On Fri, June 5, 2015 10:26 am, Robert Stone via Houston wrote: > How much interest would there be in doing an "activity" social meeting ...
Nowadays almost everyone is over-obligated to the extent that attendance of even a "regular" PM meeting entails neglect of responsibilities or other sacrifice. And some may be unable to justify the luxury of a purely social PM meeting which provides no opportunity for learning Perl resources and technique. But, with a bit of advertising, some PM meetings might be used as a platform for both useful service and recruiting. In the early days of Linux, the task of installing Linux and configuring a complement of applications and utilities to work together as a system could be difficult and frustrating for the novice. To address the problem, the Linux User Groups at Rice and U. of H. hosted at the beginning of each semester an Installfest to which were invited both students and the general public. This was back before everyone had a high-speed Internet connection and an LCD monitor. A novice to Linux could bring his system (complete with CRT monitor and printer) to the Installfest and walk away with a properly-configured Linux system, with whatever applications he desired loaded, configured, and functioning as a system. While providing opportunity for association between members of the LUG, the Installfest served to encourage fellow students and members of the community to join the LUG. Perhaps PM could advertise an occasional "bring your problem to PM and let the Perl experts get you pointed in the right direction" night. RH _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
