The fewer we have, the better chance of getting somebody
from Squeak Central.

I don't care about the location (lots of frequent flyer miles
[oh boy, another opportunity to fly]).

I can't go anywhere until after May though.

-david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Duncan [mailto:jddst19+ at pitt.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 3:16 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Oh dear. (RE: Squeak New England?! Re: SqueakEast?)
> 
> 
> 
> 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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