[boulder.pm] incoming message from the big giant head?

Walter Pienciak walter at frii.com
Mon Jan 29 09:50:01 CST 2001


Hey,

It's snowing outside, and I've caught my breath from the holidays
madness.  Life sucked for a while there, but it's better now.  I
hope it's the same for @you.

Anyway, I want to go snowshoeing.  It was just too much fun last
time.  But I also don't want to be derelict in what duties I might
be considered to have as Nominal Leader of this motley crew of
ne'er-do-wells, geeks, gurus, and diligent students of Perl.

Would anyone be interested in an actual meeting rather than a hike?
I have no idea what we'd do.  Informal hanging out and chatter?
A formal presentation under dimmed lights in a lecture hall?

Does anyone have something they'd like to hear about?
Only a few people talk much on the mailing list, and I don't feel like
I have a good sense of what most members want/need.

Walter


As a postscript, maybe I should add something that those of you
who've attended meetings in the past have heard:

This group drifts along.  I don't have the need or desire to try to
lead it along by the nose, and schedule things, and make presentations,
or perform CPR.  Maybe it's wrong thinking, but I'm comfortable with
Boulder.pm being as active or inactive as its members want.  There
are a LOT of good technical groups around here, some that have meetings
and some that exist only on mailing lists.  I figure Boulder.pm has
a lot of overlap with those groups, and that as a result, even though
we're low-profile, no one here is "technology-deprived".  So I'm not
worried too much.

On the other hand, if someone has questions they're not asking, here's
a sincere plea that you ask.  Odds are that someone else either has the
same question or will be dealing with it in the future.  Or if you have
some coherent thoughts on dealing with an issue, don't wait for a question:
push the information out.

Every once in a while, we have a meeting, or an e-mail like this
goes out, and the responses to the question "What would you like to do?"
are generally low-key both in tone and number.  Which I take to mean that
the status quo is just fine.

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