thoughts in the train and after about gangplank (put into a very rough text)by Rut
what comes to my mind again and again is the homogenity (of the group) at least up till the point I left: Even though we have different skills, approaches, instruments, programs we work with - ... even though some of us don´t do technic all the time, even though some of us perform and all of us do (willing or not) production work - even though all of that, all of us are on the one side of the light/sound/tech board or an instrument.
that homogenity made the time on one hand fantastic, rich, funny and exciting, on the other hand there was no or very little need to deal with things that most of us most probably deal with in our working reality: different needs of performers, musicians, techncians, designers concerning time and space, different rhythm, different interest and what more do i know.
So of course we can fire up discussions on the interactions of technology and dramaturgy amongst us, but we can also stay with exchanging knowledge and make patches work.
Or we don´t draw the borders so strictly.
...
I also doubt you can do the both at the same time -
On one hand finally having the luxury to sent time and share knowledge, resources (and beer) and get deeper into software that seems useful to us + at least for me, get lots of input concerning an interesting approach to all these endless possibilities of using technology on stage during conversations in the kitchen or across 10 Laptop screens
On the other hand spend time and discuss and share ideas with people who don´t like to sit 10 hours a day in front of a screen (i know, we all hate it) (Or ;-)), and work with body, and language and .....
I am sure both is good and we are capable of both 
but I wonder in which structure this would be possible. A structure which also leaves us time to swim and eat and get drunk once in a while
But maybe once I put this on the wiki you are already finding ways...
So this thoughts / text is full of us and them (or: the ones and the others) and black and white, but there´s something in it i did not solve yet.
And it´s a question to Gangplank, because for me it can = but not necessarily has to! = stay like what it is now: A bunch of poeple working in the field of stage technic and design and arts (well help me) meeting once in a while for sharing knowledge and ideas and constructing collapsing circuits and thunderstorms.
What do you think?