I see Kin's proposal as open to all levels of users. The kayaking simile is cute and there is room enough for all of us on the lake. It is quiet on the lake, we can hear each other.
Again, I see this as separate from gatherings like progsig. The synergy and valence type energy could help revitalize all of it though. Who should attend? Everyone who has an inkling (from the newest user to the deepest code weaver), just bring your imagination and thoughts! (My opinion, so far :) Mel On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:40 -0600, Kin Wong wrote: > If the group decides on that path, that too would be good. I was only > thinking from a point of a lowly user as programming is beyond my > personal competence. If the road develops and people want to follow it > - all is good. > > With regards to objectives, great suggestion. The number of people, the > breadth of interest and our personal time available will dictate the > projects. Personally I am more interested in low hanging fruit, nothing > that will take longer than a month or two. I am interested in things > that will augment what I am currently doing. > > Mel started the year by saying that this will be the year of the user. > I personally resonate with that, and am paddling my kayak in that > direction. If others are heading in the same direction, I'll get a > bigger canoe, otherwise kayaking as a group is a lot of fun too. > > Your welcome to paddle the programming kayak if you are so inclined. > > On 4/8/2011 9:21 AM, Shawn wrote: > > Task number one for such a group is to define an objective. i.e. Fix > > application X so that it does Y. Or create driver for hardware Z. > > > > Having a small set of these objectives would be better than having a > > lot, or having none. > > > > Without these objectives, the meetings would become more social > > oriented than working oriented. > > > > My thoughts. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
