Hi Jon, On 22/04/15 11:59, Jon Gould wrote:
> > Moving forward, I'll be looking for a couple of additional people to > help with the running of the event. Why? If you feel you don't have the time / energy, why continue to run it? What particular need do you feel DJUGL is serving? > There seems to be a negative impression of DJUGL from some quarters > based on it being solely run by a recruitment company, for those who > know me this is something I have worked hard over the last 7 years to > change the typical perception and become an active member of the > Django community. I've never seen you come to a London Django meetup - that was the one last night. Nor did I see you at any of the London Django coding sessions; nor the (recent) Django sprint. No one expects you to come to every possible event but *only* going to the ones that you put on indicates that your perception of the community is limited. Particularly if you've not been able to over the last 7 years. The "negative impression" is something I've heard many times; a number of speakers have resented that the fact that their presentation needed to be "vetted" for recruitment statements and they felt obliged not to say "we're hiring" in their presentations. > It's also a shame that there are several other Python/Django Meetups > happening this week. You wrote me a email complaining about that, but *why* is it a shame? I think it is something to celebrate that London has a sufficiently large Django community to be able to easily support two meetups during the week. I know plenty of people who are going to both; it seems like a win for the community to have choice. Anand -- “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
