Re: [PLUG] Tonight's topic?

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

On 9/5/12 4:42 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Because I cunningly avoided specifying one. Generally what I do these 
> days is invite questions at any time, and the just talk about things 
> I've been thinking about or coding recently and going wherever the 
> audience wants to take that. This seems to work. 
+1

I attended a recent talk by ESR at a Java Users Group meeting.  As he
said, no particular agenda, just took questions from the audience,
and allowed them to lead to interesting discussions.  I found it all
very useful and enlightening.  ESR is a good speaker with a ton of
practical programming knowledge, and interesting experiences.
We finally had to give up the meeting room, but ESR and many of
the attendees continued for a long while at the nearby pub.

For more info:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

Wish I could make it...

--Fred
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