I promise that this is the last time I'll cross-post (and hopefully, the last time I'll post to the old kohalabs list, except to deal with issues related to migrating away from it). However, I just want to make sure this reaches as many people in the Portland Ruby community as possible.
It's my sincere hope that the angry, hurt tone I've heard in a few recent mailing list messages is isolated to just those few people who have expressed such strong feelings about the recent activity surrounding the website, mailing list, etc. Just in case, though, I want to offer a heartfelt plea with everyone to please, please, please just take a deep breath, relax, and remember that we're all on the same side here. There is no "inner circle" hatching sinister plots to take over the group. Any changes which of we should "take heed" are simply a handful of members volunteering to do work that needs to be done, such as updating the website, moving the mailing list to a more discoverable and permanent domain, and establishing some sane practices for version control, administration, etc. If anyone wants to be help, please just say so. Yes, it is helpful if you show up in person, because this is first and foremost a local, face-to-face sort of group. If you offer assistance and no one takes you up on it, do not assume you're being excluded; we're all busy people, and for most of us, this group is pretty low on the priority scale 95% of the time. So, to recap for those playing along at home: The web server, mailing list, and infrastructure for the upcoming hackfest have been generously donated by Robby, and are being hosted from a system on his network (Planet Argon). If you want to contribute to the web page, or be a list moderator, or whatever, contact him, or join us in the IRC channel (#pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net). Thanks to John's GTD awesomeness, we have a date, (next Saturday the 17th) time, (all day, starting around 11am) and location (the "green room" at the Rose & Raindrop) for the website hackfest. It *will* be awesome, and I *will* be buying the first round of beers whenever people are ready to switch over from coffee. Aside from that, let's try to return to our regularly-scheduled programming, (pun intended) and have some fun! -Lennon _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
