semester so I haven't been to
> a meeting for a while, but I do have every intension of showing up a
> bit more regularly after the new year.
>
> As to the name...  "NOLA Coders" sounds pretty good. I'd also be open
> to "NOLA Web Programmers" or "NOLA People Who Were Picked Last in Gym
> Class and Who Now Spend Too Much Time in Front of a Computer".
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Dave Cash wrote:
>
> > Oops!  Meant to send this to this to the list as well as to Erin...
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Dave Cash <fieldsofgarlic at gmail.com>
> > Date: Nov 26, 2006 12:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Neworleans-pm] New Orleans Perl Mongers: Our Future
> > To: Erin Laine <erin at thelaines.org>
> >
> >
> > On 11/25/06, Erin Laine <erin at thelaines.org> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > It sounds like we're building a consensus of giving up the slot.
> > Unless I hear strong objections in the next few days, I'll let Robert
> > and Elizabeth know we're releasing our hold on the slot.
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> > I've thought about this too.  I like this idea, though I'd rather gear
> > it towards web programmers than web developers.  Maybe it's the same
> > thing, maybe it's just semantics.
> >
> > So what would we be called?  NOLAcoders?  When would we meet?
> >
> > Dave
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