hi all,
our tech meetings have not been drawing good crowds in the last year or
two. some of you may recall the early days (like in my attic!) where we
would have 20 or more regularly. it seems like in those days we were all
learning perl more and the meetings were a good way to do that. these
days everyone seems to be working or having a real life and not
attending. we can used some ideas for getting more interest in the
meetings. here are a few of mine:
lightning talks. other pm groups do these and have had good results. the
key is to realize that anyone (yes, even YOU!) can give a lightning
talk. you don't even need to prepare slides - e.g. just show the pod of
a module you like, explain how and why you use it, show some code, etc.
voila! you just did a lightning talk!
with a Q&A session after each talk, we could have 5 or so of these and
have a good meeting.
hackathon. we have tried to own a module but that didn't get moving so
well. so how about a hackathon on one of the most popular modules on
cpan? and one i happen to own? file::slurp is in need of some fixes and
such, notably better unicode support. there was a long thread on p5p
about how it doesn't do the 'right' thing but then few things do with
unicode. and unicode is one of my (many) weak areas. so we could do a
hackathon attacking the unicode stuff, address bug reports from RT, fix
up pod issues, etc. the source is now on github (perlhunter) and we can
also do some git stuff like learning about branching and merging. do we
have any git experts in house? so this hackathon could cover managing a
cpan module, git stuff, unicode, pod, module tests, and more. plenty to
learn and teach here.
watching some yapc or other videos. we are getting more and more
interesting talks on video. most of us won't spend the time at home or
work seeing them. watching them in a group at a meeting could be a winner.
anyhow, those are my current ideas. let the list brainstorm. we have
about 200 real subscribers here and we need more activity on the list
and at meetings.
thanx,
uri
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Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter
The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers
http://PerlHunter.com
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