[LA.pm] dinner thursday 11/20

[Terrence Brannon]

Scott Francis wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:32:30AM -0800, metaperl at urth.org said:
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>>I had to wipe my disk due to a virus, so I might have missed something.
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>>[1] Robert solicited proposals for a technical talk and I responded. 
>>What has become of this offer. There was some initial resistance by Ask 
>>on the grounds of difficulty finding a presentation forum. To this 
>>resistance two solutions were offered (1) a socio-technical talk by me 
>>and (2) a room at rent.com
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>>As far as I know, neither my talk nor the alternatives were rejected and 
>>it certainly was not put to public vote, which brings me to my second issue.
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>Not rejected - I would LOVE to hear somebody present a technical talk over
>some good Italian food (which is the venue for next Thursday).
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cool.

>>[2] Is LA.pm a democratic organization? Do the members have any 
>>power/input into what happens where? As far as I can tell from this 
>>email, there was no process of discussion or generation of a general 
>>consensus on what happened when.
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>it's "whoever wants to do something, proposes it, and anybody who's available
>and willing shows up". It's just that usually Robert or Ask are the ones who
>get tired of doing nothing before the rest of us. :)
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>Really, we end up being more like a BoF or social gathering with technical
>overtones than a technical conference that meets regularly (see
>http://www.uuasc.org for something with more regularity). This suits me, but
>as I said I'm delighted to listen to pretty much anyone hold forth on nearly
>any technical topic in most any venue (doing it over food is even better,
>IMO).
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>>[3] I have prepared the slides to my talk and am willing to rent a car 
>>if necessary to present them. Here are the completed slides:
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>>http://www.urth.org/~metaperl/domains/metaperl.com/talks/2003/november/TABLE_OF_CONTENTS.html
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>If you're in the mid-Wilshire or Hollywood areas, I'd be happy to give you a
>lift.
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yes, Koreatown. My address is

924 S. New Hampshire Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90006
310-403-1987

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=g9EA3ep_0TosN1xE6S5NHkwoy1ZX8kO73CrP1SA-&csz=90006&country=us


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