[Chicago] Chipy Thursday Meetup

[Daniel Peters]

Can we stop with the "if this becomes more about organization..."  line?  I
read this list everyday, and the *vast* majority of posts are of the order
"I've got a numpy array with x integers...." or " hey, does anybody know
how to compile cython on RHEL..?" .  Its not a big deal people.  At all.
 Stop acting like sorting out the fine print is in any way going to ruin
the party.


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Peter Fein <pete at wearpants.org> wrote:

>
> On Feb 11, 2014 9:36 PM, "Rob Kapteyn" <robkapteyn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The issue of governance has come up before, and IIRC, we pretty much
> agreed that -- as intelligent
> > adults with common interests -- we could spontaneously auto-organize on
> a deliberately Anarchist model.
>
> I'm 100% with you there, and my preference would be to return to a
> unstructured model. But if we are going to have formal structure, I'd like
> it to be  decent, transparent & minimal.
>
> > IMHO -- this is the only thing that pushed Brian (reluctantly) into
> becoming a sort of BDFL.
> > Things are more complicated today, because of the money that recruiters
> give us for food, subsidies we give
> > to students to go to PyCon, etc.
>
> Its a little more complicated than this, because Brian's been the driving
> force for fundraising to begin with. We could always have refused to take
> the money.
>
> Its no longer a BDFL when you have a formal structure like this, with
> officials who control the purse strings. And its been feeling a lot more D
> than B lately. ;-(
>
> > When he [Peter] used the word "fraudulent" I think he crossed a line.
>
> Perhaps "sketchy, deeply unethical, and legally shaky" would have been a
> better choice of words and I apologize for using the harsher term. See this
> among many similar citations
>
> http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/if-an-llc-in-il-is--involuntarily-dissolved--are-t-161641.htmlAnd since it seems to need clarification, IANAL ofc.
>
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