[NCLUG] *hugs*

[Chad Perrin]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:30:44AM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:45:45AM -0600, Katy G. B. wrote:
> >well i finally read the HackSoc choice,
> 
> Just to be clear to anyone else out there who is handicapped...  There is
> an NCLUG gathering nearly every week of the month which is completely
> wheelchair accessible.  The main meeting in the space that is graciously
> donated by College America is completely wheelchair accessible.  The
> remaining weeks of the month we have a dinner in Old Town, and the vast
> majority of the time that is at a wheelchair accessible place.  Given a
> day or a few notice of attendance, we could even re-schedule the dinner
> location, as it moves every week.
> 
> The group discussed it and decided that because we had to change not only
> location but also time, time of the gathering before it, and possibly night
> of the week (the proposed alternate location was scheduling music on
> Tuesday nights), and that nobody had taken advantage of the many
> wheelchair accessible gatherings that we DO have, that we were not ready to
> make the changes.
> 
> I would like to point out that both James and myself personally invited
> Katy to the second Tuesday main NCLUG meeting, and also to the dinners on
> several other occasions.
> 
> I've left out most of the "in defense of this position" discussion because
> it really is off topic.  If anyone really feels I should share the details
> of this, let me know.

I think you've covered the bases sufficiently -- and those of us who know
you personally know better than to assume you just told someone to take a
long stroll off a short pier because of a handicap.  As Elbert Hubbard
once put it:

  Never Explain - your Friends don't need it and your Enemies will not
  believe you anyway.

-- 
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