Cereal & Code

E Liu

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Oct 10, 2012, 9:01:39 AM10/10/12

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We're hosting an event for people to just come hack on whatever they want to work on.

Make some progress on whatever project you're currently working on, meet some other hackers and work on a project with them, eat some Golden Grahams, and have a good time.

This audience is targeted towards developers, designers, anyone who builds things or has work to do and wants a time/place to hunker down and make some progress on their project.

Chad and I decided to put this together because we feel there are a lot of events around chicago for people to schmooze, but not enough events for people who actually build stuff to hunker down and hack in the presence of others. The coffee shop circuit can be a lonely existence, and paying 100 bucks to go to some hackathon, only to be pitched by bizdev guys who want you to build their product for them is really frustrating.

It's 5 bucks a head, just because we want to buy cereal, milk, bowls and spoons for everyone. The leftover cash is going to go to Venture SHOT, our host, or if they don't care, we'll just take the remaining cash and buy beer for anyone who sticks around long enough.

Sign up!

--ezl

Rooshdi Ali

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Oct 11, 2012, 1:05:24 PM10/11/12

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Sounds neat. Do we get to eat coco puffs all day?

Chad Glendenin

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Oct 12, 2012, 3:48:13 PM10/12/12

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Sure, as long as you're also there to build stuff. :) Personally, I'm
looking forward to Cinnamon Life. Always had that as a kid.

BTW, I'm thinking about setting up some kind of a directory so we know
who's going and what they plan to work on. I'm planning on building a
small web app from scratch with TypeScript and AngularJS.

Clint Laskowski

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Oct 12, 2012, 3:50:30 PM10/12/12

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Cereal and Beer, yum :-)

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Rooshdi Ali <roosh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Rooshdi Ali

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Oct 12, 2012, 3:55:17 PM10/12/12

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Sweet. I'll probably work on a rails app I'm launching soon.

On Oct 12, 2012 2:48 PM, "Chad Glendenin" <ch...@glendenin.com> wrote:

Sure, as long as you're also there to build stuff. :) Personally, I'm
looking forward to Cinnamon Life. Always had that as a kid.

BTW, I'm thinking about setting up some kind of a directory so we know
who's going and what they plan to work on. I'm planning on building a
small web app from scratch with TypeScript and AngularJS.

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Rooshdi Ali <roosh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds neat. Do we g...

Chad Glendenin

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Oct 12, 2012, 4:07:45 PM10/12/12

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There's a non-zero probability of some nice whisky showing up as well…

Tathagata Dasgupta

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Oct 12, 2012, 4:12:46 PM10/12/12

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I always add chocolate chips, raisins and honey to my kellogg's corn
flakes ... sprinkle in some nuts and then pour chilled milk on it!

I'm planning to work on a phonegap app that me and a friend has
started working on at Braintree/Singly-s hackathon. They were using
hackathon.io to manage everything. It was pretty neat.

BTW, what's the line up for cartoons? I saw T&J, P&B, ... how about some Batman?

--
Cheers,
T

Rooshdi Ali

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Oct 12, 2012, 4:50:59 PM10/12/12

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As long as no ones spiking my bowl, I'm good.

On Oct 12, 2012 3:08 PM, "Chad Glendenin" <ch...@glendenin.com> wrote:

There's a non-zero probability of some nice whisky showing up as well…

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Clint Laskowski
<clint.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Cereal and B...

E

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Oct 12, 2012, 6:55:37 PM10/12/12

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great idea.... we'll make sure we have those things on hand!

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