Next Meeting
Proposed: Wednesday, December 12th, 7pm. (2nd Wednesday) - AdamFeuer's house near CapitolHill. (Directions via email on the MailingList soon.)
Good:
SteveHowell - Wednesday works for me, thanks
Folks that were in for Tuesday, how about Wedesday?
JeffSandys - good (only Monday night or unpredictable Soccer Tourny are bad for me)
WilhelmFitzpatrick - ok (but in general the 2nd Wednesday wouldn't always work for me)
Favorite Meeting Days (in general)
Cast your vote by adding 1 each proposed meeting time you like, and -1 to each proposed time you don't like. If you don't see a time you like, add it, and vote for it.
[3] Monday night
SteveHowell can meet Mondays 10/29 and 11/5
StephenFiggins--I have another engagement Mondays.
MikeOrr -- M-Th preferred, F OK. (1 vote)
[3.5] Tuesday night
AdamFeuer -- I'm only available the first two Tuesdays of the month. The first Tuesday is better for me.
WilhelmFitzpatrick -- I'm only available the first two Tuesdays of the month
StephenFiggins -- Like Adam and Wilhelm, I'm only available the first two Tuesdays of the Month.
MikeOrr -- prefer M-Th, F OK. (1 vote)
[1.5] Wednesday night
WilhelmFitzpatrick -- Most of my Wednesday nights are spoken for
MikeOrr -- prefer M-Th, F OK. (1 vote)
[-1.5] Thursday night
SteveHowell -- Thursday nights are bad, because some of us go to PairProgrammingAtTullys
AdamFeuer -- ditto
WilhelmFitzpatrick - tritto
MikeOrr -- prefer M-Th, F OK. (1 vote)
[4] Friday night
AdamFeuer -- Friday night is ok.
SteveHowell - ditto
MikeOrr -- OK, but prefer M-Th. (.5 vote)
[-.5] Saturday
[-1.5] Sunday
SteveHowell -- any time after noon
AdamFeuer -- I often have things to do on Sundays.
WilhelmFitzpatrick -- I try to avoid weekend commitments
MikeOrr -- ditto about weekend commitments (-1 vote)
JeffSandys -- ditto weekends (-.5) any weeknight (+.5)
AsimJalis (+1 vote)
How many meetings per month?
[0] One
MikeOrr -- pro: burnout is less likely. (0 vote)
[2] Two, on different days
MikeOrr -- pro: people that can't do one can do the other. (0 vote)
SteveHowell -- see my comment below
[1] One, with an occasional "extra event" on a different day
MikeOrr -- pro: the best of both worlds. (1 vote)
JeffSandys -- extra event, take it to the people
Discussion:
I think people really strengthen their commitment to a group if they have face-to-face contact with people once a month. I'd like two meetings a month, so that we can get everyone coming to a meeting pretty regularly at least once a month. The more fanatical among us will happily come to both. If we do go with the two-days approach, though, we will need to address the burnout factor that Mike mentions. I think the best way to keep meetings worthwhile is to make them interactive, and make the meetings solve real problems for people. I'd prefer an ask-and-solve format to a show-and-tell format. -- SteveHowell
I second the above! We could have one "normal" meeting (whatever that turns out to be) plus one problem solving/project oriented one? --BrianDorsey
My idea is to have a topic presentation (15 minutes) every other meeting. The other meeting would be just an informal talk session. This can be problem solving or project, or simply talking about what each other is doing in Python, asking questions about unknown modules, catching people up on previous meetings or previous presentations or the Portland group (PorPiggies), etc. --MikeOrr