I only start'em cuz no one else does and I can't stand a quiet room :) FYI I'm nominating PLUG to be the recipient of Orgcoin's first endowment. Stay tuned for my announcement on Orgcoin.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Simpkins <p...@ryansimpkins.com>wrote: > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
