[LA.pm] Fwd: hollywood.pm.org

[Jeremy Leader]

There's still some perl work going on at Yahoo! Search
Marketing (formerly Overture, formerly in Pasadena), you
should probably put a white pin at:

3333 Empire Avenue, Burbank, CA, 91504, US

-- 
Jeremy Leader
jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
leaderj at yahoo-inc.com (work)

Allen Day wrote:
> I've taken the liberty to plot (in white) several of the shops in the area
> I see mentioned on this list.  I just did a WHOIS on the domains.
> 
> - Rent.com
> - Shopzilla.com
> - Citysearch.com
> - Ticketmaster.com
> - Google.com Santa Monica
> 
> Let me know if you'd like a to add a white pushpin -- maybe we can use
> this to select meeting locations in the future.
> 
> -Allen
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Allen Day wrote:
> 
> 
>>Or plot yourself here:
>>
>>http://www.wooly.org/geodas/LA.pm.cgi
>>
>>-Allen
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Jeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>>While we are discussing this, why don't we first find out each group  
>>>member's location?
>>>
>>>Me -- Arcadia
>>>
>>>On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Kevin Scaldeferri wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Feb 2, 2006, at 2:52 AM, Allen Day wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I find this whole debate to be interesting. As many of you already
>>>>>>know,
>>>>>>Ticketmaster is based out of West Hollywood. One issue that has
>>>>>>repeatedly
>>>>>>come up when discussing using our location as a venue for events is
>>>>>>that
>>>>>>we're not easily accessible. Granted the commuting in-and-out on
>>>>>>surface
>>>>>>streets can be an issue, but I think there is a bigger problem.  
>>>>>>It is
>>>>>>simply
>>>>>>true that LA is big enough that it poses significant obstacles to
>>>>>>people
>>>>>>consistently attending certain events when you have to cross the
>>>>>>entire
>>>>>>length of a city of this size. For instance, I find any event in  
>>>>>>Santa
>>>>>>Monica to be totally inaccessible!
>>>>>
>>>>>I agree with this.  I commute between Culver City and Westwood, and
>>>>>sadly
>>>>>find the Hollywood meetings impossible to attend.  I have yet to
>>>>>attend a
>>>>>Linux Movies meeting after > 4 years of receiving announcements for
>>>>>them.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Personally, I find it a little mindboggling to see one person who  
>>>>works
>>>>in WeHo and can't make it to SM, and another basically vice-versa.  I
>>>>mean, that's what, 5 or 6 miles?  Hardly "the entire length of the
>>>>city".
>>>>
>>>>Do folks realize that people used to come from *Irvine* to attend  
>>>>LAJUG
>>>>meetings in Pasadena?
>>>>
>>>>It starts to sound like the problem is really that people aren't all
>>>>that interested in having a group (or that their interest isn't being
>>>>engaged), rather than that there is a problem with location.
>>>>
>>>>I'm sorry to pick on people, and I hope you don't take it personally,
>>>>but I really think that the root problem isn't where the meetings are
>>>>or aren't located.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-kevin
>>>>
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