Hi: currently we have two event types - saturday meets - hackathon
i'd like to propose a new event type called 'WADR' aka (W)ith (A)ll (D)ue (R)espect. OBJECTIVE the objective of WADR would be - deconstruct other technologies, projects from a hacker / deeper perspective. - understand the core idea - explore the implementation - study their bug reports / issues very closely - learn from their architectural limitations, mistakes then we put on our own thinking caps and come up with our own design. given sufficient interest we may even go ahead and do our own implementation. WADR would get scheduled on a 'Sunday' at '(UTC+0000) 0800 hrs and be of '240 min' duration. EXAMPLE consider the current use of 'templating system' in DevOps space which essentially started off with 'web templates' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_engine_(web) eg. jinja2 and we also go configuration languages eg. HCL https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/blob/main/hclsyntax/spec.md eg. UCL https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl eg. nginx conf http://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html#conf_structure STRIKR THINK now when we put our thinking caps, we realize that configuration language, template, declarative style are best connected using 'type safety' and not 'strings'. Here is an opportunity ! BOTTOM LINE Finally as to the usage of the phrase WADR, read it an apt description (@st_vincent) of it while doing an internet search "with all due respect" is a wonderful expression because it doesn't actually specify how much respect is actually due. Could be none". Guess it would be cheeky fun. What does everyone think ? warm regards Saifi.
