[Charlug] Meeting on Saturday?

[Dennis Clark]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Brian J. Miller <wiggins at danconia.org>wrot=
e:
>
>
> 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 hed=
ge
> 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.


Cool. Is anyone else able to make this Saturday at Joseph-Beth? Two
attendees is not much of a User Group meeting.


>
>  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 mont=
hs
>> 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) t=
hat
> 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/
>

Sounds interesting! I'm totally fine with informal discussions for this
meet. Earlier this year I used another local user group to test run a more
formal talk I had to do a couple of months later, and the feedback I got
from the group was quite valuable in helping me improve my formal talk. This
can be an opportunity for you to do something similar.


>
>> 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.
>

Don't worry, I won't put you on the hook for that. I've never attended a LUG
meet at the Elizabeth Ave. location; the first time I tried the location had
just closed for construction. I don't know who was the contact there; maybe
Bob (or someone else here) can enlighten us?

 Cheers,

-- Dennis
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