[svlug] The Purpose of the ...

[Michael Cheselka]

Hello Everyone,

1913?

Wikipedia:
In contemporary usage, picnic can be defined simply as a pleasure
excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors, ideally taking place in a
beautiful landscape. Picnics are often family-oriented but can also be
an intimate occasion between two people, or a large get-together,
company picnics and church picnics.

On romantic and family picnics a picnic basket and a blanket are
usually brought along. Outdoor games or some other form of
entertainment are common at large picnics.

Formerly, picnic meant a potluck, an entertainment at which each
person contributed some dish to a common table for all to share.

> >     It's everyone's picnic, Rick.
> ::This appears to be a deliberate falsehood.  It previously was; it isn't
> ::any more.
>
>   Picnic \Pic"nic\, n. [Cf. F. piquenique. See {Pick}, v., and cf.
>      {Knickknack}.]
>      Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed
>      some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure
>      party in which the members partake of a collation or repast
>      (usually in the open air, and from food carried by
>      themselves).
>      [1913 Webster]

On 8/5/07, Heather Stern <star at starshine.org> wrote:
> The purpose of the SVLUG is ... to have an occasional meeting and
> installfest and share good time with other people who for the most part
> happen to enjoy pizza.
>
> I had posted an absoultely generic flyer about an upcoming Linux and
> Open Source event going on.  The kind of people I just described above,
> which surely includes a few hundred more on this mailing list than the
> perhaps-a-hundred who actually show up on first Wednesdays, would have an
> interest in that.
>
> Open Source projects, including picnics and beer hikes, are not owned
> so much as made to happen.
>
> I was already concerned about the nature of a discussion on Volunteers
> because it praised my motives well and otherwise claimed things untrue.
> The miscellaneous flyer wasn't so miscellaneous when the response to it
> was a direct slam on the note above, in my opinion a slam on the overall
> nature of how projects of this community work.  Also, it was posted on
> the mailing list I read far less often.
>
> It is not the purpose of the SVLUG nor the picnic to grind axes.  Save
> the whetstone for more useful tools, and the grindstone for noses.
>
> >     You mean the portion that carries over to following picnix....
> ::It _isn't_ going into Sbay's general funds?  We both know the answer.
>
>       You can accept my word of honour, but I know what it's worth and
>       you don't.  I know that the answer is being read by the feds, for
>       what it's worth, and to my great pleasure nobody's been dragged
>       off in chains yet.  Nobody else here gives a rat's ass.
>
>       Stop turning SVLUG's public places into court cases. It makes
>       you look loud and drunken, and I believe much better than that
>       of you, on the average.
>
> >     It's everyone's picnic, Rick.
> ::This appears to be a deliberate falsehood.  It previously was; it isn't
> ::any more.
>
>   Picnic \Pic"nic\, n. [Cf. F. piquenique. See {Pick}, v., and cf.
>      {Knickknack}.]
>      Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed
>      some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure
>      party in which the members partake of a collation or repast
>      (usually in the open air, and from food carried by
>      themselves).
>      [1913 Webster]
>
> Seems to meet the definition.
>
>   . | .   Heather Stern                  |         star at starshine.org
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