Outcome of last week's reboot meeting...

[Paul Wilson]

Hi everyone,

Thanks to those who came to last week's meeting to reboot the U. Wisconsin chapter of the Hacker Within.  We had a reasonable turnout and discussed a number of topics that would be of interest to many.

tl;dr

We'll meet next on Friday, Jan 31, at 12 noon (bring your own lunch) in a location to be determined.  The topic of that meeting will be "Writing websites in Jekyll on Github", largely to allow future presenters to be able to update the site themselves.  I'll probably tackle this myself.

Other topics for future meetings

We were able to brainstorm a fairly extensive list of topics.  Two important observations:

1. The list of those committed to giving presentations is severely lacking student contributions.  This effort will only succeed if students are willing to share their own experiences.  It is not a course: it is a community of peers who are learning from each other.
2. The list of topics is NOT closed.  If you have an idea that you are interested in - or even better, interested in presenting! - then please feel free to add it to the list.
   

Those with potential presenters

• "Dangers of dynamic web content" - Michelle Craft
• "Reproducible Linux environment"  - Paul Wilson
• "Stackedit.io" - Jean-Yves Sgro
• "Intro to Latex" - Meghan McGarry
• "Hobby Hacks/Web Server Tricks" - Robert Carlsen

Topics without identified presenters

• Software distribution practices
• Managing multiple python versions
• cloud options
• Hobby hacks: capslock, horror stories
• Different dev environments: Charm, ipython, spyder, etc. - comparison or orientation
• How to sell version control (or software) to collaborators
• SQL
• Keyboard shortcuts
• SSH voodoo (ssh tunnels, etc.)
• Religious battles: text editors, presentation SW, version control SW, website creation,
• Using VMs, containers (docker)
• Web page creation (knitr, sphinx)
• Self-marketing (making a personal website)
• GPUs and CUDA
• Julia
• Useful Libraries (esp. for visualization): pandas, matplotlib, ggplot2, open_gl, etc.
• make, cmake, scons
• Licenses: open source
• Strategic search hacks
• large scale computing

Stay tuned for the location for the 1/31 meetings and please come and bring your friends.

Paul

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[Paul Wilson]

Hi all

That is supposed to be Friday, Jan 30.

Paul

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