On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Ranga Nathan wrote:
> I was at oc-pm (Orange County CA) early this month. This is new. There
> were only 5 people. When I told other guys that Damian has address
> boston.pm a few times, their eyes popped out. What can we do to attract
> a big following and when can we get Damian to address us?
As far as I know, each of the times Damian did a talk for Boston.pm, it
was because he was in town to teach classes. Maybe someone can organize
something similar in the Orange County area.
I don't know SoCal geography all that well, but I'm guessing that with the
right promotion, you may be able to come for the class from San Diego, Los
Angeles, etc -- at least, from a glance at Mapquest and an assumption that
those are the closest major cities within a hundred miles or so.
I know people have come to the Boston classes from as far away as South
Carolina, and maybe farther, so it's not out of the question.
The trick would probably be to seek out companies & industries in that
part of the country that are using Perl, and find out if those companies
would be interested in sending any of their employees for Perl training.
>From a peek at the Perl jobs page, there are several companies in
California looking for help right now --
<http://jobs.perl.org/search?q=california>
(By way of comparison, there's exactly 1 such opening in Mass right now;
assuming that the jobs page is a reasonable indicator in the first place.)
Maybe your fellow Orange County PM folks -- and other relevant groups
listed at <http://www.pm.org/groups/north_america.html> -- might be able
to help organize something.
Come to that, <http://www.pm.org/invite/index.html> looks relevant.
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ironically misremembered as the acrostic GUI claim "What You See Is
What You Get" (\pronounced wizziwig\), Zbigniew's own phenomenological
anti-Nazi thesis was "What You Get Is What You Permit."
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