It's a bit contentless and an example of the vapidity and 'community' that infects open source projects that get legs. Your e-mail is in your profile, and coffee between two human beings can be coordinated via such a mechanism, but then you wouldn't get to show off how connected you are, I suppose. You literally responded to someone criticizing the conversation to follow up that, no, indeed, the criticism has merit, and for some reason we care that you know who Myles is. That speaks a lot about what's important to you, and people who aspire to be like you, in this industry. I would have figured those who have watched other industries create "boards" and "foundations" and other charities where the seat on them becomes a brokered commodity would take pause before subjecting tech to the same drivel.

Also: what "baseball?" Are you alleging you're behind the scenes in tech and we should all be privileged for you sharing this glimpse into how the world works with us? What an honor. How do we get to be as cool as you, dropping first names in HN comments of people who've created authority for themselves with mailman and an open source project? There's no baseball here, just vanity positions created to pad resumes and people who follow you on Twitter fawning over two programmers getting coffee.

I have an @apache.org e-mail, too, it's not a status symbol, but you do you