On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Ron Newman wrote: > On Apr 12, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Sean Quinlan wrote: > > > If Boston.com is not available I do have access to rooms near the T. > > Why are we no longer able to use Boston.com? Has everyone there > switched to Python or PHP or Ruby?
It's not necessarily the case that Boston.com can't host meetings, but it would be constructive to have a backup venue in mind in case a day comes that Boston.com can't or won't be able to help any more. Boston.com has been hosting Boston.pm meetings for a while now -- five years or something like that? -- and a lot has changed over that much time. Like any company, they don't have the same management, staff, or needs & resources that they did a few years ago. They seem to have been a big Perl shop then; now they use a lot of Zope & Python. A time may come that the company decides that hosting the Perl Mongers no longer makes sense for them, and I think we should be ready for that. Nota bene: I used to work at Boston.com, but haven't worked for them for almost a year now, so I don't know what their plans are. My personal opinion is that hosting a technical group like this once a month is a pretty good arrangement for both sides, but I also know that most of the work to keep things going tends to come down to one or two people, and it can be a lot of work to pull off. It's a big commitment. No one at Boston.com has said anything to me about where things are going with Boston.pm, one way or another. I'm just suggesting as a regular group member who is aware that we haven't had a meeting in months now that it might not be a bad idea to consider venues as a supplement to or replacement for Boston.com's conference room. -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
