[yapc] BOF - local perl monger meeting attendance

[Len Jaffe]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jesse Thompson <jesserthompson at gmail.com>wrote:

> well said.  I think what you say makes sense.
>
> For clarification, my proposed $work.pm idea would be to "teach awesome
> Perl hackery" to the "maintenance programmers" so that they might be
> interested in $city.pm.
>
> Also, it would give the "people who have families to go home to" a
> opportunity to be part of a Mongers group while their lives are busy, and
> maybe make them interested in attending $city.pm when they have more time
> in the future.  Even if $city.pm never pans out, at least it encourages
> more interest in Perl.


That's what brown-bag lunch sessions are for.  I can often get better
turnout from my coworkers at a noon brown-bad than a 7pm PM meeting -- and
we host the PM meetings at our office.

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