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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Brett L. Schuchert <schuchert@yahoo.com><BR>To: OKC JUG Steering Committee Mailing List <sc@lists.okcjug.org><BR>Cc: Robert Martin <unclebob@objectmentor.com><BR>Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:46:08 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Steering Committee] What about Robert Martin to present in November?<BR><BR>Of late he's been giving talks related to software professionalism in different languages. Here's the one he's giving tonight at agile Houston:
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<DIV>However, he's got a few. I'll talk to him tonight to see what he's got up his sleeve. I've also CC'd him so he can respond when he has enough time to stop recording videos for some training we're developing...</DIV>
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<DIV>Brett</DIV>
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<DIV>p.s. Bob, disregard that previous email. I should have figured out Ryan was being sarcastic, he's managed to rope me in on more than one occasion.
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<DIV>On Aug 28, 2007, at 5:37 PM, ryan hoegg wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Yes, I'm sorry.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>I should have said "Application for Permission to</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Propose a Topic for Consideration by the Esteemed Steering Committee"</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">:)</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">We'd love to have Bob.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>What's he going to talk about?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On 8/28/07, Brett L. Schuchert <<A href="mailto:schuchert@yahoo.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>schuchert@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Well if that's the case, then let me say "OUCH" as I remove the hook he so</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">skillfully buried deep into my cheek!</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">BTW, just taught the first day of our 3-day course on concurrency (which I</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">will steal from for the September talk). Pretty smooth for a first-cut - not</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">without bumps, but pretty solid so far.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Brett</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On Aug 28, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jason Lee wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I think Ryan was joking.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>I hope he was, as I have no idea what he's talking</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">about. :P</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On 8/28/07, Brett L. Schuchert < <A href="mailto:schuchert@yahoo.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>schuchert@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I've forwarded this email on to Bob, so realize that I am neither</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">evading or filtering the request from Bob.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">----</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">So how long has the submittal process involved using two forms?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">When did the process become a process?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I'm confused at the need for a process, have we become so big that we</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">need bureaucracy? Or it is more related to how we communicate and the</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">fact that there's essentially a distributed group? (In reality, I'm</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">really not part of the WE because I've never been to a steering</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">committee meeting.) Did the APLN get their hands on the group somehow?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">What problems are these forms solving or what's the specific business</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">value is added by having such forms?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I know I am biased because I work for Bob, but he has been an</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">industry-recognized leader for several years - long before I worked</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">for him. Do we really need a presenter evaluation form for him?</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">(Again, remember I forward this email on to Bob so I'm asking because</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">it sounds silly to me but I'm also conforming so I really am questing</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">the sanity of the request WHILE going along with the inmates.) BTW,</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">if the answer is yes, we need to evaluate Bob Martin, then I suspect</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I better fill out the same documentation for the September</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">presentation because if his 25+ years of experience, books, papers,</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">numerous presentations and keynotes at several conferences as well as</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">being one of the primaries on the Manifest of Agile Development does</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">not immediately qualify him as a potential presenter, then my few</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">talks at the JUG sure as hell should not qualify me for a talk since</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I have never filled out this form. And if I'm completely off basis on</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">my interpretation of "Presenter Evaluation Form" then maybe it should</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">be renamed.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">He's not going to care about any of this, he's very easy going. I</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">really don't care about the specifics of asking Bob for these things.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I'm really trying to get an understanding of what these two forms are</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">doing when I've never seen nor heard of these things.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Brett</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On Aug 28, 2007, at 4:49 PM, ryan hoegg wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Sounds good.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Do you have some topic proposals he can present to the</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">JUG Presentation Committee for approval?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Jason, send him the Application to Propose a JUG Presentation Topic</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">and the Presenter Evaluation Form so we can start the process.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On 8/28/07, Jason Lee <<A href="mailto:jason@steeplesoft.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jason@steeplesoft.com</A>> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I'm checking his schedule but you think that might work?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Works for me.</DIV>
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