ASM relocating for next semester
Sukant Hajra
I'm happy with these bi-weekly meetups, and am happy to keep them going.
Unfortunately, Mutual Mobile is no longer able to provide us the room we've
been using.
That said, I'm thinking the best move is to move the meetup back to campus.
I've always wanted it to be easy for students to get to. The only problem has
always been getting internet for non-students on campus. Parking is a little
tedious, but the street parking that opens up exactly at 5:45PM isn't so bad.
And there's always the garage.
To start with, we could meet in ENS 313. It's a big room, fairly flexible
arrangement of tables and chairs, no hassle to reserve, and it's in the center
of the CS/Engineering part of campus.
I'm fine keeping the day on Tuesday for now, and a meetup time of 6PM still
makes sense for me.
Also, I've invested in a portable access point. Most students should have
wireless access through UT, so it's just visitors I need to accommodate (like
myself).
We're planning on having our next meetup on January 10, the week before the
first day of class. We'll continue working on the chemistry balancing problem,
but I've got a couple of ideas for problems if people are ready to move on.
Then, on January 24, we'll have a publicly advertised "Real World Code Review"
event on campus. Lane Smith has generously volunteers to have his code
reviewed by everyone publicly. At the event, we'll discuss a little bit the
nature of code reviews, different ways they can be managed in a professional
setting, and then we'll jump into Lane's code.
How does this sound? In the meantime, I've updated the calendar [1] and the
wiki [2]. Let me know how all of this sounds to you all.
Hope you all are enjoying your holiday.
-Sukant
[1] http://code.google.com/p/atx-sw-mentors/wiki/Calendar
[2] http://code.google.com/p/atx-sw-mentors/wiki/UpcomingEvents