[Chicago-talk] Regular meetings start again in January

[Andy Lester]

> and it isn't something for "props".

It's not?  Organizing a monthly meeting isn't propsworthy?  I'm  
surprised to hear that from you brian.



> Doing something new in Chicago isn't a put-down to
> anything anyone else is doing, but that's what controls the discussion
> whenever we talk about it.

Nobody has anything against doing things in Chicago.  I'm just tired  
of hearing people complain that what is getting done isn't to their  
liking.


> There are two different groups of people, and we're forcing them to
> operate under the same name, use the same mailing lists, the same
> website, and so on. These two groups don't have to have exclusive
> membership, but I think it's easier to let them operate separately.

I don't understand this, but I'd like to hear more.  I just don't see  
how it hurts to call both things-that-happen-in-the-Loop and things- 
that-happen-in-the-burbs is harmful to either one.  I think it helps  
BOTH sides.


> I'd like to see the name "Chicago.pm" come back to Chicago, and the
> thriving extra-Chicago group in a name the describes them. If that's
> going to hurt people's feelings though,

I just don't see how that would help anything at all.

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