[TriLUG] Scripting Users Group?

[Tom Bryan]

On Friday 14 December 2001, Brent Verner wrote:

> I believe Tom Bryan mentioned forming a python user group; search
> the archive to see if my memory is completely gone or not ;-).  

Nope.  That would be me.  Java, C/C++, PL/SQL developer by day, Python hacker 
by night.  :-)  Although I lean strongly to Python, a general 
Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby/Tcl/etc.  group would be fun...as long as it was free of 
religious wars.

On Friday 14 December 2001 08:32 am, Christian J Hedemark wrote:

> Back to your question.... I'd feel a lot more comfortable posting stupid
> perl questions to a sublist.  I tend to not think of trilug at trilug.org as
> an appropriate place to ask such things.  

+1

> The public lists that are
> available are a bit too high traffic for my liking, 

+1 

> That said, if there were enough interest, I'd love to have either
> a general scripting at trilug.org 

+1

> group or, less favorably, specific
> sub-groups like perl at trilug.org and php at trilug.org.

-1

I feel that a post about a Python or Perl problem is offtopic for this list 
unless I'm specifically writing something related to Linux.  For example, 
scripting backups on my Linux box are on topic no matter what language I use. 
General quastions about how to access a postgres database programatically 
would be inappropriate, no matter which language I'm talking about.  If a 
scripting at trilug.org were created, I'd join.

I'm not sure whether a sublist is appropriate or whether this list should be 
part of an entirely separate group.  For example, if we created a 
scripting at trilug.org, would discussions of C++ programming be inappropriate? 
Certainly, how to get Perl working on a win32 box, or how to use COM from 
Python seem to be way off topic, no matter what sublist is created.  How do  
programming/software topics fit into trilug's mission? 

---Tom