[BangPypers] BangPypers completes 10 years

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Anand B Pillai <anandpillai at letterboxes.org
> wrote:

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> Hi Senthil,
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> On Thursday 13 August 2015 07:50 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> > On Aug 13, 2015 12:19 AM, "Anand B Pillai"
> > <anandpillai at letterboxes.org> wrote:
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> >> From Feb 2005 when it started its life in Yahoo! groups,
> > BangPypers
> >> mailing list - from its original form - has completed 10 years.
> >
> > Congratulations to this group. By reminding this, you just made
> > everyone, whoever joined early, feel old. It's been a long run and
> > group has been managed well.
>
> You've been there from the very beginning - no wonder you feel old.
> For a matter of fact, I feel like *very* old now :)
>
> Thank you for the positive comments. We've learned and grown with this
> list and it feels like an old friend now - which is the best thing
> about it at the end of day I feel.
>

Yeah, 10 years is quite long time. Let me see what all I can recollect from
those early meetups.

I attended my first bangpypers meetup in late 2005 (or may be early 2006).
It was at ThoughtWorks. I vaguely remember Anand Pillai,  Ramki (Redhat)
and a person called Tom from that meetup.

There used to be very interesting discussions those days. This guy Tom
built programming system called livelogic, that allows you a define you own
programming language on top of python using some kind of macro system. It
was really fascinating.

The website for live-logix is not there anymore, but you can find a copy of
it on the wayback machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061019042727/http://livelogix.net/logix/

It is really fascinating to see bangpypers come all the way here, becoming
such a big group!

Congratulations everyone!

Anand