[PYTHON META-SIG] would-be pattern-sig cont'd

Dinu Gherman Dinu Gherman <gherman@embl-heidelberg.de>
Wed, 2 Apr 97 13:27:09 +0100


Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
> I like this new one a /lot/ more, mostly because it is dramatically
> shorter.  However, it still contains a lot of unnecessary verbage
> relating to time management and professional advice.  I would like to
> see much of that chopped, just as indicated in my former post.  By
> that point the charter would be getting /really/ short, so perhaps it
> would be okay to actually /add/ some additional technical content.
>
> > Proposal: Pattern-SIG Mission Statement (#2)
> >
> > PATTERN-SIG, a Special Interest Group for using Python with
> > emphasis on idioms, patterns and frameworks.

Once again, I am extremely sorry in case anybody else feels
offended the way Geoffrey does. I agree with most of his
criticism, although it's sometimes quite tough, but that's
ok. After all, that's how you learn. ;-)

Again, this proposal was just that: a proposal. I know it was
not perfect at all, but I also wonder why it took 2-3 weeks
to get a comment like this? It's true that wording is very
important, but then, we're dealing with a would-be SIG's
Majordomo mailing list's 'mission statement' rather than with
the UN Charter.

Part of the reason for Geoffrey's critique is indeed that
when writing the first draft of this statement, I had too
much in mind those of the pattern community that have no idea
of Python (yet). I still hope the Python community is gladly
embracing people that can bring something of value to them as
well as vice versa. And for whatever further activities
between both, I wish not to be proven wrong on this point.

Regards,

Dinu

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