[Neworleans-pm] developer group ideas

[Andy Lester]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Joel Wietelmann wrote:

> 1. Go ahead with small, independently organized, interest-specific dev
> groups.  You could keep up your Perl group, we can get our PHP group
> moving, etc.

Allow me to chime in here and say that the #1 thing that any grouop  
needs is content.  In all this discussion of NOLA.pm (and admittedly  
I've been skimming) there's been talk of the group as an entity, but  
not of what it provides its members.

The answer is pretty simple: If you want people to come to your group  
meetings, you have to have something that is worth going for.  Most  
people aren't going to go to ANY kind of meeting unless there's  
something to attract them.  I've found that the only way to actually  
get people going to Perl Mongers meetings is by having something  
HAPPEN at the meeting.

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