[ANNOUNCE] ThamesValley.pm

[Raf]

ThameValliers,

Following on from last weeks excitement, I am pleased to announce that we
now have a mailing list:

http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/thamesvalley.pm

I would urge all those of you who have expressed interest in joining to
subscribe to this list.  Further, those of you who were holding onto
details of interested parties are urged to pass on details of our new
list.

I have a Reading based venue which is waiting for us schedule a first 
meeting and therefore you are all invited to propose any presentations 
which you may be willing to give.

If we have enough interest, I'm hoping that we might be able to arrange 
something for the first wednesday in July?  We can probably discuss this 
on list, though.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Reading and on the list.

Raf

ps.  Thanks to everyone who has helped in setting this up; particularly 
Mr. Cross, without whom, we'd still be waiting for a mailing list.



On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Dave Cross wrote:

> Raf wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Dave Cross wrote:
>>> That's great news. The people at http://pm.org/ can help you get a new
>>> group integrated into the Perl Mongers infrastructure. Full details of
>>> what they can offer are at
>>>
>>>    http://groups.pm.org/faq.html
>> 
>> I'll check this out shortly.
>> 
>> I'm quite amazed by the positive reponse so far.  It's only been about two 
>> hours since I spoke with our centre manager and I've already had 8 perl 
>> developers here, express their interest.  One is getting in touch with 
>> further contacts at Cisco.  We also have everyone who just responded on the 
>> list and Adam's offer to give a talk.
>> 
>> It looks like this will be happening.  I'm going to check out the faq 
>> above.  In the mean time, if those interested can specify a convenient day 
>> of the week, perhaps we can start planning a first meeting in the very near 
>> future.  I'm good for most evenings, apart from Monday's and Fridays's. 
>> FYI: We're based close to Green Park 
>> (http://maps.google.com/?q=green%20park%20reading%20UK) in Reading and 
>> there's a dodgy Irish pub next door.
>> 
>> How does thamesvalley.pm sound?  It seems to cover the region of interest?
>> 
>> Very exciting.  Thanks to all who have expressed interest thus far.
>
> I wrote an article about how to run a successful Perl Mongers group. It
> might be useful to you.
>
>  http://www.pm.org/successful/
>
> Dave...
>
>