Several of the things that were discussed at the hackerspace council on Tuesday are quite applicable to future VAGUE meetings, so I thought in the middle of all this great hackerspace talk, maybe we could come up with some ideas for VAGUE's summer meetings.
- Open source bug fixing party: I forget who brought this up (Josh, Tony?), but it sounds like fun. We get together for a VAGUE meetings (maybe slightly longer than the normal meeting, say a 3 hour session, with food), pick an open source project that has some relatively easy to fix bugs (in advance) and work on them over the course of the evening. The goal is to introduce people to working on open source projects and hopefully submit some useful patches to the project's maintainers. I am open to suggestions for projects. Ideally there would be at least a couple VAGUE'ers who could look into it ahead of time and be familiar with the issues that we decide to tackle. I hear there is this great IP PBX project called sipX that could use some contributions... :) - Arduino presentation. Arduino may not be UNIX, but it is open source. And its open source hardware, which I find quite interesting. Maybe if we had success at building something at a hackerspace meetup, we could present the product at VAGUE - Ruby/Ruby on Rails: Has this topic been covered before? If not it would be an interesting subject for a VAGUE meeting I think. Given a little lead time I could do a presentation on this - Security talk, courtesy of our friend from the Debian team who will be in the area in June - Virtual network testbed: I've been slowly creating a virtual network using VMWare virtual machines. It covers routing, security, and application servers such as sendmail. I'd be willing to bring this in sometime to show it. A more interesting topic in this area might be a review of virtualization technologies and the roles they can play (development, testing, server consolidation, etc). Ok, there are some thoughts. I figure with all this excitement about the hackerspace, there should be plenty of things to talk about at VAGUE this summer. Kevin
