Thanks to all who came! We'll gladly host again. In our conversations last night (which were characteristically wide-ranging from FOSS to mixed model development to beer), we touched on how to generate a little more enthusiasm and participation in VAGUE. We didn't come up with any concrete answers, but I would welcome further discussion about the future and direction of VAGUE.
Should the presentations be more technical? Less technical? Perhaps meetings should have both a technical component/ presentation and one that's less so? Should we be 1 part support group (e.g. bring your computer and questions) and one part presentation? Am I asking the void for answers that aren't forthcoming? I firmly believe that with a small push, VAGUE will continue to be a vibrant and important component of the fabric of technical folks here in Vermont. But I think we need to chart a perhaps slightly less vague course for ourselves :) R Rubin Bennett rbTechnologies, LLC 1970 VT Route 14 South East Montpelier, VT 05651 (802)223-4448 x101 http://thatitguy.com "I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." Leo Rosten 1908-1997 -----Original Message----- From: Josh Sled [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Nov meeting summary; Dec and Jan meetings Thanks to the few who turned out for the meeting at rbTechnologies last night, and thanks to all the rbTechnologies guys and Rubin especially for hosting and presenting! And I'm looking forward to having more meetings in their beautiful new conference room. :) http://sourceforge.net/projects/wanbalancer/ is pretty cool. Throw it at a box with two WAN-facing network interfaces, and you get both outbound and inbound (!) balancing and failover, without internal clients even being aware. Setup round-robin DNS entries or MX records for the public facing addresses of a service and get tolerance of a single channel failure. And open-source to boot! The December meeting will be in early December, likely the 8th, and we'll have two presentations. Dan Bowles <danbowles.com>, <twitter.com/DanBowles> will be talking about jQuery, and I'll do a survey of HTML5 Game development resources. More details soon. How about "open-source photo processing tools" for January? I could speak to the little I know: using ufraw/hugin/panotools for a few things (panorama stitching, HDR imaging). Anyone else using f-spot or gimp or something else for archival and/or post-processing? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
