Re^2: Is the Austin PM group sitll alive?

> 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)

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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]

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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.

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