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

Jim Baker boulder-pm at jim-baker.com
Mon Jan 29 13:18:23 CST 2001


Snowshoeing sounds wonderful.  Perhaps we can do this along the Mesa trail
this Tuesday afternoon, at around 3 PM, starting from Chautauqua.  I know
the snow cover doesn't last too long here, but it should last probably that
long, right?

I could go for a meeting too.  Perhaps we still have time to invite Damian
on his world speaking tour: http://www.yetanother.org/damian/events.html.
I'd love to hear him speak on Parse::FastDescent since I do use its
(slowish) predecessor, Parse::RecDescent.  Or more generally about his views
on the evolution of Perl into a metalanguage, without hopefully becoming a
monstrosity like Lisp.  Just its own monstrosity, of course.  In a proper
frame of mind, topics like these are a lot of fun to discuss informally too
IMHO because they represent the convergence of computers and philosophy, and
as is well known, that is where it also converges with brew pubs.

- Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-boulder-pm-list at pm.org
[mailto:owner-boulder-pm-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of Walter Pienciak
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:50 AM
To: boulder-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
Subject: [boulder.pm] incoming message from the big giant head?


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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