yah, i wasn't belittling anyone really, just expressing that n people
divided among m conferences approaches n/m people at each conference.

-John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Guzdial [mailto:guzdial at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 5:00 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Oh dear. (RE: Squeak New England?! Re: SqueakEast?)
>
>
> Stephen Pair wrote me and suggested that we define a regular meeting,
> an annual event.  If we could define a handful (1? 2? 3?) of events
> like that, people could plan for that, and even 1-day drives aren't
> out of the question.  We might also think about having Squeak user's
> groups.
>
> Anyway, the Atlanta one wouldn't be only one person -- we have at
> least a dozen serious Squeakers here already, and we crank out about
> 300 Squeak-speaking Sophomores a year :-)
>
> Mark
>
> >Wow, this has really, truly gotten out of hand.  You know,
> everyone can have
> >the most conveniently located Squeak meeting, provided only one person is
> >expected to attend.  What I was hoping for was to aggregate, in
> a reasonably
> >geographically-centered location, a large portion of the people
> who thought
> >SqueakEnd was a really cool idea but for whom getting out to
> Santa Barbara
> >was just not going to happen.
> >
> >You know, if there is consensus from the GATech people, for example, to
> >drive up to Boston to have SqueakEast there, as well as our guy
> in Michigan,
> >and the people in Florida, hey, great, let's have it there.  I
> just figured
> >that Pittsburgh is a great place to do it for a few reasons:
> >
> >1. Relatively central location from Midwest, Canada, Northeast,
> southeast.
> >2. I can get my hands on some university space
> >3. Hotels are much cheaper than NY or Boston
> >
> >But, I'm sure you'll find that on the east coast we're not quite
> as densely
> >packed into one area as they are out west.  We have no Silicon Valley,
> >rather there is Boston, NYC, the Research Triangle, Atlanta, etc.  All of
> >these places are significant in the high-tech industries.
> >
> >I just think that if this whole thing fragments into SqNY,
> BaySqueak, Squeak
> >Triangle, Peach Squeak, etc., then the people who go to each individual
> >place are people who could have simply called each other up and asked if
> >they wanted to hang out at a coffee shop with their laptops.
> >
> >I've been in discussion with the people at Stage3, and Jeff
> Pierce said he'd
> >be interested in dropping by to work with interested people on
> Squeak Alice.
> >Of course, if the whole thing fragments, it'll be just Jeff and me, i.e.,
> >not worth it because i'm not as sophisticated as other people
> who could show
> >up.
> >
> >*Sigh*
> >
> >I don't know what to do...
> >-John
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cgundel at domainpharma.com [mailto:cgundel at domainpharma.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:45 PM
> > > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > > Subject: Squeak New England?! Re: SqueakEast?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, I'm here in Boston!  As you can see, Chris Norton is
> also close by.
> > > Where exactly do you live Ivan?
> > >
> > > Okay now, all you other Yanks can come out of hiding!  ;-)
> > >
> > > -Carl
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ivan Brusic <ibrusic at wsicorp.com>@wsicorp.com on 03/24/2000
> 02:27:05 PM
> > >
> > > Please respond to squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > >
> > > Sent by:  ivan at wsicorp.com
> > >
> > >
> > > To:   squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > > cc:
> > >
> > > Subject:  Re: SqueakEast?
> > >
> > >
> > > "Norton, Chris" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > As Andrew G. said...  I'd like to be there if I can fit it into my
> > > schedule
> > > > (May is a busy month for me!).  I wanted to go to STP's
> > > gathering, but CA
> > > is
> > > > just a bit far for me to hike!
> > > >
> > > > PS>  I'm from NH, 40min north of Boston.
> > >
> > > Well, it appears that the message I sent yesterday fell thru
> the cracks
> > > when the mail server went down.  Here it is again:
> > >
> > > Are there any Squeakers in the Northeast?  The Boston area is full of
> > > hi-tech companies, so surely there must be somebody.  I am
> willing to go
> > > to any SqueakEast event in the NYC or Boston areas, and will
> even travel
> > > to
> > > Montreal or Toronto if need be.  Pittsburgh?   Not quite the east I
> > > know. :)
> > >
> > > Ivan
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Ivan Brusic                          |  "Computers are nothing but a
> > > perfect
> > > E-mail: ibrusic at wsicorp.com          |   illusion of order" - Iggy Pop
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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