Re: Is the Austin PM group sitll alive?

Kind of frustrating, this Austin Perl Monger group. We have had trouble finding a good place to have meetings. Now I've heard that HostGator is going to sponser us and provide a place to meet. Our last meeting the 7 of us stood around at a bar and had a very nice but mostly social meeting. Good bar, but not a great place for a meeting. In attendence were Matt Trout and John Napiorkowsky! That was Dec 17th.

Notices about meetings tend to go out the day of the meeting, I'm sorry to say. We should have great meetings. Our current president once convinced Ingy dot Net and Reini Urban to come to a meeting in Austin to discuss some of the new directions for making Perl faster. There were only 6 of us there for that.

Things look good for the new year. If we get a sponser, have a good place to meet, put together interesting presentations, I'm sure there are a lot of people using Perl in the Austin area. There are a lot of great things happening in the wider Perl community. Our group just needs to do a better job of advertising and conducting meetings. For solidarity sake, anyone interested could also join the perl meetup.com group in Austin; please.

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Re^2: Is the Austin PM group sitll alive? by LanX (Saint) on Jan 01, 2014 at 15:19 UTC
> Our last meeting the 7 of us stood around at a bar and had a very nice but mostly social meeting. Honestly, from my experience with two regular Perlmonger groups social meetings in bars are essential. They are a place for a relaxed chat about tech things w/o big preparation. Why don't you try to find a bar for a regulars' table once a month like we do? :) Those meetings are the backbone for the kind of "workshops" you seem to intend, which can only happen once in a while. Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]
Re^3: Is the Austin PM group sitll alive? by itnomad (Scribe) on Jan 01, 2014 at 16:19 UTC
According to our president, Will Braswell, we are aiming to have meetings twice a month: one at the sponser's meeting place and one at a bar. The meeting I described was a 'holiday' meeting. So social was good, and the bar, 'BB Rovers' is a great place. But the issue of a place to have regular meeetings is a long standing problem for the Austin Perl Mongers. I'm hoping for a convenient location with plenty of seating, WIFI, and a projector. We had a fantastic presentation in November covering Catalyst, big data mining and graphing tools. No projector. We were all gathered around a table in a coffee shop. Like I said, things look good for 2014, though.	[reply]