[Chicago] Chipy Thursday Meetup

[Jason Wirth]

Japhy: "...bring the boys to the yard."

+1 for milkshakes




On Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Japhy Bartlett <japhy at pearachute.com>
wrote:

> No for real, what if you wrote python instead of legalese with your finite
> time.
>
> What is the direst, apocalyptic, worst case scenario if Chipy doesn't have
> a code of conduct?
>
> It's a meme because a statistically significant number of people think
> this is funny.
>
> I'm saying, honestly, in my opinion, the general metric for success of a
> recurring event is attendance, and a group legalese discussion is not going
> to bring the boys to the yard.
>
> I have a dream, that one day, this list is about python again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Japhy
>
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2014, Daniel Peters <danieltpeters at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> So, not to be a dick. but that meme sucks man.  governance, positions and
> elections may be boring, but they're also a necessity in the real world.
>  I'm not for electing anyone to anything at the moment, its not really
> necessary, but just shitting on the conversation from the list recently
> doesn't really help.  As to talks not being interesting or well prepared,
> well....its an organic user group, and that means less polish and what
> might not be interesting to you (or whoever happens to be complaining to
> you) could very well be incredibly interesting to someone else.
>
> I've spent a good deal of time visiting other user groups around the city
> (ruby, postgres, js, etc) and this one is .....unique.  The average level
> of knowledge (computation/maths/tech in general) is simply higher, the
> people are friendly, there's a much higher concentration of academics (cool
> to me) and professional scientists (also very cool to me).  I'm a nobody in
> the python world, literally. I've been to a few pycons, etc, but there are *multiple
> *dedicated python core devs in chicago, and sometimes they even come to
> meetings and its nice to be able to meet them in person and chat.   If we
> need to do some seemingly tedious work
> (volunteering/bylaws/fill-in-necessary-organizational-task) *at the
> meeting* where its transparent and we can avoid the sort of dust-ups that
> come as a result of email exchanges on a list then lets do that.  Its worth
> it.
>
> +1 for group discussion on governance.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Japhy Bartlett <japhy at pearachute.com>wrote:
>
> -1 to elections, positions, governance, everything on this list lately:
>
>
> http://www.quickmeme.com/img/68/6890238a19f066b77cd019a1540447ce13036ca427bf1384555bfc847c51596a.jpg
>
> Biggest criticism I consistently hear about Chipy: the talks are not very
> interesting and not very well prepared.  Maybe you could spend 30 minutes
> coming up with talk ideas, since the group seems to be short again this
> month.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:11 PM, JP Bader <jp at zavteq.com> wrote:
>
> Elections? What would we be electing? What platforms are people running on?
>
> I digress.
>
> -1 for elections.
> +1 for a discussion about our group's governance.
>
> JP
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:03 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Here are my discussion votes:
>
>
> Pete running discussion about group governance, +1 (it's a good idea and I
> added it to the agenda on chipy.org).
>
> Elections Thursday, -1.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Peter requested we talk about getting organized and I'm supportive of the
> idea.
>
> So let's hold elections Thursday.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm in Texas right now and might get stuck here so someone
> else (Peter?) will have to run these if I don't make it.
>
> Cheers, Brian
>
> Ps wouldn't worry to much about the state of Illinois listing. It's
> already taken care of and has nothing to do with the bank account.
>
>
>
> --
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> @brianray
> (773) 669-7717
>
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