[niederrhein.pm] Niederrhein.pm Treffen Oktober 2014 am 18:00 at LoveRails in Köln

[Johannes Markert]

Hey there!

After so many heartwarming statements during the last days,
I have to give you all at least a little response. ;-)

Your maillinglist doesn't seem dead to me and I'm following -
' pretty sure others do as well.

One comment on this meetup.com thing:
I'm definitely not interested in registering there. Maillinglists
just work fine for me. It is the most convinient
way to stay in touch with a user group I can think of.

What concerns me more is the shameful lack of a nice little website.
Nothing too fancy and complicated. Just some pictures, an overview
when and where there were the last meetings and what has been discussed
there. This should do it. As far as I see it, our target group is not a
big fan of social networks anyway. They (and we of course!) prefer
the old fashioned way. Keep it simple and stupid!
I'm looking forward to debate this with you tonight!

By the way, all user groups I attended so far have the same issue
we are discussing here in one way or the other. ;-D

Cheers,
Johannes

PS: @Wendy: I cannot wait to listen to what you have to say about Perl 
6. :-D

PSS: Does anyone has any insights into Perl/TK? I have some questions 
about that.

On 10/21/2014 02:18 PM, Wendy G.A. van Dijk wrote:
> At 11:26 AM 10/21/2014, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> >* Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+nrpm at rabbit.us> [2014-10-18 18:10]:
> >> In short I am not in any way married to the idea, so if most people
> >> really *dislike* the virtually free advertisement we get through
> >> meetup - maybe I should kill the account. I am open to ideas either
> >> way (including handing it over/adding more orgas).
> >
> >FWIW since I publicly stated my lack of intention to get an account on
> >meetup.com, I should add it is not due to any objection to the listing
> >itself, nor to the site. (I simply dislike opening accounts in general.)
>
> I am with Aristotle on this.  I already have way too many accounts 
> that I hardly use (in most cases just for one specific use with low 
> traffic), and several accounts that I really really use a lot.  One 
> more would not hurt, of course, but I have been cleaning house, as in 
> closing dozens of accounts this year.
>
> I know very well that we could communicate a bit more on this 
> mailinglist.  We could ask people to come to the meetings with a bit 
> more pressure (as in, Perl people react to pressure in meaningful 
> ways...  eh, I mean "please please come") and we could post summaries 
> of what happened at the meeting.  We could urge people more to give 
> presentations.
>
> To give the right example...   I prepared a discussion topic for 
> tonight.  About Perl 6 and when it will be Christmas.  Let's see if 
> people are interested.
>
> See you all tonight.  Please, please, come, give a technical 
> presentation (or have a subject to discuss).
>
> Greetz,
> Wendy van Dijk
>
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