[cap-talk] Capabilities SIG meetings in Silicon Valley?

[Russell Whitaker]

On 1/8/07, Mark S. Miller <markm at cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Russell Whitaker wrote:
> > Howdy!  I've been lurking the last week or so since I subscribed to
> > this list.  I'm very happy to see some old friends and acquaintances
> > here.
>
> Hi Russell, good to have you join us!
>

Good to be among you!

>
> > The reason I'm breaking silence right now is to ask if anyone would be
> > interested in having regular, monthly meetings of a "Capabilities SIG"
> > (or some other, better name) hosted at Google's main campus in Mt.
> > View, California... would this be welcomed?
>
> Currently, much of the local capabilities crowd gather every Friday morning
> from 10-12 (and then continuing through lunch) at HP Labs in Palo Alto.[*] In
> order to draw some new people in, I think it would indeed be good to hold one
> of these meetings every month on the Google campus. Other Friday morning-ers:
> does this sound good?

I not sure the same timeslot would be ideal at Google; I was going to
suggest something
7pm Wednesday nights.

> Local cap-talkers: if you'd like to show up at the HP Labs Friday morning
> meetings, we gather in the lobby of 1501 Page Mill Dr starting about 9:50.
>
>
> > I'm thinking something
> > along the lines of the BayPIGgies meetings
> > (http://www.baypiggies.net/) we also host here...
> >
> > ...speaking of which, and only tangentially so: would anyone be
> > interested in discussing Pyth-E (to my so-far-limited understanding, a
> > cap-secure variant of Python) at one of the next BayPIGgies meetings?
>
> The person doing this is Brett Cannon (cc'ed). "Pyth-E" is our suggested name
> for his project. Last I heard, he has yet to pick a name.
>

Was there a shortlist with candidate names?  :)

> Brett, if you do speak at a BayPIGgies, please let us know. I'd certainly like
> to show up!
>

If Brett wants to speak at BayPIGgies, I'm sure Leslie Hawthorn and I
will make sure
a great number of people know about it.

>
> [*] The Friday morning discussions among much of the local capabilities crowd
> has been a mostly continuous weekly tradition starting in the mid 1990s at
> Agorics. Funny how easily traditions outlast companies.
>

How very true that is!  Traditions, and friendships...

Russell

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Russell Whitaker
Systems Operations Tools Team Lead
Google Inc., Mt. View, California