On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Dan Chudnov <[email protected]> wrote:

> A point of history:
>
> Over the years several regional code4lib groups formed and some wanted to 
> have their own lists.  When such suggestions have been made on this list, 
> those suggestions have often been resisted, because of the success we had 
> originally collapsing (combining?) people who wanted to talk about code and 
> libraries into one big list.  Maybe some resistance to seeing a 
> code4lib4women activity broken out is similar to that.  I feel that 
> resistance; maybe I'm not the only one.

I was going to say this too.  I'm pretty sure over the years there has
been resistance to breaking out (for the regionals as well as for
particular languages and technologies).  I think it's a cycle...
things come together, then they pull apart... it's ongoing.  I don't
think this particular idea has met any more resistance than any of the
others in the past.  I also don't feel strongly that we need to have a
strong central point.  Let ten thousand Code4Lib flowers bloom...

Kevin

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