For those of you who couldn't make the first meeting, you missed out on some tasty beer and pizza courtesy of the Positive Digital Solutions guys (thanks!) , interesting discussions of template caching, database usage, and structuring settings.py to accomodate for production/development ala' rails. I bounced early, so everyone else please tell us what else came up.
Regarding the format for the future, I generally explained how SD Ruby goes about it and everyone seemed to like the idea. The format would be;
1 meeting a month, at a central location (based upon attendance, this was closer to the UCSD area), with 2 presentations (preferably 1 introductory/intermediate, 1 advanced), after which those who were up for it would retreat to somewhere with tasty beer and appetizers to hang out.
I personally like Mondays and Wednesdays, as Tues. and Thursdays are frequently used up by other organizations. So I propose the last monday of the month as a regular meeting night.
With regards to space for presentations, if we could continue to follow on the heels of SD Ruby and get access to UCSD, I think that would be ideal, as it is company/industry agnostic, central, has good facilities, and very accessible. If anyone has connections to the folks at UCSD, it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again to everyone who came out, I think this will be a great resource and community for all of us.
I wrote: > I'm going to be offline until Monday morning[...]
Make that Tuesday morning--we ended up snowed in up at Lake Tahoe, and didn't get back into town until late Monday night, at which point I got to stay up til the wee hours getting caught up @ work. Bleah.
Nikolaj wrote: > For those of you who couldn't make the first meeting, you missed out > on some tasty beer and pizza courtesy of the Positive Digital > Solutions guys (thanks!) , interesting discussions of template > caching, database usage, and structuring settings.py to accomodate for > production/development ala' rails.
Sounds like I missed a great kickoff meeting!
I'm generally happy with the sdruby format, with Mondays, and with hosting @ UCSD, though I understand the parking situation there can be painful sometimes. The sdruby guys also do a hackfest offset from their meeting by two weeks--any interest in doing something like that?
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Edward O'Connor <hob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I'm going to be offline until Monday morning[...]
> Make that Tuesday morning--we ended up snowed in up at Lake Tahoe, and > didn't get back into town until late Monday night, at which point I got > to stay up til the wee hours getting caught up @ work. Bleah.
> Nikolaj wrote:
> > For those of you who couldn't make the first meeting, you missed out > > on some tasty beer and pizza courtesy of the Positive Digital > > Solutions guys (thanks!) , interesting discussions of template > > caching, database usage, and structuring settings.py to accomodate for > > production/development ala' rails.
> Sounds like I missed a great kickoff meeting!
> I'm generally happy with the sdruby format, with Mondays, and with > hosting @ UCSD, though I understand the parking situation there can be > painful sometimes. The sdruby guys also do a hackfest offset from their > meeting by two weeks--any interest in doing something like that?
> For those of you who couldn't make the first meeting, you missed out
> on some tasty beer and pizza courtesy of the Positive Digital
> Solutions guys (thanks!) , interesting discussions of template
> caching, database usage, and structuring settings.py to accomodate for
> production/development ala' rails. I bounced early, so everyone else
> please tell us what else came up.
> Regarding the format for the future, I generally explained how SD Ruby
> goes about it and everyone seemed to like the idea. The format would
> be;
> 1 meeting a month, at a central location (based upon attendance, this
> was closer to the UCSD area), with 2 presentations (preferably 1
> introductory/intermediate, 1 advanced), after which those who were up
> for it would retreat to somewhere with tasty beer and appetizers to
> hang out.
> I personally like Mondays and Wednesdays, as Tues. and Thursdays are
> frequently used up by other organizations. So I propose the last
> monday of the month as a regular meeting night.
> With regards to space for presentations, if we could continue to
> follow on the heels of SD Ruby and get access to UCSD, I think that
> would be ideal, as it is company/industry agnostic, central, has good
> facilities, and very accessible. If anyone has connections to the
> folks at UCSD, it would be greatly appreciated!
Hi everyone,
My name is Alex Clemesha, I wasn't able to make it to the
first meeting, but I definitely want to be there for future meetings.
I do happen to work at UCSD, as well as a partner of mine,
Dorian Raymer, who is also interested in going to group meetings.
I wonder if there is something specific me or Dorian can do to
possibly help out getting somewhere to meet at UCSD?
Please reply with any specifics concerning setting up
a meeting place on campus at UCSD.
