From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org brings people together!
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:11:11 -0400 [thread overview]
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Thanks for making it happen John! I had a great visit, and hope to see some
org-mode adoption in a company environment. That would be amazing!
John
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On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 11:24 PM John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> Just wanted to celebrate the fact that 3M (where I work [1]) was able
> to host Prof. John Kitchen last week to give two talks: one on his
> work in catalysis, touching on modeling molecular interactions, and a
> second one about reproducible research with Org-mode.
>
> At 3M we have chapters, which I describe like college clubs, but
> organized around different technology topics. These are volunteer
> groups responsible for some ~450 events per year at 3M Center in St.
> Paul, MN. The events are things like internal product/technology
> talks, vendor presentations, poster sessions, and hosting professors.
>
> When I saw John's mention scimax [2] maybe a year ago and realized he
> works in an area where we have such a chapter (catalysis), as well as
> works with Org-mode (relevant to our software chapter), I started
> scheming and pitched that we invite him. Fast forward a few back and
> forths about timing later, followed by a sabbatical at Google, and
> revisiting the idea... and it finally happened!
>
> Sadly, I missed the Org talk (CTO was presenting at the same time),
> but I did go to the first and was able to join him for dinner. I admit
> that the others at dinner were not quite as programm-y as we were, and
> might have been playing along laughing we got into the inevitable vim
> vs. emacs jokes. We were quite amused, though.
>
> John will be the second person I've met on the user list. I met Erik
> Iverson, a long-time user, back in 2011. Turns out he was running the
> Twin Cities R User Group here and we ended up co-organizing together
> for a couple years.
>
> So far, Org-ers have been 100% awesome in person, and I look forward
> to running into more down the road. Anyway, just felt like a fun bit
> of news to share, and hopefully you all can nerd out about Org in
> person at some point too!
>
> It was great to meet you John, great work, great talk, and I look
> forward to digging into scimax more soon!
>
>
> Best regards,
> John
>
> [1] If 3M isn't immediately recognizable, you might know it for some
> of it's bigger brands/products like Scotch Tape, Command Strips,
> Post-It Notes, Filtrete filters, and Scotch-Brite.
>
> [2] https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-10 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-10 3:24 Org brings people together! John Hendy
2018-10-10 19:11 ` John Kitchin [this message]
2018-10-10 20:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-16 20:52 ` Adam Porter
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