Phil,
I respect your opinion greatly, and I'm sure it could work either way.
But to say it plainly, I'd prefer a "blank slate" philosophy. While I
am sure there may be some duplication of effort, I think there's a
lot of "legacy code of the mind" (if there is such a thing) in the
PDX Ruby group. Whereas my goals for this new group are simple,
agile, small, and fun! Fresh and new, and operating without a net,
or, an "umbrella," if you will.
And there's other reasons that are not particularly important. What
is important is that I make it clear that this is not in reaction to
anything that's happened on the group lately, but rather something
I've wanted to start up for many months. I hope everyone can dig
where I'm coming from.
Cheers,
Raymond
p.s. Please do write me offlist if there are specific concerns you
have that I'm not addressing!
On Sep 16, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:
Raymond,
It seemed as though things were heading this way, however, I still
hold out hope that we could have something more cohesive. What I mean
is, I could certainly see pdxrails as being a SIG (Special Interest
Group) of pdxruby. Then we wouldn't have a duplication of websites,
mailing lists, effort, etc.
After all, where would Rails be without Ruby? And of course Ruby has
gotten a popularity boost from Rails.
I definitely think that two different meeting a month would be a good
thing: one oriented towards general Ruby topics and another very
Rails/Web-development oriented, but both could be under the umbrella
of pdxruby (and even a third which is oriented towards codefests kind
of like what we're doing tomorrow). For an example: The Portland Mac
group which has several meetings each month each oriented towards
special interests, but all under the same umbrella (same website
infrastructure, etc.)
What do you think, would it work?
Phil
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