Thursday meeting venue?

[cubiclegrrl]

Hey, folks:

We're coming up on the monthly meeting, and I was wondering where we'd
want to meet.

Cheers,

Doreen

[Matthew Metzger]

Hello all,

I have the key to my new place, but not furniture or internet yet. Is
anyone presenting (is it my turn, and I forgot)?

talk to you soon,

Matthew

[Brian Hopkins]

Hi,

I just returned from my travels..

Im not prepared to present, but the back room is reasonably open, but messy.

I see that We lost peaberries.


Brian

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Handi Gadgets Corp.
Brian Hopkins
608-785-0310
608-785-0315, Fax
P.O. Box 0938
La Crosse WI 54602-0938

[cubiclegrrl]

Matthew:

I had the last presentation at Peaberry's; Your brother Ben stepped in
for the Q&A about the UW-L CS program when Matt Swank bowed out, and
Brian did the presentation before then on the markup language he
invented for the websites he maintains. Sorry, dude, but I'm pretty
sure you're in the bulls-eye. :~( Correct me if I have the sequence
of events wrong, of course--you won't upset what remains of the
History major, I promise.

I haven't done bupkis with Derby (an open-source Java-based database)
in months, so I can't show off what I've been working on in fits and
starts. Hopefully by Sept. or Oct.?

Thanks,

Doreen

[Matthew Metzger]

Hello,

the only thing that I have to show off is my new space on 7th Street. We
could do another group reflection session and strategy (what we want out
of it, influencing the LUG, et cetera).

I would also like to eventually reschedule the date of our group meeting
as it conflicts with a Literary social group that also meets on the
second Thursday of each month.

I very much appreciated encouragement I've received from our little
group. We got started (refined with good food at Doreen's) at the same
time that I launched Orange Computer. Your ideas for our group's
continued existence would be much appreciated.

hope to hear from you soon,

[cubiclegrrl]

Folks:

If no set topic is planned for the evening, I'd prefer not to impose
upon Brian's hospitality. Naturally, if Brian really, *really* feels
like having company, that's another thing entirely. I just won't be
able to throw together anything before then. *If* I can avoid being
sucked into the latest artificial--and entirely management-induced--
crisis at work and *if* seriously get my lazy backside in gear, I
~might~ have something to show, come Sept.

I don't want to sound like I'm trivializing the importance of everyone
understanding what everyone else wants, but this group is largely
oriented around "doing stuff." So if there's nothing that can be
shared at a given time, my feeling is that our respective evening is
better spent on our own projects than re-hashing what's already been
discussed, and relatively recently.

I may be a bit a-typical, because a large part of this group's draw
for me is the focus on an immediate solution to an immediate problem
that (mercifully) does *not* involve squabbles over "architecture" and
"infrastructure" and "synergies" in Groundhogs Day-type meetings, or
pie-in-the-sky blathering about "scaling" into "the cloud" or
devolution into dogmatic food-fights over SourceSafe vs. Subversion--
or such things that I already spend 40 hours a week dealing with in
Cubeville. Call it escapism if you want; I won't say you're wrong. I
seriously hope you never have to know how liberating it is to see
somebody hack out a Point-A-to-Point-B solution without someone
standing over them telling them that it's not compatible with the code-
base, or it's not aligned with the strategic objectives, or that the
bean-counters will never approve of it.

But that's where I'm coming from--my tuppence-worth, take it as you
will. Thanks for hearing me out.

Doreen

[Matthew Metzger]

Hello,

Doreen, your email essay was inspiring. Yes, our group is about doing
stuff without having to worry about if it is done in the "approved" way.
I think it is okay to admit that we haven't been doing anything
worthwhile to share. I also agree about not wasting time rehashing
what's already been done.

In that line of thought, I propose that we change our meeting time to
the 4th or 1st Thursday of every month. If we decide, it can go into
effect immediately and we won't meet this week. That'll give time for
one of us to have something worthwhile to show and tell.

Funny corporate aside: My brother Ben, at his internship, has been
assigned to convert a program from C++ to C# for no other reason that
the company is "migrating platforms". I guess they have to have
something for interns to do.

[cubiclegrrl]

I will see you folks *next* Thursday at the LUG, then. For
rescheduling, I don't have a horse in the race, unless we start taking
turns hosting and the meeting occasionally lands at my place. Brian?
Your social/professional life is considerably fuller than mine--what
are your thoughts on the timing?

Thanks,

Doreen

[Brian Hopkins]

"Im with you fellas"

(Delmar O' Donnell, O Brother, Where Art Thou?)

Brian

[Brian Hopkins]

Ok,

1) No meeting This thurs... (Got it)

2) Probably meeting next Thurs, same time/place as LUG, or alternative to LUG?? (dont got it)

3) PUG is generally "Good", but still needs Topical "topic or goal to be worthwhile. (got it)

4) Point a-b ... good, Corporate weinies .... Bad. (Got it)

did I miss anything?


Brian

[cubiclegrrl]

Brian:

I meant I'd hopefully see you guyzos at the LUG. The date of the next
meeting is, to my understanding, still up in the air. Sorry for the
confusion.

Cheers,

Doreen