On May 9, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
The recent reminder about the pdxlug meeting reminded me that I've been meaning to post here about having a pdxlug hacking event. Before I moved to Oregon, the smallish LUG in town (where $town = "Athens, GA") had monthly "hack days", wherein a LUG person would volunteer to host attendees at his / her house to drink beer, eat way too much pizza, and generally hack on [mostly] linux-related projects. These events usually started on a Saturday afternoon and (in some extreme cases when people could manage it) would last up to 24 hours. People would bring over their machines, extra hardware, monitors, network equipment, etc, and read docs, write code, work on their latest living-room MP3 jukebox thingy, generally hang out, or just do nothing at all. The host would usually collect small contributions from people who wanted to order food, etc. Now, Portland is a much, much bigger place than Athens, GA, so this sort of thing may or may not be feasible. So I've been wondering: would there be demand for this sort of thing? Is the idea -- which worked well for 10-15 people -- scalable to pdxlug? What kind of interest do you think could be generated? Who would be interested in a "pilot event"? Have you had similar experiences? Any and all issues should be considered. The cynical, over-worked, and under-excited need not reply. :)
PDX.rb does this on occasions, we usually meet at places like Old Town Pizza... and have over 10 people show up at times.
If David was interested in organizing stuff... I'm sure we could accommodate at our office in downtown on a Saturday... provided you pick up after yourselves... or David does. ;-)
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