[oak perl] June Meeting

George Woolley george at metaart.org
Wed Jun 11 19:46:36 CDT 2003


Well, the June meeting involved several improvisations.

11 people showed up ,
which is both more than we normally have
and a lot more than we expected.
So there was some moving of chairs around and such.

We had a lottery for an O'Reilly T-shirt
and an O'Reilly calendar.
Plan a was to use a toy lottery CGI 
Edwin Sakumoto had written at my request
for the lottery.
Plan b was to use a simple script I had written.
Circumstances conspired against both of those options
and what we  -- I'll leave it to your imagination.

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We'll be having a modest lottery next month too.
Perhaps we can use Edwin's CGI then.
It seems to do exactly the simple thing we need.
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We thought we were going to have a main speaker. 
However, the speaker didn't come.
(I'm trying to find out what happened. Hope he's OK.)
So I lengthened my planned lightning talk into a mini talk. 
Robert Kuropkat and Michael McMillan
gave unplanned minitalks.
Also, Adrien LaMothe gave an unscheduled lightning talk.
Personally, I found the talks quite interesting.

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Thank you, Robert, Michael and Adrien.
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7 of us ended up staying until around 11:30pm
talking and eating the goodies provided by our hosts.
Arden says staying so late was OK,
but I'm wondering if there's something we can do for our hosts.

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Anyway, thank you Arden.
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      George




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