Can someone please update info on fox.wikis? http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~NYCVFPUserGroup~VFP I'll post messages on UT and MSDN forum. On 8/22/07, Jay Berardinelli <docman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Peter, > Lew set up the list in freelist, so he should be able to give you a head > count. > i'm sure everyone is getting these, most including myself are not > responding to everything that is said. > > i'm also not so sure that this freelist.org is the proper place for our > list. > it is not conducive to threading, nor can anyone see a list of the members > at a glance. so to use this as a forum for questions and problems as you > suggested, will not work very well. > i think we need to go to a newsgroup based list, (no not back to > yahoogroups), > but like Universal thread, or any of the many others. > this would give us many more benefits as a whole. > plus a place to post code, and the presentation from Michael, etc. > but that's no guarantee who will show up at a meeting. > if you look at a site like http://www.thelunchclub.com > i think they do it all very well. not only is it a newsgroup type forum, > but also every event is outlined, > and the members can rsvp to each event, so we can make sure we have enough > people coming, and everyone could see who else is going ,etc. > > I could see creating a thread for each of the topics that we have an > interest in exploring, and those of us with knowledge of each can start to > contribute thoughts and code. it will be a permanent place to store this > valuable knowledge and code snippets that will accumulate. > > its unfortunate that we lost our presenter, and I agree with Nadya that we > probably always need to have a backup plan. > I see no need to cancel. I can help field questions, and also discuss > many of the areas i mentioned > including showing how to build a full application fro mstart to finish. > if someone can provide a laptop with a live internet connection, then i > can use it to demonstrate some live apps etc. > Jay > > > > PETER ROONEY wrote: > > Hello, Alen (I'm speaking familiarly though I don't believe I've met you) > Would you be at tomorrow's meeting? Are you in town? > > I think *all* meetings should have a component of "an open meeting where > people can present questions / problems" . I've been reading comments from > UGs in other cities - Madison WI, and Los Angeles - and that's how they do > it. They don't always have a speaker. > > The question is, will there be a meeting tomorrow, Thursday? Even if not, we > should keep the listserv, nycfoxsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx , active. This can be our > meetingplace, even when we're not meeting in person. > > People, if you are reading this, please reply to nycfoxsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx , > so we can get a headcount of who is on the list. > > Peter Rooney > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nycfoxsig-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nycfoxsig-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <nycfoxsig-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] > On Behalf Of alen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:34 AM > To: nycfoxsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [nycfoxsig] Re: Reminder: Meeting this week! > > Nadya; > > maybe an open meeting where people can present questions / problems? > Alen. > > On Tue, August 21, 2007 2:13 pm, Nadya Nosonovsky wrote: > > > > To unsubscribe from the NYACC Database SIG list, send an email > tonycfoxsig-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' (no quotes) in the > subject field. > > To unsubscribe from the NYACC Database SIG list, send an email to > nycfoxsig-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' (no quotes) in the subject > field. > > > >