2020 2020 wrote:
I was traveling for 1 1/2 years and just got back to
Hawaii last week. I noticed that Linux users groups
in other places were not very organized. In the
places I visited it wasn't from lack of interest, but
from lack of direction/leadership (one person who sets
the date, location, topic).
In Hawaii his name is Scott.
In one city they were setting up a kiosk at the mall so people could try Linux,
and then come to install sessions on the following weekend. I don't know how
that turned out though.
I am hoping to take some programming classes at UH or KCC next semester. I'm
trying to learn
Python/Plone/Zope, but am interested in anything relating to computers (preferably Linux/open-source).
I don't find any CS like classes at KCC. The closest I found at UH is
ICS 415, but it appears to be Java+Javascript+a smattering of XML and HTML.
HOSEF held a PHP class taught by a local wizard (Kevin English) once,
but I've never been able to get them to repeat the class.
I also heard something about a local Ruby users group?
Google finds this:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/6e7a429efaf8946e
Anthony Eden (http://allthings.mp/) is a good guy. I met him at
TPOSSCON last year (we also saw each other at O'Reilly's ETech). Turns
out I know his brother (Darrin), who lives in Portland (via Portland's
"community wireless" group.)
I'm interested in finding, or forming a local LISP users group, but
after 30 years of 'C', perl, tcl, C++, FORTRAN
and a heap of things you probably haven't heard of,, all but LISP is
crap to me. Ruby and Python are but weak forms of LISP with
crutch-like syntax 'helpers' (neither has macros (in the LISP sense of
the word), nor will their 'syntax' allow same).
Does anyone know if "Soft Warehouse" is still on-island? (They made the
symbolic math stuff found in the more advanced TI calculators.)
jim
