Hello, everyone,
 
This discussion is only for discussing The Special General Meeting
in this coming year.
 
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT EVERY MEMBER OF THIS GROUP CONTRIBUTE TO THIS
DISCUSSION.
 
The goal of this discussion is that we agree on ONE meeting in this
coming year that more than half of the active membership can come to
so that we can discuss the future and direction of this group.
 
The only way we can agree on a date and location is if most of the
active members participate in this discussion.
 
When you reply, try to give me information that will allow me to
narrow down the possible dates and locations.
 
Please keep replying until we pick a date and place.
 
--Kichiji.
 
On 30 Nov 2008, A. Kichiji Kabayama wrote:
> This discussion is only for discussing The Special General Meeting
> in this coming year.
> In order to make this more clear, I have changed the subject line
> to "(mailing list)PHP Special General Meeting."
> The goal of this discussion is that we agree on ONE meeting in
> this coming year that more than half of the active membership can
> come to so that we can discuss the future and direction of this 
> group.
> There are 74 members of this group, of which 18 or 19 of us visit
> the site.  "the active membership" refers to these members, so
> "more than half" would mean about ten of us.
> 7 people came to the last meeting, which is good, but we can see
> that most of us are merely lurking.
> The only way we can agree on a date and location is if most of the
> active members participate in this discussion.
> Speaking of Wifi, The Kensington Pub, The Unicorn Pub, Weed's
> Cappucino Bar, and The Purple Perk have free Internet.
> When you reply, try to give me information that will allow me to
> narrow down the possible dates and locations.
> When it gets down to 24 possibilities or less I can put up some
> polls.
> Please keep replying until we pick a date and place.
> Obviously, ten of us coming to an agreement could involve a lot of
> messages, so for the sake of our inboxes, I will move this
> discussion to the message boards once we get a dozen or more
> responses.  At that point, I will try to distill the contents of
> this discussion into some polls.
> On November 22, 2007, [address removed] on behalf of Sandor wrote:
>> Hi
>> 1. Any weekday after 8 pm
>> 2. All the locations were OK so far whatever you picked, so I
>> dont have any preference (maybe wifi so that we can bring
>> laptops) 3. after 8pm
>> 4. maybe a personal email to the members or a phone call, but I
>> understand that this is a lot of work.
>> Thanks Kichili for all your hard work
>> Sincerely
>> Sandor
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kichiji" <[address removed]>
>> To: <[address removed]>
>> Sent: Monday, November 19,[masked]:57 PM
>> Subject: [php-159]
>> *****(mailing list)PHP General 
>> Meeting.
>> >
>> > Please help me.
>> >
>> > Let us START with the idea that we would like to have a
>> meeting that > ten or more members attend, and at which we
>> discuss the future of > this group.
>> >
>> > Instead of doing what we usually do when I ask for
>> feedback, which > is ignore me completely, let us all please
>> discuss this until we come > to agreement on a day that most
>> of us can attend.  I do understand > that it may take months
>> to achieve a consensus.  >
>> > Please answer the following questions.
>> >
>> > 1.  What day will we have a meeting at which ten or more
>> members > will attend?  Let us start wide, and say that
>> the meeting will take > place from February to November of
>> 2008, and gradually narrow it down > to one day.
>> > 2.  At what location will we have a meeting at which ten or
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