April meeting topic

[Alan Dayley]

On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:52 pm, Trent Shipley wrote:
> Alan
>
> Do we have a presenter or topic for 7 April?

We do.  I will confirm or deny the presentation after I reconfirm with the 
presenter.

> It would be nice to compliment Joseph's presentation on J2EE with
> presentations on other enterprise frameworks.
>
> Namely GNUe (Python) and Mono (VB.net and C#).
>
> http://www.gnuenterprise.org/
> http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

Those would certainly be timely topics right now, wouldn't they.

BTW, I have enjoyed this discussion in the devel list that you and others 
are pursuing.  It is just the sort of activity I hoped a real project 
would trigger.  Thanks for being a part of it.

> Hijacking the meeting for EPP/PEP discussion/debate/fight is also a
> real possibility.

Yes, well, if a core group wishes to discuss all of this or maybe the 
debaters would like a live forum, that could be very productive and 
educational.  We'll see how the calendar fills out for the next meeting.

> (Note to self, EPP alternatives include a ticketing and reservation
> project Arenas and promoters HATE Ticketmaster and tickets.com.  DIY
> ticket solutions exist, but are not satisfactory.  What they would like
> is competition and national scope.  A free n-tier ticket and
> reservation system might spark competion.  A participatory peer-to-peer
> [or co-op] market with enforcible regulatory controls [provision for
> fraud prevention] might be perfect.)

Interesting.  All it takes is people to do it.

Alan