[Charlug] Meeting on Saturday?

[Brian J. Miller]

Dennis Clark wrote:
> Indeed. With Bob and Leam noticeably absent nobody has stepped up to
> coordinate the meetings.
> I propose changing this month's meeting to Saturday September 12th. I also
> propose having the meeting at Joseph-Beth booksellers at Southpark Mall. All
> our previous meetings this year have been in far South-East Charlotte (and
> beyond) where there was nothing of interest to me nearby. Southpark also
> serves as a public transit hub, which is convenient for those who prefer
> alternatives to driving. Joseph-Beth also offers free WiFi. We can still
> keep the usual start time of 10am.
> 

Ironically this may be the first and only meeting I ever make, but I 
think I actually can if the above date+time+place is agreed to. I'm 
willing to try to make others, and this location or the previous one on 
Elizabeth Ave (which is now re-opened) definitely increases that 
potential. Alas, I hedge as I too am "crazystupidwicked" busy (as C. 
Michael put it), unfortunately (or fortunately) having a 7 month old and 
working full time doesn't leave room for much else.

> As for a meeting topic, I'd like us to talk about open-source version
> control systems. We had an interesting discussion on the list a few months
> ago on Subversion vs. Git. My opinion at the time was that only large
> development teams would benefit from distributed version control systems
> (DVCS), but now I see that many small software projects (especially
> open-source ones) can benefit from DVCS. I also noticed that there are a
> growing number of options for Git hosting (from GitHub to paid hosting)
> which means a lot less work to get started with Git.
> 

I'd be interested in that and can talk somewhat intelligently as a user 
of them. Additionally our company has developed (I use that term 
loosely) and released (as in speech) a "product" (I use that term even 
more loosely) that builds on svn and Git to provide a full development 
environment. I've been planning to prepare a real talk on the subject, 
and was hoping a better product would be released soon, but neither is 
likely to happen, but I can be somewhat prepared to fill time with info 
about it if necessary. For reference,

http://www.devcamps.org/

> As part of this topic, I'd also appreciate it if someone could present a
> "Trac for Dummies" primer. I have a GeekISP account that includes
> Subversion/Trac and would be interested in using it to collaborate with some
> other Web developers in the local area for some pet projects. However I've
> never set up Trac before and I don't want to spend a lot of time learning
> how to be a Trac admin.
> 
> Alternative suggestions for time, place, and topic are welcome; however the
> first person to object becomes the meeting coordinator for this month :-).
> If nobody responds either positively or negatively to my proposal, consider
> this month's meeting cancelled (and the group dead).
> 

I'm not "suggesting" the alternative of Eliz. avenue (you *really* don't 
want me coordinating anything otherwise I guarantee it won't happen), 
but was curious if someone had a means to make whatever previous contact 
they had and see if this is a reasonable location again.

> Cheers,
> 
> Dennis
> 

-- 
Brian J. Miller
End Point Corp.
http://www.endpoint.com/
brian at endpoint.com