Kevin Thorley <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
I think – especially after Kurth's recent email – these are all great ideas. Some of them are along similar lines to the presentations that VAGUE has been trying to do, some are a little more interactive versions of a traditional presentation, and some are not at all presentations, but purely interactive sessions. Regardless, it seems like there's consensus that "business as usual" with VAGUE meetings isn't meeting people's needs. Maybe a non-VAGUE venue will, but in the mean time – and since converstation started here – I don't see why VAGUE can't try to be closer to what people want. > - Open source bug fixing party: I forget who brought this up (Josh, I've been trying to get more involved with Gentoo testing and bug-fixing, and that sort of things might lend itself well to such an environment, especially since it seems like a large part of distribution work is looking at what/how *other* distributions work, and either doing the idiomatic thing in your distro, or promoting their solution. Heck, just having a "figure out how to fix your most annoying desktop issue" would be a good topic that everyone could probably contribute to. > - Arduino presentation. Arduino may not be UNIX, but it is open As I mentioned, I have a Diecimila and some basic spare parts I could bring to a similar event, so I'm totally down with this. But we should have a micro-presentation, I think, with most of the time being hands-on, instead. The Mac Lab at UVM might be kinda perfect for this, if available, since it's already a lab (no food, clean surfaces, power, &c.) environment. > - Ruby/Ruby on Rails: Has this topic been covered before? If not it I don't think Ruby/ROR has been covered, no. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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