Bill Ricker wrote: > Or do people need reminder on Friday/Saturday? Email reminder worked fine for me, I just didn't get around to RSVPing.
Generally, I don't think we need more email reminders, but reminders in more channels, such as Linked-In, Twitter, and even IRC. I see you did post a meeting notice to our Google+ group (more on that in a future posting). Then there are calendars...theoretically posting the meeting to a Google Calendar that others can subscribe to will result in the Boston.pm meetings showing up on subscriber's personal calendars. Not sure if there are enough Google Calendar users in Boston.pm to make that worth while. More channels means more work for Bill. Building and maintaining automation may not be worth the bother. Divide and conquer with a volunteer or two responsible for each channel might work, though likely with spotty reliability. Maybe there is some procedural way we can address that. With regards to RSVPs it might also help to accept those via some additional channels. Sending an email is pretty low effort, but posting to IRC is slightly less. (Of course if Bill isn't perpetually logged in to IRC, or we don't have logs, that won't work.) More RSVP channels to aggregate is again more work for Bill, but could be handled same as above. > Or bored with Config::Std CPAN maintainership project? Attendance clearly fluctuates quite a bit relative to the topic. In this case instead of offering knowledge, you were asking for labor, which is bound to disinterest many people. (Obviously not that literal. Fixing bugs and going through the CPAN release process can be educational. The topic, however, could have been described to emphasize those educational aspects.) My guess is the lack of interest was primarily due to the topic and close timing with the holidays - people just getting back to work and catching up. (Though the attendance was quite strong at the December meeting in the midst of the pre-holiday rush.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
