[tpm] Tomorrow's meeting (was Re: Hi!)

[Alex Mackinnon]

I agree with Indy, in that a habit once broken stays broken, having little socials after are good, but to discontinue meetings because we have no speaker is not a good idea.  I suggest people bring their "questions" for all to answer, beefs, funny perl stories, perl job horror stories, list of places you'd never interview for (there still on jobs.perl.org) ever even with a gun to your head.
 
My point, no speaker is not a problem, its a chance to widen the conversation, just have a chairperson manage the shairing and make them at least put up their hands when they try to should each other down that we don't need case statements in perl 6:)
 
Let the fight begin :)
 
Alex
> From: indy at indigostar.com> To: tpm at to.pm.org> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:45:54 -0500> Subject: Re: [tpm] Tomorrow's meeting (was Re: Hi!)> > > What do you folks think about doing "social meetings" when we don't> > have a speaker scheduled? Instead of booking the room, we just meet > > at> > a restaurant?> > I would suggest against doing that. As Tim Mahar, founder of Seattle, > one the oldest PM groups, said it is important to have consistent > meetings on a fixed schedule. Even if the meeting is kept short, that > would be ok.> > We run the risk of, not only the meetings gradually loosing attendance, > but also the social ones too.> > Indy Singh> IndigoSTAR Software -- www.indigostar.com> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Graham" <magog at the-wire.com>> To: "Toronto Perl Mongers" <tpm at to.pm.org>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:37 PM> Subject: [tpm] Tomorrow's meeting (was Re: Hi!)> > > >> > There should be a meeting tomorrow, but I haven't yet got the> > announcement out.> >> > We don't have a speaker scheduled, but we typically hang out and> > discuss tech things for an hour or so and then go get some food and> > beverages.> >> > What do you folks think about doing "social meetings" when we don't> > have a speaker scheduled? Instead of booking the room, we just meet > > at> > a restaurant?> >> >> > Michael> >> >> >> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:08:52 -0500> > "Fulko Hew" <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:> >> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Fernando Oliveira> >> <fernandocorrea at gmail.com> wrote:> >>> >> > Hi, my name is Fernando, i am brazilian and i will do to toronto to> >> > study english. I am a active member of rio de janeiro perl mongers> >> > (rio.pm.org) e são paulo perl mongers (sao-paulo.pm.org). I want> >> > know if when i be in toronto if can i go to social meetings. sorry> >> > about my poor english. thanks> >> >> >>> >>> >> Hola??> >>> >> Our meetings are on the LAST Thursday of each month.> >> The location and times are described on our website:> >>> >>> >> http://to.pm.org/#Meetings> >> >> > -- > > Michael Graham <magog at the-wire.com>> > _______________________________________________> > toronto-pm mailing list> > toronto-pm at pm.org> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/toronto-pm> > > > _______________________________________________> toronto-pm mailing list> toronto-pm at pm.org> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/toronto-pm
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