From chicks at chicks.net  Thu Apr  5 10:13:18 2007
From: chicks at chicks.net (Christopher Hicks)
Date: Thu Apr  5 10:35:35 2007
Subject: [FINI-announce] Check out the FINI Recommendations!
Message-ID: <20070405141318.GD28972@chicks.net>

Since I've been adding folks to the announce list gradually, I thought it was time to reward you with something other thant he monthly mailman notices ("you're still subscribed to this slow list" basically.)

So, check out our recommendations page: http://wiki.fini.net/bin/view/Support/FiniRecommendations

This is our collective wisdom so far.  Cynthia and John have made major contributions to the content and the content management system, etc.  (Parenthetic appreciation is weak so I'll pass this time.)  :)

I've got other things to put up there that I want to get some more feedback on, so if you're interested in testing software and letting me know how it goes, get in touch.  Most of the testing is on the Mac, but there is some need for it in Windows as well.  Subscribe to fini-geeks if you want to do this too.  (Check out http://lists.fini.net for all of our mailing lists.)  fini-geeks is a great way to get a variety of technical perspectives on things you can't bring to ask me about directly.  A few dozen geeks and non-geeks hang out on there and the knowledge some of them possess and can share coherently is simply stunning.  Questions about making bombs or that you should be paying me to answer may be moderated.

And as always, feel free to contact anyone on the core team directly with your concerns:

	Christopher Hicks	chicks@chicks.net
	Cynthia Manuel		cynthia@fini.net
	John Lundin		lundin@fini.net

or email to wikimaster@fini.net will go to all of us.

Speaking of emergency contacts:
	wikimaster@fini.net	non-urgent requests, mainly wiki-related
	support@fini.net	semi-urgeent support requests official address
	abuse@fini.net		urgently report spam (UCE) and other irritants
	757.812.9485		my cell phone number for the impatient!
	911			fire, fire, fire!  [sssh...]
	Bertrand Russell	philisophical difficulties

lol.  Enjoy and thanks to everyone for your individual and corporate "contributions" to keeping our show rolling.  Thank you all.

-- 
</chris>

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make 
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way 
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
 -- C.A.R. Hoare

P.S. We're doing the Richmond Drag for my birthrday.  RSVP to Cynthia if you want to participate.  Join fini-geeks for fast car discussion too.

PPS: A "free" Perl class utilizing the _free_ perlclass.com materials will be held 13-17 Aug 2007 at the Boxwood Inn in Lee Hall.  Overnight rooms are still available (and there are plenty of hotel rooms in Williamsburg and by Fort Useless.  Witness your instructor ride a bicycle to class every day.  Let's see if Barbara Lucas is up to filling Margaret's cookie lady role.  :)  RSVP to me.  There will be a full announcement in a few weeks when we're more organized.