arrival dinner idea

[Brent Laabs]

If we renamed the Anti-Arrival Dinner to the Alt Arrival Dinner, then we'll
have to rename the Arrival Dinner to the Anti-Alt Arrival Dinner.

Seriously, the meaning of the dinners was absolutely clear the first time I
came to YAPC.  And also Mongolian sounds good for me too.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Ya'akov Sloman via yapc <yapc at pm.org>
wrote:

> Dave:
>
> I know you well enough to know that you intend nothing negative with the
> "anti-" prefix. If there is any reason to change it, it is to make clear
> that to people that don't know this isn't a genuinely "anti-" event.
>
> As communities grow, inside jokes become more obscure and intent more
> occult.  I don't think that renaming is a necessity, but evolution is a
> good thing and if you feel it's a positive change, I'd say go for it.
>
> Ya'akov
>
> > On May 19, 2015, at 14:35, Dave Rolsky via yapc <yapc at pm.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 19 May 2015, Uri Guttman via yapc wrote:
> >
> >> the first arrival dinner i attended was in pittsburgh but it wasn't
> labeled as such or announced in general. i first organized one (impromptu)
> at boca raton (an all you can eat sushi place - what year was that?). i
> have organized them many of the years since then. sometimes with help from
> the yapc team, sometimes like this at the last second. and i have no
> problem with dave's anti-arrival gang and attendees can do whatever they
> want sunday night.
> >
> > Yes, the reason for the anti-dinner is as much about the size of the
> group as it is the venue. That said, I like picking where I'm going to eat,
> because I'm a huge food snob. The "anti-" has always been a joke, and is
> not intended to reflect any actual opposition to the arrival dinner. If
> people really dislike it, I'm happy to rename to the wiki page. Maybe we
> can call it AltArrivalDinner or something like that?
> >
> >
> > -dave
> >
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