[oak perl] State of the pm: March 1, 2003
George Woolley
george at metaart.org
Sat Mar 1 18:05:32 CST 2003
State of the Oakland.pm
March 1, 2003
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Affiliations
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O'Reilly User Group Program
got 6 books/products: as gift, to 6 different people
books and products reviewed: 6 (3 more)
banner opportunities taken: 3
Perl Mongers
Listings
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Website References:
CostaRica.pm
Ecovillage (on calendar)
Google Directory
Monterey.pm (link to our related groups list)
Perl Mongers North American List
San Francisco.pm (on related groups list)
Planned:
HawkesBay.pm
Earlier we requested listings with:
Berkeley.pm
Linux Mafia
SiliconValley.pm
(I've basically given up on these. Oh, well.)
The following don't have listings for related groups:
Sonoma.pm
Search Engine Listings:
Try +Oakland +"Perl Mongers".
I tried (2003-02-27) on the 6 top search engines
per my most recent evaluation (2003-01)
(i.e. on Google, AOL Search, Excite, Teoma and Yahoo, Alta Vista)
with the following result:
All 6 had either our site or the PM link to it
in one of the first 3 positions.
Mailing Lists
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Oakland.pm mailing list subscribers: 17 (as of 2003-02-27)
Oakland.pm messages:
November 106
December 99
January 54
February 115
PBML mailing list subscribers: 12 (as of 2003-02-27)
PBML messages:
(all messages lost, I believe)
December 39 (many messages lost, I believe)
January 15
February 52
Meetings
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monthly meeting attendees:
November 3
December 9
January 8
February 11
regular meeting time: 2nd Tuesday at 7:30pm
regular meeting place: not yet determined.
places we've tried:
#1 Coffee Mill (not open)
#2 George Woolley's (too small)
#3 Village Restaurant**
#4 Arden Schaeffer's**
places not tried but being considered:
David Fetter's**
places considered and rejected: 5 (that I know of)
under consideration: see **
longer term: what do we want?
status: still looking
March Meeting Plans:
talk by: no talk
theme: social, looking at what next
select a meeting place
invitations out for speakers: 1
future speakers:
March: no speaker (by design)
April: David Fetter
May: not yet determined
June: Dan Meriwether
Website
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The Home Page includes sections on:
what the Club is at all
the next meeting
* acknowledgements
* contact info
There are separate pages on:
* related groups
* members (including 8 profiles)
There are separate directories for:
* learning
* mailinglists
* meetings
* reviews (including 4 book reviews)
and also for
* directions
* our O'Reilly User Group affiliation
(including newsletters)
Finally
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Comments? Corrections?
-- George
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