On 2/27/07, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Neat, a new group. Any reason you guys didn't want to put on a Saturday presentation for EUGLUG?
I can't speak for others, but I wasn't aware of a "Saturday presentation" possibility for Euglug. Is the subject area of that group divergent?
(ie, more MS-heavy, or simply all-inclusive?) Is it really only meant for IT professionals, or do you also welcome wanna-be's, students, etc? Is it an anti-ranting group?
The little tag-line on the website sums it up pretty well, "Group therapy for people doing real work with computers" in that we are trying to provide a forum for people who work in IT, regardless of heir specific discipline. MS, Linux, DBA, programmer, whatever... Our intent is to provide things that will be of interest to a wide range of people and try to get people to break out of their "silos" a little. It seems to me that there is a lot of IT happening in Eugene in schools, hospitals, banks, private industry, etc, and there is little cross-over from one vertical to another. We hope to change that and get more people from more diverse backgrounds talking to eachother.
Thanks in advance for the info, and for setting up this group. Just seeking some clarifications... we used to have nice informal lunch meetings, which didn't include presentations but plenty of ad-hoc discussion on the state of IT, professional-environment steam-blowoff, etc. I miss that :)
Hopefully the proforum meetings can provide some of that.
Also - who are the founders you mention. As feedback, it comes across that the discussions were somewhat private, closed-door affairs, since I've been doing IT in this area for over 5 years now and hadn't heard of the group or your discussions until now. On the flip side, it is nice, frankly, so see that you've established some organization, instead of yet another call for interest that doesn't bear any fruit ;)
Well, as I mentioned this is something of an "itch" I've had since I moved to the area in 2001 or so. About a year ago it got "serious" during a discussion that I had with Hal Pomeranz. We both saw a need for this sort of group and decided that we needed to do something about it. In December / January it came up again and we identified a few people we knew in the community who we thought would be good drivers for such an effort. We ended up working with Matt Jarvis, Mike Cherba, and Toby Person to do the initial planning. We were quiet about it the initial planning simply because we wanted to avoid the "noise with no substance" phenomena that you alluded to. Looking forward to seeing you at the first meeting. :) -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman- _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
