Re: is London.pm purely a social group
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:16:22PM +0100, Andy Ford wrote: I have thought of starting a Southampton.pm group and thought more of the basic infrastructure required to support it... 1. Beer 2. Mail server 3. Web Page 4. Oh - members I guess!!! Based on the experience of starting Tyneside.pm, I think the most important thing is to have (at least) 2 members who will attend regular meetings. If no-one else turns up they'll have to like each other's conversation enough to keep the meeting going, and be prepared to do the same again next month (or whatever) This probably means that you need at least 3 members who will attend most meetings, in case 1 can't make it. Otherwise you can't have regular meetings which new people can turn up to on spec. If you're not going to have regular local meetings, what is the point of setting up a local perl mongers group? Beer is already available at many fine drinking establishments, and people who do not wish to turn up to local meetings are already catered for by existing mailing lists and web sites. Nicholas Clark
Re: is London.pm purely a social group
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:16:22PM +0100, Andy Ford wrote:
I have thought of starting a Southampton.pm group and thought more of
the basic infrastructure required to support it...
1. Steal Underpants
2. ...
3. Profit!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Re: is London.pm purely a social group
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:16:22PM +0100, Andy Ford wrote: I have thought of starting a Southampton.pm group and thought more of the basic infrastructure required to support it... 1. Beer 2. Mail server 3. Web Page 4. Oh - members I guess!!! 5. Well, I think you should conflate 2 + 3 into getting your PUG signed up with Perl Mongers http://www.pm.org/. Some sort of sweetheart deal with a pub owner might turn out to your advantage: I bring you business, you give us discount. That doesn't necessarily work very well in Very Large Cities. Cheers, Damon -- Damon Allen Davison http://allolex.freeshell.org/
Re: is London.pm purely a social group
Andy Ford sent the following bits through the ether: Anyone give me some pointers on what I should be thinking about If I decide to go ahead with this This might be useful: How to run a successful group: http://www.pm.org/successful/ Personally I'm convinced it's about the regular meetings, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Never fork with Unix, it spawns children
Re: is London.pm purely a social group
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 16:16 Europe/London, Andy Ford wrote: I have thought of starting a Southampton.pm group and thought more of the basic infrastructure required to support it... [snip] Good god! Don't tell me there are Perl developers near Dorset! (well, nearer than London anyway) I thought I was the only one :-) Adrian
