From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T10:41:05+09:00
Subject: Re: RejectConf

On 10/23/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

> 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

Back when I was a regular OOPSLA attendee, and probably still, there
were ribbons which festooned various attendee's badges. There were
ribbons for speakers, panel organizers, workshop attendees and
organizers etc.  There was in fact a ribbon chairman, who usually
sported a special rainbow colored ribbon with his title.

One year the ribbon chairman decided to add a "perfect attendance"
ribbon.  I never got one because I missed the first conference. Wilf
Lalonde who had been at the first and ALMOST ever other, looked at
that ribbon and said:

   "Some things just can't be fixed."


-- 
Rick DeNatale

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