APM: Tucson Perl Mongers chapter / Perl Users Group status report

[Chris Niswander]

(2002 March 29) STATUS REPORT
TUCSON PERL USERS GROUP / TUCSON PERL MONGERS CHAPTER

This message has been sent to the current subscribers to the
Tucson Perl Users Group / Tucson Perl Mongers listserv,
AND to five other people who this week have expressed interest
in joining the group.

PLEASE JOIN THE LISTSERV IF YOU HAVEN'T

Information about subscribing to (and unsubscribing from)
the Tucson Perl Mongers listserv (mailing list) is at
tucson.pm.org .

MEETING SCHEDULING: REQUEST FOR COMMENTS, PART 1:

On Thursday, I chatted with four people interested in a
Tucson Perl Users Group (we talked about it at a Tucson Computer
Society Computer Professionals SIG meeting).
This is what those four people thought about scheduling:

Duffy Gillman, Anthony Steckman:
  evenings are better

Paul Scott:
  most evenings are bad; 1st, 2nd, and 4th Mondays of month are OK.

Mike Cardy:
  currently very flexible

So it appears that out of those four people, the only times
that are good for *everyone* are the evening of the 1st, 2nd, or 4th Monday
of the month?

MEETING SCHEDULING AND LOCATION/AREA: REQUEST FOR COMMENTS, PART 2:

I would like to hear from *everyone on the listserv who cares
about meeting scheduling*: when will be good for you?

As for locations, two ideas have occurred to me:
1) Tucson's public libraries happily loan public meeting rooms
   to groups such as ours for free.
2) We might be able to get a software-related/IT-using organization
   (such as a software company, employer of IT people, etc.)
   to loan us meeting space.  Maybe with a whole lot of luck,
   it *might* include some fancier presentation equipment?

IMHO the listserv would be a good place to speak up and compare notes
on these questions.  Please do let your voice be heard.

Thanks,
Chris