On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:44, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > chris (fool) mccraw wrote: >> the winter coders' social was a great deal of fun and happened on tuesday >> night...make sure to put the summer one on your calendar for >> cross-interest-group mixin'
> Are there many novice devs at these events? I was a Comp Sci major once upon > a time, a time of > Assembler, Basic, Pascal, and Fortran. But those dinosaurs are extinct now in > the modern world > of object oriented and interpreted langs... i'm no rockstar coder, compsci degree notwithstanding. there were actually people there who weren't coders at all--and not just significant others. everyone there was some kinda geek though, even if not a Geek of CompSci. but it's a very welcoming crowd. the beer was free (thanks http://www.myemma.com!) and the potluck food was divine. i think i had the most fun playing word games, not talking shop, though daniel johnson and i did discuss methods for heating his house via some kind of supercomputing grant for a fair while =) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
