On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Lee Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe we consider bringing it in line with how many other Python groups >> call themselves. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups > > "Python User Groups are sometimes called PIGgies, for Python Interest Group > meetings. The term PIGgies was coined by the Bay Area PIGgies group." > > So, do you want SeaPUG instead of SeaPIG?
I have always preferred "users group" over "interest group", but Python groups were usually called interest groups when SeaPIG was formed in 2000, so we just followed suit. Plus, our mascot is a sea pig, a creature which I'm still not sure whether it exists but there's a photo of it somewhere in the wiki, although it may have been lost in one of the server moves. seapug.org is the Seattle Postgres Users Group. SeaPIG has never been formal enough to care much about the name or to make a marketing campaign using it. The list is "seattle-python". I sometimes type "seapy" in my mailer and it doesn't work. But seapig.org is widely known and linked to, so i'd hesitate to change the domain name. In general I think it's more worth focusing on what we do than on what the name should be. Higher on my priority list would be to spiff up the wiki so it looks more purdy-like, and to organize the past meeting notes and fill in some of the gaps so they could be more of a reference. Those are a bit difficult in the MoinMoin structure, but when I last asked about moving away from Moin the majority opinion was to keep it because it gets the job done. Still, the site could probably be improved. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
