[Chicago] ChiPy Organizers Meeting

sheila miguez shekay at pobox.com
Wed Feb 19 22:07:31 CET 2014


I disagree.

Here is a counter example.

I consider Cezar a valid member of the group. I do not remember how many
meetings he has attended in the past year. He helps maintain chipy.org and
the mailing list. He lives in some far out suburb.





On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Peter Halliday <pjh239 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> I don't think of these as exclusionary.  The bar has to be reasonably set.
>  It's good for the group that the organization protect itself from people
> who may not have the groups best interest in mind.  How do you do that?  By
> providing some sort of proof.  I think that attendance and public proof
> limits are reasonable.  I also write most of my code privately, but it's
> very easy to have a public code on github.  Maybe code could be shared
> under an NDA as proof too, but that gets problematic too.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2014, at 2:47 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey all:
> >>
> >> I am holding an online meeting for those who expressing interest in help
> >> organize ChiPy Every Sunday at 11am. It will be done Google Hangout.
> >>
> >> If you wish on attending, send me your email. Anyone is welcome provided
> >> that:
> >>
> >> You're an active Python developer with at least one public available
> example
> >> of work
> >
> > This excludes a lot of people for no good reason. Plenty of good
> > people write closed source code at work and don't contribute code
> > outside of work, but they're valid community members. Plenty of good
> > students or beginners haven't gotten to the point where they're
> > writing public code.
> >
> >> You have attended at least 9 ChiPy meetings in the last 12 months.
> >
> > This excludes a lot of people who would like to make a change
> > *because* there haven't been 9 meetings they wanted to attend.
> >
> >> You live in the greater Chicago land area and plan on staying here for
> the
> >> next 12 months
> >>
> >> You plan on attending the meeting every week, missing no more than 2 a
> >> month.
> >>
> >>
> >> We will verify these above details at the beginning of every meeting.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > ps. Hangouts only work for groups of 10 people or less.
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sheila
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