Re: meetings and time

[James Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net>]

On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:59:03AM -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
> > Would it be out of line to suggest that since Walt's studies don't
> > seem to leave him time to organize PM events, he should step down in
> > favor of someone else who does have time and will do it?
>
> I don't think it would be out of line to suggest that, but I am afraid
> that the reason no one else is stepping up is because they don't have
> the time either, as opposed to not wanting to step on Walt's toes.

A friendly lurker's perspective:

I spoke with Walt at YAPC and he did feel that his PhD studies have  
meant that he hasn't been able to do as much with phl.pm as in  
previous years.  Since I co-moderate a Perl users group myself, I  
feel his pain.

May I offer some suggestions:

1.  From my past forays into phl.pm territory (MJD preview talks a  
couple of years back), it's clear that there's a goodly number of  
people in your area interested in Perl.
2.  From past participation in YAPC, I know that those people are  
sociable (spell:  beer).
3.  If 1-2 people took the initiative to organize 6-9 social meetings  
over the next 12 months, that would be great!  As ny.pm has  
demonstrated, purely social meetings do not have to be scheduled on  
the same day every month in order to succeed (though I think that  
would be helpful).
4.  Perl Seminar NY -- which handles the tech meetings part of the  
public Perl activity in NYC -- schedules 8 tech meetings in a year,  
always on the same night of the month ('cause that's when we can get  
the room).  If phl.pm held, say, quarterly meetings on the same day  
of the month in the same location, that would be feasible -- and  
great, too!
5.  And if you held any of your activities on Friday nights or  
weekends, ny.pmers could conceivably attend as well.

jimk

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