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There is nothing scheduled for April. If someone wants to setup something, please feel free to do so.
David Hussman has been kind enough to reschedule.
It will be on May 26th, Tuesday (it is NOT the usual OTUG 3rd Tuesday).
The time will be 6:00pm. I will be talking to Kathleen/UST to figure out a place.
Also,
On June 16th, Tuesday We will have Terracotta come visit with us. Most probably Ari Zilka himself might come. More details at a later time... For the present mark your calendars.
And,
Robert Hanson has started a Concurrency SIG. He has started to put together material here: http://netrii.com/display/OCSIG/Home
He is looking forward to participation from the crowd.
Robert, want to say a few words....?
Best,
arun.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Arun Batchu <arun.batchu@...> wrote:
SPEAKER: David "The Dude" Hussman of DevJam (http://DevJam.com)
TITLE: The Black Swans of Big A Agile
DESCRIPTION: When Nicolas Taleb published "The Black Swan" in 2007, he was
not writing to the agile community. None the less, this excellent book
simultaneously supports and challenges the core agile principles and
practices. At a time when the agile community is truly working hard to
evolve and grow our agility beyond version one, Taleb's ideas are meaty
grist for the mill.
Taleb's "black swans" are significantly disruptive events which are
difficult to predict. To illustrate the dangers of black swans, Taleb
provides an excellent collection of ideas and terms wonderfully applicable
to a day in the life of any pragmatically practicing agilists. From
skeptical empiricism to epistemic arrogance to Philistine scholars Taleb is
not short on concepts which are wonderful catalysts for anyone interested in
keeping agility agile. In short, Taleb challenges to be wary of thinking we
know too much, a beginners mind perspective helpful to any agile community.
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Arun's note:
- If you know of David Hussman, you will definitely come. If you know about the book " The Black Swan", you will come too.If you do not know about either, you SHOULD come and discover David and the Black Swan - both are interesting in their own way. Its a FREE event. I am expecting this is going to be a sellout crowd (well, a FREE sellout crowd).We will have pizza and non-alcoholic drinks in the end (yes, that is FREE too ). I am hoping to garner one of the fantastic University of Stthomas rooms.Â
- Note it is on THURSDAY and NOT TUESDAY.Â
- If you would like to sponsor, let me know.
- Epistemic: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aepistemic&ie=utf-8
- Philistine: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aphilistine&ie=utf-8
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