Oh dear. (RE: Squeak New England?! Re: SqueakEast?)

Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) Jarvisb at timken.com
Mon Mar 27 16:42:23 UTC 2000


At home I have local phone service to Cleveland, but the town I live in is
considered part of the greater Akron area, but I'm sitting in Canton typing
this.  Oh dear...  :-)

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Wessels [SMTP:stephan.wessels at sdrc.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 24, 2000 5:27 PM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Re: Oh dear. (RE: Squeak New England?! Re: SqueakEast?)
> 
> I'm in Cincinnati, OH.
> 
>  - Steve
> 
> cgundel at domainpharma.com wrote:
> 
> > Ouch.  Sorry about that.  I'm certainly willing to try to make it for a
> > Pittsburgh location.
> >
> > I must say however that this thread has already been useful for
> discovering
> > two more Squeakers in my area.  ;-)
> >
> > -Carl
> >
> > "John Duncan" <jddst19+ at pitt.edu> on 03/24/2000 03:16:14 PM
> >
> > Please respond to squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> >
> > To:   <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> > cc:
> >
> > 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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