arrival dinner idea

Tue May 19 12:17:22 PDT 2015

And this is a why I prefer the term "arrival anti-dinner". Add to the
obfuscation!

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Brent Laabs via yapc <yapc at pm.org> wrote:

> 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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