On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 14:48, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > For this Saturdays bug squish. > > > > I've never attended so please bear with me. ...nor have I and I'm organising it ;) > > I take it participants should bring a lap top to work on? > > Yes you normally need some kind of computer. There may be some Knoppix beasties running around but in the end you will need to get to an environment where you can do coding, the Knoppix beasties will pretty much just give 'net access > > Linux of any flavour, so long as we have gcc to play with? > > Yes, or "programming environment of your choice" since it won't be > exclusively C hacking. It's Debian bug squishing, but you could *at > least* generate patches on distro-of-your-choice. Ahuh, it's also a code fest, so if you want to write a "Hello World" in a thousand different languages, go for it! > > I've been noticing the list of "that sounds good" style talks coming > > through. I thought attending would be good to look at another distro, is > > there set talk-hack periods or all pretty laid back? > > Check http://debian.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=123 -- it doesn't > look like the talks are set for specific times. I'm way behind on my email, I've definitely not read that thread yet. The talks are going to happen when these four events match: - the speaker is there - there is a general grumbling for a talk - the speaker isn't busy doing something more interesting - the room is a available I tried scheduling but as Mary said: > Codefests are generally laid back. :) > > From discussion I take it getting back to Redfern is recommended, I was > > going to walk from central. (I'm coming from Wollongong.) > > It would probably save you something like 10 minutes assuming you can > get a train back to Redfern fairly quickly (normally OK since most > suburban trains stop at Redfern). If you end up coming out for dinner we'll be making our towards Central. -- Cheers, Craige. o/~ I'm going to die with a twinkle in my eye 'cause I sung songs spun stories loved laughed and drank wine o/~ - The Cat Empire
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