[wplug] Quote of the day

[Beth Lynn]

Hello,

Gather around dear children while I tell you of the history of Reg-Ex
talks sponsored by wplug. My memory is a bit fuzzy but this is what I
recall.

Sometime in 2001 David Ostroske did a regular expressions talk. There were 
no slides. It was so long ago that I could not find a meeting announcement.

A year later, Tom Fetherston offered to do a regular expressions talk
http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug-announce/2002-February/000037.html
but he came down with a bad cold and he could not do the talk. 
Unfortunately we never got around to rescheduling and Tom Fetherston moved 
to Ohio. Whenever Tom Fetherston is in town he stops by wplug to say 
hello.

There have been impromptu break-out discussions and lighting talks on 
regular expressions but for the life of me I can't recall who or when.

The bottom line is it's been about 4 years since there was a 
wplug-sponsored formal Regular Expressions talk. It is high time we have 
another!

Fear not, relief is in sight. James O'Kane has volunteered give a Regular 
Expressions talk on June 11, 2005. 
http://www.wplug.org/meetings/one-meeting?wp_meeting_id=3181

Just in case anyone was wondering, repeats are welcome. Unless a topic is
incredibly interesting or has a significantly different spin, we usually
wait 6-12 months before repeating a topic again.

Thanks,
Beth Lynn Eicher

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Bobbie Eicher wrote:

> I don't mind repeats at all, I was just pondering whether we might
> already have some slides that someone made up that could be reused as
> the basis of a new talk.
>
> Trying to reuse work and all that.
>
> - Bobbie
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:58:36 -0500, Chris Ott <cott at acclamation.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bobbie Eicher wrote:
>>> You know... I distinctly remember attending a WPLUG talk on regular
>>> expressions a while back, but I don't even see it listed on the past
>>> events page of wplug.org.
>>
>> I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't really see a problem
>> repeating stuff like this, every so often. Our attendance changes all
>> the time, technology changes, etc.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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