Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
OK. Not my intention to start a flame war, but as DFW did not mean a thing to me (other than being my late father in law's initials) I was a bit peeved about the assumption that everybody would understand it. I think posts which are essentially local should make this clear to all in the title. I hope the meeting goes well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
Short answer: DFW = Dallas-Fort Worth Longer answer: I'm not pointing fingers or making opinions, I just wanted to point out that after reading Jeff's original email (in its entirity), I found: Jeff wrote: > at the usual location of Nerdbooks.com bookstore in Richardson. For So, after looking at Nerdbooks.com, they're in Richardson, TX. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1681+Firman+Drive,+richardson,+t x&sll=37.0625,-95.677071&sspn=31.371289,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=32.876127,- 96.792297&spn=0.259504,0.466919&z=11&om=1 > By the way, I've been contacted by a developer at the Travelocity Dallas > office, who is looking for local Python developers with experience in Django > or Genshi. If you're interested, let me know and I can put you in touch. Otherwise, after reading to this point in his email (and not knowing what DFW was), I'd guess that they're near Dallas. > -Original Message- > Subject: Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday > > > Precisely what? You complained that the OP didn't provide > the location > > of the event, which he did. > > Well, where is DFW? > -- > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Joe Riopel wrote: > >>> Precisely what? You complained that the OP didn't provide the location >>> of the event, which he did. >> >> Well, where is DFW? > >Google, first hit: > >The Dallas Ft. Worth Pythoneers > >They even have their own website. So - what's the fuss about? The BayPIGgies >also announce their meetings here. I don't mind, even though Berlin is >about 10-12 hours away on a jet-plane. . . . The upset surprises me, too. I appreciate people who esteem Usenet enough to help "police" specific newsgroups, discouraging traffic in marginal content best handled elsewhere. On the other hand, comp.lang.python has a tradition of productive announcements of local events, "DFW" is both *very* meaningful to the target audience, and, as noted, 'bout as easy to decipher with the help of Google as anything can be. Beyond all that, there's particular value in announcements like this because they *are* of regional, rather than local, significance. By that I mean I know of several cases where Pythoneers from somewhere else in the US (or even, in a couple of cases, other countries) have been traveling, and found it possible to schedule a visit with a local interest group. That's neat! Dallas gets a lot of traffic because it's an airline hub, and close moreover to fellow computing-industry centers in Austin and Houston (and, to a lesser extent, San Antonio and El Paso). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
Joe Riopel wrote: >> Precisely what? You complained that the OP didn't provide the location >> of the event, which he did. > > Well, where is DFW? Google, first hit: The Dallas Ft. Worth Pythoneers They even have their own website. So - what's the fuss about? The BayPIGgies also announce their meetings here. I don't mind, even though Berlin is about 10-12 hours away on a jet-plane. diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
> Precisely what? You complained that the OP didn't provide the location > of the event, which he did. Well, where is DFW? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
peter wrote: >> It says right in the subject line! DFW. If you don't know what DFW >> means, then it's probably not your local area. > > Precisely Precisely what? You complained that the OP didn't provide the location of the event, which he did. You also resorted to needless name-calling as a result of your mistake, which I don't think enhances the usefulness of this forum. What exactly are you trying to achieve? -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
> It says right in the subject line! DFW. If you don't know what DFW > means, then it's probably not your local area. Precisely -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
peter wrote: > Just a tad arrogant, don't you think, to put a notice of some local > event on an international forum without saying where it is? It says right in the subject line! DFW. If you don't know what DFW means, then it's probably not your local area. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: DFW Pythoneers Meeting THIS Saturday
Just a tad arrogant, don't you think, to put a notice of some local event on an international forum without saying where it is? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
