[sf-perl] Minutes from the 2014 Planning Meeting

[Joseph Brenner]

> Comments are VERY welcome!

Well, first I wanted to make a correction: "Gamesters of Triskelion" was a
*second* season show.



On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:45 PM, VM Brasseur <sfpm at vmbrasseur.com> wrote:

> Earlier today the four co-orgs (Fred Moyer, Joe Brenner, VMB, Jeff
> Thalhammer) met at Tu Lan for tasty Vietnamese food and tastier 2014
> planning. Here are the notes from that meeting.
>
> Comments are VERY welcome!
>
> -----
> What are the small things we’re not doing right?
>    * No promotion, not even signs at events
>       * Truth! We'll work on this, esp. for events in public venues
>    * Not good at saying whether or not we have food
>       * Ah! Good point! We'll make a point of declaring this up front
>    * State up-front datetimes of meetings, don’t force people to follow a
> link
>       * Basic usability: FAIL. We'll include datetimes up front in future
> emails & postings
>    * SV.pm had recruiters at the events. Should we do this?
>       * Bay Area Perl companies?
>          * craigslist?
>          * Shutterstock
>          * CrowdTilt
>          * Black Rock
>          * High Paradigms
>          * bpress
>          * Aruba (south bay)
>          * Ariba (south bay)
>          * Others?
>      * Do they even work with recruiters?
>
> Questions:
>    * What resources do our members use/read on the internet?
>       * Can post events, discussions there
>       * Look to see what gaps there are in these resources & fill them
> outselves
>    * Twitterverse: Who'd like to come speak at SF.pm?
>       * VMB has tweeted already; more needed throughout year
>    * Which CPAN modules need adoption?
>       * SF.pm can adopt module(s) & have hackthons to work on them
>
> Talk ideas
>
>    * January
>       * Adam Kennedy: Data Science
>          * Date TBD, pending Adam renewing his visa
>    * February
>       * Joe!: Unicode
>    * March
>       * Brad Fitzpatrick: Go
>       * Fallback: VMB on interviews & job hunts & related
>    * April
>       * Lightning talks!
>       * Talks for Perl lovers, not necessarily about Perl
>    * Other
>      * Talk to Larry about presenting about Perl 6
>
> Other ideas:
>
>    * Adopt some CPAN modules?
>       * Have hackathon to support them
>    * Book club?
>       * Read a Perl book; gather to discuss
>    * Kickstarter to get some seed money/donations?
>       * See below
>       * Approach TPF?
>    * Workshop
>       * TODO: Contact other PM organizers about how they organize their
> workshops
>         * PPW
>         * Oasis Perl
>         * Nordic Perl
>         * LPW
>         * Others?
>    * Meet with SV.pm & join forces
>    * YAPC CFP-fest
>       * Event to help people craft CFPs for YAPC
>       * Potential follow-up: How to present correctly
>         * Get Josh to help here?
>    * TODO: Set a co-org meeting for January
>       * Specific actions on how to get to 600 (see below)
>       * Specific actions for the fund (see below)
>
> Goals & Metrics
>
>    * At least 600 members on the Meetup group by the end of the year
>       * Broaden the message
>       * Perl lives! Yay, go team!
>    * Try to foster discussion on SF.pm listserv
>       * Need metric/benchmark for this
>    * More than 12 meetings in the next year
>    * Establish a fund for workshop/conferences/speakers
>       * We're all for this
>       * Needs more discussion to hammer out a LOT of details
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