I spent some time today reviewing several LUGs in large cities around the USA. They don't hold a candle to PLUG. Their meetings are totally lame. The mailing lists are stagnate. I couldn't find even ONE top-post flame fest. Most sites didn't have any updates newer than 2012. So that got me thinking...
The community is what makes a LUG work. Any participation helps make that community stronger. You don't have to write a single line of code to help it grow. Since everyone on this list is a major contributor to PLUG not sucking - I'd like to thank you all. So - um - THANK YOU! You make PLUG work, and PLUG needs to work for you: http://plug.org/node/130 Some shout-outs to the people that made our community rock in 2013. * Steve Meyers for leading the charge with amazing consistency. * Doran Barton for sharing the video love (seriously great!). * Levi Pearson for writing a bazillion paragraphs on language design in 2013 alone (it scares me how smart you are). * S. Dale Morrey for starting the most threads _in the history of the Internet_. * Joseph Hall for that cake he made in 2006. Best cake ever. You get 10 years of shout-outs for that one. * Our founders, Thayne Harbaugh and Mike Handy. * All the other contributors, past PLUG presidents, and others who have made this place what it is. I have the opportunity to work with Thayne and Mike's brother Matt here at Adobe. Great Engineers! It is amazing that this was the best they could do in 1996 - from the wayyyyyback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/19961231223952/http://plug.org/ I guess they've gotten a little better at their jobs in the last 18 years. ;-) -Ryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
