On 3/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roland Swingler</b> <<a href="mailto:roland.swingler@gmail.com">roland.swingler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm happy to meet slightly later on in April as well.</blockquote><div><br>
It looks strongly as if the original ballot was pointing to a meeting
on Thurs 30th. I'd suggest for constitutional simplicity/fairness to
those who've already voted that we stick with that, especially given
that LRUG's not had a meeting for March. And then we do another vote
right away, about April's meeting.<br>
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The only other factor to bear in mind is that the week of 10th is
Easter week, with Friday a statutory holiday. Some people are likely to
be on holiday that week and/or the next. I happen to be in New York the
first week, just to declare my interest. I'd be sorry to miss Chad but
in other ways it sounds a very sensible idea.<br>
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Why not do exactly the same kind of three-way vote for the date of the
April meeting of any Monday to Thursday between 10th and 27th,
excluding Monday 17th of Easter? <br>
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After that we could either settle on some formula (eg third Thursday of
the month) or vote each time, say at least three weeks in advance.
Given Ruby's penchant for being a dynamic language, with so much late
bound ... and with a increased number of Ruby pioneers like Chad liable
to be visiting from North America or Japan at reasonably short notice
... maybe voting would work best for this group.<br>
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I'm assuming that monthly is the right average frequency to keep the show on the road.<br>
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How many separate votes is that then, at the object (meeting) and meta
(constitutional) levels? That I'll leave to others to work out!<br>
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Richard<br>
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