davorg writes "At a meeting of the Perl Foundation at the recent Open Source Convention, I agreed to take on the role of Perl Mongers User Group Co-ordinator. I'll will be acting as liason between the Perl Foundation and the 500 local Perl Mongers groups. I see the local Perl Mongers groups can be a great resource for grassroots advocacy and would like to see the Perl Foundation do all that it can to empower them. Leon Brocard will be helping me by working on the www.pm.org web site."
Re:Excellent!
acme on 2002-08-07T14:06:56
Actually, davorg has prohibited me from making everything orange:-( The content is (apparently!) more important - some of it is really out of date. I mostly want to concentrate on getting an automated way to keep the groups list up to date and full of useful information. Re:Excellent!
davorg on 2002-08-07T14:34:11
davorg has prohibited me from making everything orangeI think you'll find I've prohibited you from making anything orange.
/me feels ever so slightly like a Golgafrinchan discussing what colour it should be and whether people want web sites that can be nasally inserted
Re:Excellent!
nicholas on 2002-08-07T16:04:17
Actually, davorg has prohibited me from making everything orange:-( Quite reasonable, IMHO. If you make both the foreground and background colours orange, then many people would find it hard to read
Re:Excellent!
koschei on 2002-08-08T00:02:16
Oh I don't know. A mix of dark and light orange could be... orangey.
Re:Excellent!
darobin on 2002-08-08T00:13:01
To keep the group list up to date it may be a good idea to delegate handling of those at the country level, it's easier to keep track on a more local basis.
Re:Excellent!
babbage on 2002-08-08T19:01:55
A good idea, but I think it breaks down for any country much bigger than the UK. It's all very well to have a delegate representing the handful of [very active, from what I can tell] UK groups, but that would break down very quickly for the USA. Going regional might make more sense over here: northeast, midwst, south, etc. Something that arranges it so that the regional delegate only has to keep track of say a couple dozen groups at most, and finding a geographic distribution that accomodates that. 'course, this all starts getting very bureaucratic very fast...:/
I just thought I'd mention that I've tried to contact several people about norwegian perl mongers, however, I haven't been getting 1 reply in mail.
Either they don't take well to strangers (They are norwegian, after all), or Oslo.pm is dead dead dead (much more likely).
Unless it's alive, and they just hate me, I'd be interested in reanimating it, or at least giving it a shot
Marcus
Re:Oslo.pm very much dead :-/
davorg on 2002-08-08T08:41:44
This is a problem I've already identified. It's all very well having 500 local Perl Monger groups listed on the site, but if a third of them don't respond to email then it just gives a bad impression.
I'll be attempting to contact every local group and those that don't respond will be marked as defunct.
Re:Oslo.pm very much dead :-/
dha on 2002-08-11T06:05:20
NY.pm is still alive.
No, really.:-) Re:Oslo.pm very much dead :-/
olai on 2002-10-22T10:29:45
Oslo.pm is now up and kicking again;-)
Fist meeting, with some 18 persons attending, was held Oct 16.
Further notice will be given later. (Oslo.pm is again registered)
Scroll down the page to the part where it talks about "resources" and have a look.
If you know that 'Perl Users Groups' eq 'Mongers' you won't find anything under 'M'. Further down, one sees 'User Groups'. Follow that link and you come to another page that contains a solitary group: ny.pm.org.
The only other link is in the "Perl Sites" textbox down the bottom of the left hand column, and personally my eyes ignore the contents of the margins on the basis that they usually contain adverts.
So I'd be eternally grateful if anyone could do something about raising the visibility in the middle of the page.
-- just another Perl Monger tsar
Re:Visibility on perl.com
davorg on 2002-08-08T08:43:48
I hadn't noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out. That's certainly something I can address.
