[Chicago] meeting time should not vary

[Carl Karsten]

I suggest you do what the VFP group did: appoint a person to be responsible for 
making decisions.   Steeling the ubuntu term: SABDFL - Self Appointed Benevolent 
Dictator For Life, only the 5 of us that were generally doing the "lets figure 
out next month's meeting" meeting forced the position on Bill cuz he seemed to 
care the most.  no paper work, not Federal ID's, no tax exempt status.  Just an 
understanding that Bill has the final say.

We have a list, and things normally go like this:  I think we should do X or Y. 
  We need to know by Z.  Bill, what do you think?  Within a day or 2, Bill 
answers and we move on.  in the 5+ years we have been doing this, I don't think 
anyone has had a problem with it.

It really has nothing to do with wizdom, but more who feels to being bothered 
every month or so about something that they need to pay attention to.

No, you can not elect me.  Not this week anyway.

Carl



Michael Tobis wrote:
> I had a similar problem with Loyola. In the end it was too problematic
> to meet at Loyola because their bureaucracy needed some other
> bureaucracy to deal with.
> 
> See, ChiPy is not actually, for legal purposes, a real organization.
> So nobody is "responsible". We are just a bunch of people who get
> together sometimes.
> 
> It may be necessary to actually formally create a PyCon-In-Chicago
> organization at some point. So far, though, we have been spending our
> efforts on interesting conversation and not on bureaucracy. We have
> all been blissfully non-responsible all along, and we have had some
> remarkably excellent meetings all the same.
> 
> mt
> 
> On 11/7/06, Peter K Chan <peter at oaktop.com> wrote:
>> According to my contact from DePaul, we just need a request submitted
>> from a faculty/staff and approval from the Dean. This part should not be
>> difficult.
>>
>> What we do need is a responsible person and a date for the next meeting.
>> I can make contacts, but I am unable to be that person, since I am
>> neither a faculty nor a regular Chipier.
>>
>> I am confused by working with the mailing list. If ChiPy would like to
>> explore meeting at DePaul, *someone* please email me directly at
>> peter at oaktop.com and I will be happy to help.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: chicago-bounces at python.org [mailto:chicago-bounces at python.org] On
>> Behalf Of Brian Ray
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:55 AM
>> To: The Chicago Python Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Chicago] meeting time should not vary
>>
>> Opps, I meant to send this to the list.
>>
>> Anyway, as you see by now, we are having both meetings. See, more is
>> more...
>>
>> Next month lets shoot for DePaul.     ...                 And lets
>> Plan Ahea
>> d
>>
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Brian Ray wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 7, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Michael Tobis wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it would be
>>>> best for ChiPy to take jake up on the dai5ychain offer for Thursday
>>>> and Fawad up for Thursday as well.
>>> Sorry Carl, I think mt is right.
>>>
>>> We went offline last night and tried to work out the details.  Here
>>> is what I would like to do:
>>>
>>> * try to use the dai5ychail option and fawad for our regular
>>> meeting thursday. I will send out the notice.
>>> * hold a Special Meeting to join Ed Leafe and gang for next Tuesday.
>>>
>>> This way we will not break our important ChiPy schedule and still
>>> give some attention to Ed, Carl, and crew.
>>>
>>> Sound good?
>>>
>>> Brian Ray
>>> http://kazavoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>> PS. I am contacting Jake off the list to get some venue details.
>>>
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