Re: [Philadelphia-pm] An Introduction and Inquiry About meetings

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Hi Scott,

I'm the one who was chatting with you on the IRC channel Friday
night.  Sorry it's taken me so long to reply.

It's true that we haven't had a meeting since sometime in 2014.  I've
gotten involved more with some other groups, especially the
Philadelphia Linux Users Group, and it's hard to find time to do
everything.  Still, it's been too long since we've met, and we should
try to do something.

Traditionally we've had 2 types of meetings: technical and social.
The technical meetings would be someone giving a talk about something
perl-related, and then we'd go get food and/or beers afterwards.  For
the social meetings we skip the talks and just meet someplace for
dinner.  We'd been meeting for a long time at Penn, but our contact
there has left so we have to find someplace else.  Also, if we were to
meet on July 6 that doesn't leave time to find a volunteer and for
them to prepare a talk.

So maybe a social meeting would be better for July.  The place we've
met most often is the Nodding Head Brewpub on the 1500 block of
Sansom in Center City.  Sometimes we've gone someplace else, such as
Chinatown.  On rarer occasions we've ventured out in the wilds of
suburbia.

Any thoughts?  And if we were to have a technical meeting, what would
you want to learn about?

Walt

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:40:27PM -0400, Scott Miller wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> My name is Scott and I am learning Perl right now.  I decided to learn the
> language because I'm teaching myself Linux administration and I wanted to
> learn to program.  I've dabbled in other languages before, but never really
> progressed beyond the beginner stage.  I decided on Perl since I know it's
> useful in systems administration as well as web server programming.
> 
> I stumbled upon the Philly Perlmongers group while browsing the Perl.org
> site, and I was excited to join a group, hoping that will give me more
> incentive and opportunities to learn; however, the site hasn't been updated
> since 2014, and when I inquired in the IRC group I found out that the group
> hasn't met since 2014.  Is anyone else interested in meetings?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott

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