[Charlug] Re: CharLUG Digest, Vol 35, Issue 5

[Brian Gryder]

I will be there. :)

10am.
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
 SouthPark Mall
4345 Barclay Downs Drive
Charlotte, NC 28209
(704) 602-9800
shortened google map URL: http://is.gd/3a9pf




On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM, <charlug-request at charlug.org> wrote:

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>   1. Re: Meeting on Saturday? (Dennis Clark)
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> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:06:38 -0400
> From: Dennis Clark <boomfish at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Charlug] Meeting on Saturday?
> To: "Brian J. Miller" <wiggins at danconia.org>
> Cc: charlug at charlug.org
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> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Brian J. Miller <wiggins at danconia.org
> >wrot=3D
> 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
> =3D
> 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=3D
> 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 lea=
ve
> > 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=3D
> hs
> >> ago on Subversion vs. Git. My opinion at the time was that only large
> >> development teams would benefit from distributed version control syste=
ms
> >> (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=3D
> 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
> :-=3D
> ).
> >> 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), b=
ut
> > was curious if someone had a means to make whatever previous contact th=
ey
> > 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; may=
be
> Bob (or someone else here) can enlighten us?
>
>  Cheers,
>
> -- Dennis
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