Let us face reality
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Jan 28 14:43:15 UTC 2005
> I for one are usually not in a position to fund travel for Squeak;
> neither time-wise nor money-wise. Maybe, now that I am making actual
> money with it, this changes. But I think - alas - that most of us are
> doing this as a hobby which sorts of limits travel possibilities.
>
> Is that bad? Given all the more-or-less succesful open source projects
> I've been in where I never met anyone, I wouldn't necessarily say so.
> IRC, mail, websites are of course crutches when compared to personal
> communications, but they seem to work reasonably well between
> reasonable people. And, given your experience with trying to organize
> real life meetings, probably all we've got for the foreseeable future.
> It's very suboptimal, I know that, but I think it's a fact of life.
>
> (really, I'd *love* to see a yearly Squeak meeting take place with
> hundreds of Squeakers; the best thing about my Java time surely was
> the yearly trip to JavaOne. But I don't think it's going to happen
> anytime soon, and until that time I going to have make do with
> visiting people whenever I have time or whenever the occasion arises.
> I met some Squeakers in Berlin when I had some event I forgot there
> (ah - Zope BBQ, just remembered before pressing Send ;)); I'm glad Avi
> lives in Utrecht now; and next time I'm in .CH and not preoccupied
> with motorcycling through the mountains I'd love to go for a beer with
> you guys in Bern. I cherish such moments, and they help a lot in
> subsequent cooperation-over-the-net).
You are welcomed.
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