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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