[Baypiggies] Holy Thursday

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

Dennis,

I do recommend watching "Snakes and Rubies"; however, that can be done
whenever.  I really like the Bay Piggies meetings.  Some are good. 
Some are not so good.  That's fine.  I'd like to do my part toward
making the best of them.  That means I'll be hosting a meeting at
IronPort on Thursday, even if it's just me.  I'd also be very happy to
give my talk <http://ironorchid.com/jjinux/articles/professional_software_engineering/>.
 Feel free to email me privately if you think I'm a bozo, but I think
this could lead to interesting discussion.  Aahz, it'd be nice if you
came if only so that I could a) remember what you look like b) say hi.

Let's start defusing all this negative list energy.  This is silly.

By the way, I'll be happy to answer newbie questions on Thursday night too :)

-jj

On 4/10/06, Dennis Reinhardt <DennisR at dair.com> wrote:
> At 03:23 PM 4/10/2006, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> >I'm having a difficult time with the
> >fact that I have to host the talk, yet I'm obligated to go to Holy
> >Thursday mass which is at about the same time.
>
> So, lemme re-cap how Thur night is shaping up:
>
>          1) no technical talk
>          2) a "futures" discussion which may go somewhere/may not
>          3) room arrangements in flux with a conflict in
>               duties for some or many
>
> Let me suggest an alternative here: we cancel our physical meeting Thur
> night at IronPort.  Instead, we split the agenda in two:
>
>          1) We have a "virtual" meeting Thur night, viewing the
>          3 hours of material at
>          http://www.snakesandrubies.com/ provided by JJ.  This can
>          then be discussed here on the list.
>
>          2) We hold an "organizing" meeting in a convenient restaurant
>          venue.  In the IEEE Computer Society, we held our meetings at
>         Jing Jing (http://www.themenupage.com/jingjing.html) and I
>          have found it conducive to holding discussions for up to 4-10
>          people.  I am volunteering to coordinate this meeting.  The
>          outcome (if any) of this organizing meeting would be posted
>          back here for comment.
>
>          If/as there is critical mass for an organizing meeting,
>          set-up details would go off-list here to un-hijack this list.
>
> Maybe I am just a gear-head but (1) sounds like the best of my 3 hours of
> my coming Thur. night.  (2) needs to be done and having a dedicated
> face-to-face among those focusing on this topic may show the most results.