[Van-pm] Vancouver.pm Leadership

[Luke Closs]

Me too!  Scott++

I'd like to get together for more informal hacking nights, where we could
write code and plot against the ruby and python hackers. :)

Luke

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Phil Whelan <phil123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations Scott! I'm looking forward to the regular meetings.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Scott McWhirter
> <scott+vancouver.pm at konobi.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm just letting you know that as of today, I've taken over as leader of
> > Vancouver Perl Mongers. Thanks muchly to Chris Simmons for his leadership
> > until now!
> >
> > We've been rather bad at getting meetings going, both technical and
> social.
> > I'm hoping to improve upon this.
> >
> > When I was down at PDX.pm a while back, I asked a bunch of questions
> about
> > how they were able to maintain the velocity they had with their meetings
> and
> > attendance. The answer was fairly obvious, but was good to hear. The key
> > seems to be to make it regular and have a meeting no matter what.
> >
> > So from now on, Vancouver.pm meetings will be held on the "Second
> Thursday"
> > of each month. Chris has said that Sophos would still be willing to host
> us
> > and I'm hoping groups like Activestate and Gossamer Threads would be
> willing
> > to help out if we were stuck from time to time. The aim will be to have
> > technical talks at each of these meetings and a drink afterwards; if
> there
> > are no technical talks, we'll have have a social meeting.
> >
> > For Feburary I have a talk that I want to give, Luke Closs wants to give
> a
> > talk and I have a non-perl friend who would like to give a talk on
> something
> > shiny. If anyone has anything cool, exciting or interesting that they
> would
> > like to talk about, just let me know!
> >
> > I'd like to hear feeback from folks on any questions or suggestions they
> > have.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Scott McWhirter- | -konobi-
> > Technology Consultant - Cloudtone Studios
> >
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