I never seem to be able to make it along in the evening, but would really like to meet up with everyone someday :) Would anyone be interested in a TVIC lunch one day, or perhaps an afternoon tea or coffee break?
I remember Marek suggesting we all get together for a 'hack day' a while back. That could be fun, too. (Esp. if someone can bring along a vodem or a box with a pair of wireless cards so we can all get online...)
> I never seem to be able to make it along in the evening, but would > really like to meet up with everyone someday :) Would anyone be > interested in a TVIC lunch one day, or perhaps an afternoon tea or > coffee break?
Sounds good to me. I could even get Karl along that way - evenings are a bit of a no-go for him as well.
> I remember Marek suggesting we all get together for a 'hack day' a > while back. That could be fun, too. (Esp. if someone can bring along > a vodem or a box with a pair of wireless cards so we can all get > online...)
The incubator has tons of space and Interclue could provide the WiFi coverage. Just a matter of picking a day when nothing else much is happening, like on a weekend.
Would there be any point trying to throw together a last minute "BarCamp" for next weekend do you think? So that we could be part of BarCampEarth? I just noticed this...
Hmmm. I expect we'd be much better off trying for a more organised BarCamp at a later date, so that we'd get a few more visitors, but I think I might be able to sell the Incubator on providing the space for such an effort.
Anyone else planning on going to the eGov Barcamp in Wellington when they have that?
> > I remember Marek suggesting we all get together for a 'hack day' a > > while back. That could be fun, too. (Esp. if someone can bring along > > a vodem or a box with a pair of wireless cards so we can all get > > online...)
I reckon WiFi access + good coffee should be the mantra for a ideal coworking place :-)
I wonder what places around ChCh have WiFi (ideally for free) and easy going environment (ie. they won't mind bunch of hackers with laptops invading their place for few hours).
> The incubator has tons of space and Interclue could provide the WiFi > coverage. Just a matter of picking a day when nothing else much is > happening, like on a weekend.
> Would there be any point trying to throw together a last minute > "BarCamp" for next weekend do you think? So that we could be part of > BarCampEarth? I just noticed this...
> Hmmm. I expect we'd be much better off trying for a more organised > BarCamp at a later date, so that we'd get a few more visitors, but I > think I might be able to sell the Incubator on providing the space for > such an effort.
I would be quite interested in BarCampEarth. But weekends are usually diffifult for me. And I suspect for many others, too. Friday would be a perfect day for this I reckon.
Shall we give it a go and meet up for few hours this Friday? Perhaps as a combination of Interclue space + lunch somewhere
> Anyone else planning on going to the eGov Barcamp in Wellington when > they have that?
I haven't heard of it, but it sounds good. Do you know when-ish is it going to happen? It would be great to get some cheap Air NZ flight tickets and have a trip to Welly to attend.
> I reckon WiFi access + good coffee should be the mantra for a ideal > coworking place :-)
> I wonder what places around ChCh have WiFi (ideally for free) and easy > going environment (ie. they won't mind bunch of hackers with laptops > invading their place for few hours).
Definitely... sounds like a plan, if we can find somewhere. There's places like the Boardroom, but that's more an office than a cafe, unless you hire one of their "cubicles", then probably pay Telecom extra for the wifi!
Along those lines, does anyone know of any cafe wifi providers other than Telecom in Christchurch? Up north there's cafenet, which has much more reasonable pricing ($10/day). It would be interesting to approach local cafes and see how they would feel about setting up wifi for customers. Also get an idea of their costs... as in: how much food/drink would one have to buy to cover the cost of occupying a seat in there all day?
> I would be quite interested in BarCampEarth. But weekends are usually > diffifult for me. And I suspect for many others, too. Friday would be > a perfect day for this I reckon.
> Shall we give it a go and meet up for few hours this Friday? Perhaps > as a combination of Interclue space + lunch somewhere
> > Anyone else planning on going to the eGov Barcamp in Wellington when > > they have that?
> I haven't heard of it, but it sounds good. Do you know when-ish is it > going to happen? It would be great to get some cheap Air NZ flight > tickets and have a trip to Welly to attend.
> I would be quite interested in BarCampEarth. But weekends are usually > diffifult for me. And I suspect for many others, too. Friday would be > a perfect day for this I reckon.
> Shall we give it a go and meet up for few hours this Friday? Perhaps > as a combination of Interclue space + lunch somewhere
Sounds good to me. I checked with the Incubator manager and there's tons of space free upstairs on Friday. I pencil booked us for the afternoon.
So, Interclue will provide the wifi access, or maybe the folk from http://cheap-hotspots.com will if they want to come to the party.
I might talk to the Wowza.co.nz lads upstairs and see if they want to sponsor us with pizza and beer :-)
Would love to do some python hacking on the Neo1973/OpenMoko[1] or perhaps this could be the basis for a (fairly) regular hackers/geek meetup where we could have technical presentations, group hacking sessions, etc!
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it this Friday as I'm still out of the country. Will be keen after 12th of September, though :-)
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:13 +1200, Seth Wagoner wrote:
> > I would be quite interested in BarCampEarth. But weekends are usually > > diffifult for me. And I suspect for many others, too. Friday would be > > a perfect day for this I reckon.
> > Shall we give it a go and meet up for few hours this Friday? Perhaps > > as a combination of Interclue space + lunch somewhere
> Sounds good to me. I checked with the Incubator manager and there's tons > of space free upstairs on Friday. I pencil booked us for the afternoon.
> So, Interclue will provide the wifi access, or maybe the folk from > http://cheap-hotspots.com will if they want to come to the party.
> I might talk to the Wowza.co.nz lads upstairs and see if they want to > sponsor us with pizza and beer :-)
I thought of heaps of people I'd like to see talk about something, but it's so late notice at this point. So I guess we see who turns up, and we might plan for doing another more serious one on a later weekend!
I haven't told anyone else yet, but if nobody says "dude, seriously, lets wait until another time" in the next 30 minutes, then I will start emailing my contact list about this.
Ahhh.... that sounds like a lot of fun, and I'd definitely like to talk about decentralised social networks (including, but not exclusively, PeopleAggregator, as we still haven't really got around to the good stuff yet there IMHO!), but this Friday's not the best for me... any chance of delaying a week or two?
Seth Wagoner wrote: > Argh, I knew there was a reason I didn't want to do it this week...just > in a crazybusy swirl at the moment, worse than usual even.
> I thought of heaps of people I'd like to see talk about something, but > it's so late notice at this point. So I guess we see who turns up, and > we might plan for doing another more serious one on a later weekend!
> I haven't told anyone else yet, but if nobody says "dude, seriously, > lets wait until another time" in the next 30 minutes, then I will start > emailing my contact list about this.
Phillip Pearson wrote: > Ahhh.... that sounds like a lot of fun, and I'd definitely like to talk > about decentralised social networks (including, but not exclusively, > PeopleAggregator, as we still haven't really got around to the good > stuff yet there IMHO!), but this Friday's not the best for me... any > chance of delaying a week or two?
Well, I think your talk would be a highlight for many, particularly since you haven't made it to TVIC yet :-) So to me the fact that you'd like to delay and I'm totally overloaded myself this week is good enough reason to wait, despite the BarCampEarth alignment.
Personally, I'd like to do it done properly and have a decent number of people show up and give decent talks, and there just isn't time left in the week for people to prepare themselves and arrange time off.
I haven't blogged it yet, doubt anyone else has, so I'll remove it from the one place it is linked from and put on the webpage that we're currently pondering what date we should do this.
Then tomorrow I'll check with the incubator about when rooms are available over the next few weeks, and report back on this mailing list as to available dates.
Then once we have a quick consensus on date(s) we'll blog it and post it to the NZ2.0 list and we might get a few coming down from up north.
There are two other people I mentioned it to, I'll email them and let them know it's being deferred.
> Seth Wagoner wrote: >> Argh, I knew there was a reason I didn't want to do it this week...just >> in a crazybusy swirl at the moment, worse than usual even.
>> I thought of heaps of people I'd like to see talk about something, but >> it's so late notice at this point. So I guess we see who turns up, and >> we might plan for doing another more serious one on a later weekend!
>> I haven't told anyone else yet, but if nobody says "dude, seriously, >> lets wait until another time" in the next 30 minutes, then I will start >> emailing my contact list about this.
Cool... I like the MiniBarCamp concept, BTW; a semi-regular 'Friday afternoon session' could be pretty interesting. Even just a couple of hours every now and then could be interesting. Or something we could tack on to lunchtime, for those with less flexible hours... a bunch of us could head over to the incubator for lunch and do a single presentation/discussion.
> Well, I think your talk would be a highlight for many, particularly > since you haven't made it to TVIC yet :-) So to me the fact that you'd > like to delay and I'm totally overloaded myself this week is good enough > reason to wait, despite the BarCampEarth alignment.
> Personally, I'd like to do it done properly and have a decent number of > people show up and give decent talks, and there just isn't time left in > the week for people to prepare themselves and arrange time off.
> I haven't blogged it yet, doubt anyone else has, so I'll remove it from > the one place it is linked from and put on the webpage that we're > currently pondering what date we should do this.
> Then tomorrow I'll check with the incubator about when rooms are > available over the next few weeks, and report back on this mailing list > as to available dates.
> Then once we have a quick consensus on date(s) we'll blog it and post it > to the NZ2.0 list and we might get a few coming down from up north.
> There are two other people I mentioned it to, I'll email them and let > them know it's being deferred.
> Cheers, > Seth.
>> Cheers, >> Phil
>> Seth Wagoner wrote:
>>> Argh, I knew there was a reason I didn't want to do it this week...just >>> in a crazybusy swirl at the moment, worse than usual even.
>>> I thought of heaps of people I'd like to see talk about something, but >>> it's so late notice at this point. So I guess we see who turns up, and >>> we might plan for doing another more serious one on a later weekend!
>>> I haven't told anyone else yet, but if nobody says "dude, seriously, >>> lets wait until another time" in the next 30 minutes, then I will start >>> emailing my contact list about this.
Phillip Pearson wrote: > Cool... I like the MiniBarCamp concept, BTW; a semi-regular 'Friday > afternoon session' could be pretty interesting. Even just a couple of > hours every now and then could be interesting. Or something we could > tack on to lunchtime, for those with less flexible hours... a bunch of > us could head over to the incubator for lunch and do a single > presentation/discussion.
Yeah, I think that would be pretty cool too. BarCamp may not be quite the right meme, doesn't seem to be suited to regular events. However while browsing their wiki I spotted link to sister memes like:
Which seems more appropriate for this sort of thing...
I'd be keen to see it happen weekly, and I think there are enough interested parties in the incubator now to make it work - so there'd always be a tenant to supervise and a few people who'd show up on any given friday, which would allow it to gather steam because people wouldn't have to bother looking up to see if it was on this week, they could just show up.
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 21:37 +1200, Seth Wagoner wrote: > Phillip Pearson wrote: > > Cool... I like the MiniBarCamp concept, BTW; a semi-regular 'Friday > > afternoon session' could be pretty interesting. Even just a couple of > > hours every now and then could be interesting. Or something we could > > tack on to lunchtime, for those with less flexible hours... a bunch of > > us could head over to the incubator for lunch and do a single > > presentation/discussion.
> Yeah, I think that would be pretty cool too. BarCamp may not be quite > the right meme, doesn't seem to be suited to regular events. However > while browsing their wiki I spotted link to sister memes like:
> Which seems more appropriate for this sort of thing...
> I'd be keen to see it happen weekly, and I think there are enough > interested parties in the incubator now to make it work - so there'd > always be a tenant to supervise and a few people who'd show up on any > given friday, which would allow it to gather steam because people > wouldn't have to bother looking up to see if it was on this week, they > could just show up.
I'd definitely be keen! Once I'm back post September 12th I'd love to do a preso re. Plone 3!
Seth, great stuff with BarCamp. It probably is good idea to prepare it properly here on the list and perhaps send out information about the event to NZ2.0, Effussion, BBQ and other lists.
Another good meme that I can see happen quite easily would be SHDH (http://superhappydevhouse.org.nz/). There was (first) one in Welly few weeks back and I don't see any reason why there should not be one here in CHCH.
Btw. is anyone still keen on lunch tomorrow (Friday)? I am thinking Osaka Kitchen at 12:30pm and then go to C1 for coffee.
Cheers, Marek
On 8/16/07, Tim Knapp <duf...@kokorice.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 21:37 +1200, Seth Wagoner wrote: > Phillip Pearson wrote: > > Cool... I like the MiniBarCamp concept, BTW; a semi-regular 'Friday > > afternoon session' could be pretty interesting. Even just a couple of > > hours every now and then could be interesting. Or something we could > > tack on to lunchtime, for those with less flexible hours... a bunch of > > us could head over to the incubator for lunch and do a single > > presentation/discussion.
> Yeah, I think that would be pretty cool too. BarCamp may not be quite > the right meme, doesn't seem to be suited to regular events. However > while browsing their wiki I spotted link to sister memes like:
> Which seems more appropriate for this sort of thing...
> I'd be keen to see it happen weekly, and I think there are enough > interested parties in the incubator now to make it work - so there'd > always be a tenant to supervise and a few people who'd show up on any > given friday, which would allow it to gather steam because people > wouldn't have to bother looking up to see if it was on this week, they > could just show up.
> I'd definitely be keen! Once I'm back post September 12th I'd love to do a > preso re. Plone 3!
The incubator manager and I had a look at the incubator booking list on Fridays for the next wee while. Mostly clear, but the 7th Sep has something penciled in. If we want to have a chance to attract some out of town folks we'd be better to go with the 31st rather than next week, because airfares for the 24th will be pretty high by now. The 14th is a BarCamp in Wellington. Personally I'd prefer not to wait until 21st Sep if we don't have to.
> The incubator manager and I had a look at the incubator booking list on > Fridays for the next wee while. Mostly clear, but the 7th Sep has > something penciled in. If we want to have a chance to attract some out > of town folks we'd be better to go with the 31st rather than next week, > because airfares for the 24th will be pretty high by now. The 14th is a > BarCamp in Wellington. Personally I'd prefer not to wait until 21st Sep > if we don't have to.
> Marek Kuziel wrote: > > Btw. is anyone still keen on lunch tomorrow (Friday)? I am thinking > > Osaka Kitchen at 12:30pm and then go to C1 for coffee. > Assuming I continue to survive married life and early morning wake-ups > from the kids--yes. :-)
> Seth, great stuff with BarCamp. It probably is good idea to prepare it > properly here on the list and perhaps send out information about the > event to NZ2.0, Effussion, BBQ and other lists.
Yep, would be cool to get a large bunch of folks along. The incubator certainly has room for it.
> Another good meme that I can see happen quite easily would be SHDH > (http://superhappydevhouse.org.nz/). There was (first) one in Welly > few weeks back and I don't see any reason why there should not be one > here in CHCH.
Indeed.
> Btw. is anyone still keen on lunch tomorrow (Friday)? I am thinking > Osaka Kitchen at 12:30pm and then go to C1 for coffee.
On Aug 16, 8:23 pm, bevan <b.ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be interested on doing something drupal-ish, although I'm not sure > what exactly...
Perhaps something about some new features in the latest version(s)? Or how to build a drupal module? Or a comparison against some other popular CMS/Community system(s) you're familiar with?
Sorry for the delay folks. Too much going on at once for me :-/ I still can't decide on the next week / week after decision - turns out the 7th is available after all you see. Lets make a decision tomorrow afternoon one way or the other. Posted to NZ2.0 - any other lists people can post to would be cool.
> Sorry for the delay folks. Too much going on at once for me :-/ I > still can't decide on the next week / week after decision - turns out > the 7th is available after all you see. Lets make a decision tomorrow > afternoon one way or the other. Posted to NZ2.0 - any other lists > people can post to would be cool.
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