KCRUG

In light of the new KCRug page. I thought I would add an about page to
the meetup group website and point browsers to the new website.
However, I need some a general history of KCRug. I know the basics but
if anyone could fill me in on the details.

KCRug has been around for 2+ years, correct? Does anyone have the date
when we were founded. Who were the original founders? Some sort of
mission statement would help. How many ruby geeks does it take to
change a light bulb? etc.

Basically, I would just like to write up a short about page
telling the general world who, what, where, when, why and then point them
at this very pretty new website. Anything, you have to add would
really be appreciated.

Thx,

Ryan

An "About" menu item and page has been added to the site. I have included a list of links to the page. If you are logged in as an administrator, you may modify this page and the links list if you see fit.

The first meeting I attended was in May 2004. It was held at the 151st Johnson County public library. Mark Slagell from Iowa State University was in town and he agreed to show some tools for generating reports in PostScript.

1. printraw.exe can be found at
http://www.andtechnologies.com/printraw.html

2. postscript library at
http://clinic-db.vm.iastate.edu/support/postscript_module.html

Back then, the group consisted of Jason Clinton, Shashank Date (the two founders) and Craig Cottingham. I think I was the fourth to "join."

Joining at that time meant hitting Reply All to an email since I don't think Jason had set up his mail server yet! It was easy to get left off threads!

The group had been meeting for some time then. They originally met at the Ruby Tuesday (now gone) by Oak Park Mall. I never made it to any of those meetings.

A bit more history (including the beginnings of the mailing list)

> From: Date, Shashank [MCG Contractor for Sprint]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:42:38 AM
> To: 'Jason Clinton'; Mitchell, David [CC]
> Cc: Craig S.Cottingham
> Subject: RE: List? (RE: Ruby equivalent of Perl's CPAN?)
> Auto forwarded by a Rule
>
Hi Jason,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Clinton [mailto:me@jasonclinton.com]

> I have a mailing list server. http://jasonclinton.com/mailman/listinfo

Cool !

> The lists are auto archived and far more robust than anything
> offered by
> Yahoo! Groups. The software auto-manages subscriptions, allows for
> digest delivery, spam control, access control and each recipient has
> their own personal configuration page where they can change their
> delivery options.
>
> If you'd like, I could register an additional domain name, bind it to
> that server and setup a mailing list.

I am game !
-- Shashank

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From: Craig S.Cottingham[SMTP:CRAIG@COTTINGHAM.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:45:56 AM
To: Jason Clinton
Cc: Date, Shashank [MCG Contractor for Sprint]; Mitchell, David [CC]
Subject: Re: List? (RE: Ruby equivalent of Perl's CPAN?)
Auto forwarded by a Rule

On Sep 7, 2004, at 11:40, Jason Clinton wrote:

> If you'd like, I could register an additional domain name, bind it to
> that server and setup a mailing list.

+1

--
Craig S. Cottingham
craig@cottingham.net
OpenPGP key available from:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7977F79C

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From: Craig S.Cottingham[SMTP:CRAIG@COTTINGHAM.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:40:46 PM
To: Jason Clinton
Cc: Date, Shashank [MCG Contractor for Sprint]; Mitchell, David [CC]
Subject: Re: List? (RE: Ruby equivalent of Perl's CPAN?)
Auto forwarded by a Rule
- Show quoted text -

On Sep 7, 2004, at 12:06, Jason Clinton wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 11:46, Mitchell, David [CC] wrote:
>> +1
>
> kcrug.org ??

We're listed as "OverlandParkGroup" at
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?OverlandParkGroup . Is oprug.org
available? Is opksrug.* preferable?

--
Craig S. Cottingham
craig@cottingham.net
OpenPGP key available from:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7977F79C

> ----------
> From: Date, Shashank [MCG Contractor for Sprint]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:15:41 PM
> To: 'Craig S.Cottingham'; Jason Clinton
> Cc: Mitchell, David [CC]
> Subject: RE: List? (RE: Ruby equivalent of Perl's CPAN?)
> Auto forwarded by a Rule
>
Yes: OPKSRUG, KCRUG, OPRUG anything is fine with me. "Six of One, Half Dozen of Another".
If I was forced to pick just one of the three, I would probably go for KCRUG.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig S.Cottingham [mailto:craig@cottingham.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:41 PM
> To: Jason Clinton
> Cc: Date, Shashank [MCG Contractor for Sprint]; Mitchell, David [CC]
> Subject: Re: List? (RE: Ruby equivalent of Perl's CPAN?)
>
>