[SGVLUG] Fw: [Re: Talk?]

[Greg Stark]

Observation:
[devsig] meets the Saturday before the general meeting.  It is a
programmer/programming oriented gathering.

Thought evolving to Suggestion: [devsig] presents an overview and focus on
Haskell and OCaml. [general meeting] presents Linspire ....

Those who want to know will show up.

Greg

PS: I don't know anything about Haskell and OCaml.

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Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Fw: [Re: Talk?]

Michael Proctor-Smith wrote ..
> You know I maybe excommunicated for this but I really getting tired of
> all the but new people will not like subject X when people suggest
> advanced subjects.

     I guess I'm one of the new guys; worse, I'm not even a hacker, just a
schoolteacher.  But mere ignorance never yet kept a teacher quiet, so let me
comment.  I worked, by myself, on various personal Linux projects for
several years.  I could have saved a lot of trouble by getting involved with
a user group early on.  The value of the group is precisely that there are
so many characters who are head-and-shoulders above me from whom I can get
help.  It would _not_ be helpful to be gathering with other computationally
challenged friends and pooling our ignorance.

     The usefulness of the group is not so much in getting complete
explanations as in getting pointed in the right direction.  I can do the
follow-up myself.  If there is anything unsettling about presentation that
is over my head it is that I'm always taking and never able to give back.
But what I see so far is great; I hope you all keep on doing what you're
doing.

     I wouldn't go for excommunication.  Much less for burning at the stake.

John