From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-10-24T10:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: RejectConf

Hi --

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Hal Fulton wrote:

> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>> 
>> And there's no establishment trying to suppress young radicals, in
>> this particular case.
>
> Haha, that's what you'd say if you WERE part of a conspiracy to
> suppress young radicals...  ;)
>
> Just kidding, I threw away my tinfoil hat ages ago.
>
>> I hope it goes well.  I wish I were there.  It feels weird not to be.
>> 
>
> It felt funny without you, too. The club of "attended every RubyConf"
> has shrunk that much more. It's now Jim Freeze, Paul Brannan I think,
> Nathaniel Talbott, and few others if any. (Not me, you, Matz, Chad,
> Jim W, ...)

Yeah, we lost two this year (me and Jim W.).  The every-year club is
now:

   Paul Brannan
   Jim Freeze
   Rich Kilmer
   Masayoshi Takahashi   # <= from Japan, six years in a row!!
   Nathaniel Talbott

I believe that this year we achieved, or came very close to achieving,
the landmark of 10X growth since the first year.


David

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