I just got back from the Jigsaw Renaissance field trip. Melissa, myself, and Richard attended. As Geremy experienced, it's hard to find if you haven't been there before, and I was looking in all the wrong places until I saw the snailshell logo across the street. (The address is 1026, meaning it's just east of Terry, but across the street at Boren there's a large building called 1001 just to confuse you, and it's the only building on the block so you're wondering "Where is 1026?" But the 1001 actually refers to the cross street because Madison is 1000 when you're going past it, yet the number was on the Madison side of the building rather than the Boren side just to confuse everybody. Bad building, nyaah!)
Lion Kimbro and this guy Ryan showed us around the place. It's a small storefront on Madison. The front third has "squares" along the walls, which are spaces that people rent individually and can just fit a desk and shelving unit. The middle part has a sofa one one side and a projection wall on the other. The back part has a woodshop (with a jigsaw!) and they're building a kitchen (mainly utilitarian but also a learning opportunity). Then there's a separate room in back which seems like a microwave/snack alcove. So the JS space is quite the variety. Apparently you just look on the calendar for an interesting theme day and show up. Later another guy came, a new SeaPIG member, I think his name was Eric (?, I'm bad with names and identities, which is why I can't remember if I've met somebody before, as half the SeaPIGgies can attest). He's looking to hire a Python programmer who's an expert on scaling/greenlets/networking for a multiplayer-game project with buzzwords like cloud application servers, game consoles, and smartphones. Geremy, we thought you might know somebody along those lines, and anyone else; I expect he'll make a more detailed announcement shortly. Or if anyone would like to give a SeaPIG talk on related topics. (We also invited him to give a talk on his areas of expertise, so that may be coming.) So the field trip turned into a kind of SeaPIG meeting discussing the growth and merits of NoSQL databases, EC2 vs Rackspace, and cloud servers vs cloud application servers (App Engine, Azure), and smartphones. I asked a smartphone question about Android, which I'll put in another thread. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
