-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian,
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:18:43PM -0700, Brian Chrisman wrote: > I'd be game. > The website suggests a somewhat undisciplined approach to programming, > but other than that caveat... it might be fun. Yeah, I mean I used to go to the founding group and I'm friend with Jafo. Actually coded a small bit on his hack called JotWeb which uses zope templates for making webpages entirely in Python. Here's how it went down. We'd meet at a local non-franchise restaurant for dinner. Then we'd head over to Remax who allowed us to use their conference room. Jafo had a really powerful access point in the same building so there was wifi and we also had a bag with power strips, cables, and a few other misc. things that might help people connect. Then everyone basically jacks-in and we open up cookies and other snackish foods and put them on the table to share. The rule was if you wanted to ask a question you had to provide cookies. So usually newbies would keep us well supplied. Then you just code on whatever. The great thing about it for me was the meatspace factor of it. I mean it's not like we didn't all normally hack on code at home. But there's something about getting together in real life. Sort of like a coding LAN party. And there weren't any boring or mediocre presentations. Just geeks, internet and snacks. And it worked out really well. Since the Fort Collins and Boulder Hacking Societies are all filled with HP and IBM linux gurus and various other smaller firms. I can't say I ever really learned anything at Hacking Society. I guess I discovered the Stars Wars Kid when someone showed it to me. But it was a nice encouraging spirit that actually provided enough of a feeling of support or ... comradery that I would focus a bit more than at home. And many a great application was written at HS meetings. So that's the general idea. LUGs are usually presentation oriented. There comes a point I guess where you lose interest in presentations on how to run Wine or setup a firewall and you just want to hang out and code. You know what I mean? peace, core -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDOdsfGAuLrxOyeJMRAoetAJ9tSm0JAaVhWVlateOpUL9BktEZlgCbBRlf 4O3ngKZMN0A5TxBklyNdnGA= =q14e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
