On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:24:01PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I'd like to make a reasonably large (like on use.perl and the perl6-meta &
> perl6-internals lists) announcement of the Parrot demo at next tuesday's
> tech meeting.
Dan, since I'm one of the people responsible for Boston.com providing
the meeting space, I guess I can say feel free to announce the demo to
use.perl, perl6-meta, or any other place you feel appropriate.
In practice, it probably doesn't really matter too much, since
boston.pm membership isn't something easy to define. (The closest
thing to a membership roster is the subscriber file of the mailing
list, and no one can see that except the mail admins.) I appreciate
your asking, and keeping me from being caught unaware.
I guess the only things to suggest when you make your announcement is
to have people RSVP, so we know how many people are showing up. Right
now, Ronald Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gathers all
the RSVPs for the boston.pm list, but he might have other
considerations for others. (Perhaps having you collect the RSVPs and
forward them to him in one batch.)
Another suggestion is to make sure the date and time are prominent in
the announcement and if there is a tactful way of putting it, see if
you can try to tell people not to show up too early. A half an hour or
so is fine, but for the Damian meeting we had people arriving to the
office as early as 4:00. At that hour the premises is still active in
its business use, and strangers wandering around is distractful.
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