Some notes on our discussion at ny.pm social meeting, Monday January 18 2016,
taken by Philip Hood:


 the first meeting was at peculiar pub mon. 20160118, at 6, before
  main ny pm social meeting, in order to discuss how to structure
  some beginners group to create a framework and community of
  people who meet, face to face, at some regular intervals, w/
  the purpose of learning perl6 in some more or less
  organized way.  Much of the strucure of the sessions
  will be later determined.
  I was only able to stay until about 6:45 and had to leave for
  some other event.

 I am not sure who all was there, but there were 5 people, including
  jim and myself. I took a picture, which I will include. perhaps
  jim will notice names.

 some discussion was had about installation experiences. jim said
  that he was able to install rakudo 205.11, but that the experience
  was spotty.

 another attendee
  there was trying to install on android, a gnu debian,
  but was coming up to some error. rakudo brew had some issues,
  elsewhere, as well as rakudo moar ..

 jim said that what he was hoping mostly, in terms of getting together
  a group was to assemble a group of people with "a serious
  hobbyist attitude for 4 or 5 months" ...

 we spoke about introductory materials and said that possibly there
  weren't really any. jim said that he had found some things
  useful at: http://friedo.com/blog ... and that's he's been
  using. It was mentioned that brian foy might be coming out,
  sooner or later, with some introductory p6 text.

 jim would like to meet somewhere around feb. 6, and following,
  generally on
  saturdays, for about 2 & 1/2 hours as the structured "official"
  meeting time - for those on time budgets,
  with time going over for various things ... but, again, how
  structured and focused the sessions would be would have to
  be determined by the group.  In the past, there was varied
  "mileage" with keeping things either too focused or underfocused,
  so, we'd have to see ... there was talk of maybe having a
  pet project such as building a static blog manager ... there
  also seemed to be consensus with not keeping this an open-ended
  thing, but, putting on, again a 5 month or so "version 1" of
  the introductory phase, with perhaps some hack-a-thon type
  thing to follow up in the fall.

 we also talked about meeting the first saturdays of each month,
  only up until the summer, to focus on certain things, the first
  of which ought to be installation ... I said that I thought that
  we should also keep some notes to share with other user groups,
  and jim said that we should have
  some scribe. I said that I'd be happy to be responsible for
  a cut on those notes, if he would also add comments on
  those notes and provide a venue for those.  the hope is to
  provide materials and a path/framework that other user groups
  can use to create such programs for their respective user
  groups.

 for the interim, I can put these notes up on perlish.org until
  we find some other place and format. I said that I would
  send these out to dc and him, and that he should fill in
  some gaps as necessary.

 I took a picture and left.