Thank you! On Wednesday 02 March 2005 05:34 pm, Frederick D. S. Marshall wrote: > Dear Nancy, > > To address your original question, I agree with your reasoning about the > need for a revived MDC in some form. I will schedule an MDC Revival > session at the Boston meeting to discuss how best to proceed. We can > treat it as a brainstorming jam session in which we first list what > worked and what did not in the original MDC format, and then identify > the best choice for how to resume work. > > With that in mind, we very much need to invite the MDC clan to this > meeting to bring perspective to our brainstorming. Many of them will be > interested in attending NEMUG's +$H=60000 celebration anyway, so we > should have a good turnout at the session. For that matter, we should > invite NEMUG as well to the MDC Revival brainstorm. If we schedule the > brainstorm for Saturday afternoon, it will flow naturally into the > evening's celebration. > > Yours truly, > Rick > > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:47, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > > Gee Greg, seems it was so easy you could do it in your sleep. SOOO, what > > is the problem? ;-) > > > > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:36 am, Greg Woodhouse wrote: > > > What bothers me about this argument is that I believe any competent > > > programmer ought to be able to pick up a new language if the need > > > arises. (The first time I ever heard of MUMPS was in my initial job > > > interview!) > > > > > > Okay, to be honest learning MUMPS wasn't that easy: I was taking Greg > > > Kreis' MUMPS class and struggling with a homework assignment. One > > > night, I went home and had a dream in which I saw the source code in > > > front of me. I went in the next morning, typed it in and it ran > > > perfectly! Learning a language does involve some struggle bedfore the > > > "Aha!" moment comes, but it does come. > > > > > > --- steven mcphelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > RE: [Hardhats-members] MDC RevivalI believe Cameron's statement about > > > > the VA management not being able to back off of migrating to a newer > > > > platform is probably very close to the truth. However, I am sure > > > > that there were some real business management decisions made (or at > > > > least I hope so). I saw an article recently that estimated that > > > > 40-50% of the current VA IT staff will be retiring in the next 5 > > > > years. If I was a manager of VA IT I would be very concerned about > > > > that. I would seriously consider moving my technology to a platform > > > > that enables me to recruit competent IT staff without having to rely > > > > on in-house training for the next generation of VA IT support. I > > > > would even consider technology that is inferior to my current > > > > technology as long as the new technology meets my needs and gives me > > > > greater flexibilty in personnel matters or provide me the opportunity > > > > to competitively outsource some IT functions. > > > > > > ===== > > > A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. > > > --Benjamin Disraeli ==== > > > Greg Woodhouse > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real > > > users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading > > > now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
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