I like the idea and can potentially help out by finding speakers when the UW hosts meetings.
A warning though: I'm most familiar with the Python happenings at UW. It would be best to also have someone work to get speakers who has the pulse of some of the local open source / industry efforts. Thanks, Justin On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there anyone who would like to take over content planning for the > regular SeaPIG meetings, with an eye toward soliciting more speakers? > There have been regular requests for more formal talks at meetings, > and some people have said they would attend meetings if there were > talks. I don't think talks should take up the whole two hours or be > every month, but if there are speakers available we could certainly > have more talks. > > I tend to assume that since nobody puts talks on the next meeting's > wiki page, there are no talks available. But somehow Portland manages > to find talks every month, or at least they did as of the last time I > attended a few years ago. I may not be the best person to organize > this, so maybe somebody else would have better luck. > > We won't need any talks till February because they'll all be sucked > into the Python Day and we'll be busy planning it. But we could > consider a more talk-heavy paradigm after the Day. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> >
