On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:39:39 -0400 Todd Rinaldo via Houston <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a partially formed idea I've been tossing around. There is a > ton of content online from past and present YAPCs now. Not to mention > other conferences. Often this content is coming from the author of the > feature / method being discussed. I was wondering if we could somehow > integrate that into a meeting with discussion. > > The format might be: > 1. We vote up and watch a list of videos people like (possibly clipped > to the good parts) > 2. Discussion / Q&A of content. > > I get that I and others could do this on our own. So I'm hesitant to > say there's value. I thought I'd throw it out to the list and see if > anyone's had any thoughts based on the idea. [Drat, I didn't reply all on this one.] I can see this as a start to a discussion in the group. On the other hand, would everyone really want to sit as a group to watch a video of someone presenting somewhere else? Any real opinions? G. Wade > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > It's about 3 weeks to the next Houston.pm meeting on July 10 at > > cPanel. > > > > Does anyone have a topic they would like to present? > > > > Is there any kind of topic you guys would like to hear about? > > > > * Perl beginner > > - we've had a couple of these lately > > - ? > > * Perl advanced > > - ? > > * General programming > > - ? > > * Open Source projects we should know about > > - ? > > * Tools/environment > > - we haven't had editor presentations in a while > > - ? > > * Security > > - ? > > * Hardware > > - doing anything cool with hardware and Perl? > > - ? > > * Something unrelated to Perl, but still of interest to the group > > - Mind hacks > > - Making > > - ? > > > > Remember the quality of meetings is under your control. > > G. Wade > > -- > > It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter > > how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. > > -- Richard Feynman > > _______________________________________________ > > Houston mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > > -- Be a good ancestor. -- Jonas Salk _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
