From jason at hostedlabs.com Wed Jul 5 16:18:15 2006 From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:18:15 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] BARcamp Chicago 2006, July 15-16 Message-ID: <44AC1E87.2030800@hostedlabs.com> Hello everyone! July is turning out to be a great month for Chicago Tech! As most of you have probably heard BARcamp Chicago ( http://barcampchicago.com/ ) is on for 15-16 July at 648 w Randolph. Also note that tomorrow night (6th July) TECHcocktail ( http://www.techcocktail.com/blog/ ) is happening at 935 w Webster (STATE). It looks like its going to be a fun time! Also a new group meeting has been shaping up for regular code jamming or hack sessions. Take a look at: http://techcoffee.infogami.com/ BARcamp is looking to be a good weekend and will be a combined event with the Chicago Linux Users Group meeting. There are close to 70 people expected for BARcamp plus the Linux User community.. So far the agenda looks to have the following in the mix: 1) 48 hour dot com project - a showcase for the RAD development platforms, Chicago tech savvy and entrepreneurial spirit. Friendly competition of RubyOnRails, PHP, Python in building agile user applications.. (see: http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=The24hrDotCom) 2) Discussions on building scalable high-performance next-gen web applications (see: http://jasonrexilius.com/GloballyDistributedWebCluster.php ) 3) Building a Chicago coworking environment (see: http://coworking.pbwiki.com/ ) 4) Linux install fest and discussions (see: http://luni.org/wiki/index.php/Conference ) The after party will be Sunday night at Rodan on Milwaukee, (see: http://www.rodan.ws/default.html ) We have a few sponsors and many in the community have offered to help bring supplies and equipment, but we are still looking for sponsors as we have to rent the facility and pay for event insurance. We currently have the following companies offering assistance: Brian Schoen of Real Network Solutions http://www.realnets.com/ Dan Ratner of SitterCity.com http://www.sittercity.com/ Sean Johnson of Intentionally Designed http://www.intentionallydesigned.com/ Also looking for any other discussion ideas or projects! Check out the site, reply to the email, give me a call or just show up! We are short on the Java side by the way.. I know all the java people are boring corporate stiffs but.. oh wait, save my language flame warring for the event.. Also we are short Perl peoples... where are the rest of the hackers? At any rate, I am looking forward to seeing you all there and hope everyone had a good 4th! - Jason Rexilius jason at hostedlabs.com 847.208.1000 From jason at hostedlabs.com Wed Jul 5 15:40:22 2006 From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:40:22 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] BARcamp Chicago 15-16 July Message-ID: <44AC15A6.7040207@hostedlabs.com> Hello everyone! July is turning out to be a great month for Chicago Tech! As most of you have probably heard BARcamp Chicago ( http://barcampchicago.com/ ) is on for 15-16 July at 648 w Randolph. Also note that tomorrow night (6th July) TECHcocktail ( http://www.techcocktail.com/blog/ ) is happening at 935 w Webster (STATE). It looks like its going to be a fun time! Also a new group meeting has been shaping up for regular code jamming or hack sessions. Take a look at: http://techcoffee.infogami.com/ BARcamp is looking to be a good weekend and will be a combined event with the Chicago Linux Users Group meeting. There are close to 70 people expected for BARcamp plus the Linux User community.. So far the agenda looks to have the following in the mix: 1) 48 hour dot com project - a showcase for the RAD development platforms, Chicago tech savvy and entrepreneurial spirit. Friendly competition of RubyOnRails, PHP, Python in building agile user applications.. (see: http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=The24hrDotCom) 2) Discussions on building scalable high-performance next-gen web applications (see: http://jasonrexilius.com/GloballyDistributedWebCluster.php ) 3) Building a Chicago coworking environment (see: http://coworking.pbwiki.com/ ) 4) Linux install fest and discussions (see: http://luni.org/wiki/index.php/Conference ) The after party will be Sunday night at Rodan on Milwaukee, (see: http://www.rodan.ws/default.html ) We have a few sponsors and many in the community have offered to help bring supplies and equipment, but we are still looking for sponsors as we have to rent the facility and pay for event insurance. We currently have the following companies offering assistance: Brian Schoen of Real Network Solutions http://www.realnets.com/ Dan Ratner of SitterCity.com http://www.sittercity.com/ Sean Johnson of Intentionally Designed http://www.intentionallydesigned.com/ Also looking for any other discussion ideas or projects! Check out the site, reply to the email, give me a call or just show up! We are short on the Java side by the way.. I know all the java people are boring corporate stiffs but.. oh wait, save my language flame warring for the event.. Also we are short Perl peoples... where are the rest of the hackers? At any rate, I am looking forward to seeing you all there and hope everyone had a good 4th! - Jason Rexilius jason at hostedlabs.com 847.208.1000 From ng at johnwlong.com Fri Jul 7 01:08:34 2006 From: ng at johnwlong.com (John W. Long) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:08:34 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Slides from Chirb Message-ID: <44ADEC52.5020905@johnwlong.com> Just put these up on the blog: http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/07/07/slides-from-chirb/ The meeting was wonderful! If you were one of the attendees, thanks for putting me at ease and asking lots of great questions. Until next time... -- John Long http://wiseheartdesign.com/ From ryan at platte.name Fri Jul 7 09:57:51 2006 From: ryan at platte.name (Ryan Platte) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:57:51 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Slides from Chirb In-Reply-To: <44ADEC52.5020905@johnwlong.com> References: <44ADEC52.5020905@johnwlong.com> Message-ID: <2f1a1dcb0607070657y16d6d4e7o2267274cc208a813@mail.gmail.com> Thanks, John. Nice presentation, and it was fun to throw ideas around. On 7/7/06, John W. Long wrote: > > Just put these up on the blog: > > http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/07/07/slides-from-chirb/ > > The meeting was wonderful! If you were one of the attendees, thanks for > putting me at ease and asking lots of great questions. > > Until next time... > -- Ryan Platte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: fun.rb Url: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060707/f861619f/attachment-0003.pl From ryan at platte.name Fri Jul 7 17:36:33 2006 From: ryan at platte.name (Ryan Platte) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:36:33 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Fullscreen windows on Mac Message-ID: <2f1a1dcb0607071436l2fe4a9faw584f8a04fdf1d60a@mail.gmail.com> I don't know who brought this up last night, but the TextMate blog just recently linked to this utility that will resize the current window to take up the full screen: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html -- Ryan Platte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060707/c76bbbd6/attachment.html From rubygroup at johnwlong.com Mon Jul 10 17:49:34 2006 From: rubygroup at johnwlong.com (John W. Long) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:49:34 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] Fullscreen windows on Mac In-Reply-To: <2f1a1dcb0607071436l2fe4a9faw584f8a04fdf1d60a@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f1a1dcb0607071436l2fe4a9faw584f8a04fdf1d60a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <44B2CB6E.6080707@johnwlong.com> Ryan Platte wrote: > I don't know who brought this up last night, but the TextMate blog just > recently linked to this utility that will resize the current window to take > up the full screen: > > http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html This looks interesting. Do you find it useful? For what? -- John Long http://wiseheartdesign.com From schallpete at gmail.com Mon Jul 10 18:10:37 2006 From: schallpete at gmail.com (Pete Schall) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:10:37 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Fullscreen windows on Mac In-Reply-To: <2f1a1dcb0607071436l2fe4a9faw584f8a04fdf1d60a@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f1a1dcb0607071436l2fe4a9faw584f8a04fdf1d60a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: You can also use Witch and assign a hotkey to resize the current window to take up the full screen. 'Zoom', I guess, which doesn't always work as you'd hope :) http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=witch Just another option. -- Pete Schall On 7/7/06, Ryan Platte wrote: > > I don't know who brought this up last night, but the TextMate blog just > recently linked to this utility that will resize the current window to take > up the full screen: > > http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html > > -- > Ryan Platte > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060710/e369cf9e/attachment.html From ryan at platte.name Mon Jul 10 21:47:13 2006 From: ryan at platte.name (Ryan Platte) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:47:13 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Fullscreen windows on Mac In-Reply-To: <44B2CB6E.6080707@johnwlong.com> References: <2f1a1dcb0607071436l2fe4a9faw584f8a04fdf1d60a@mail.gmail.com> <44B2CB6E.6080707@johnwlong.com> Message-ID: <2f1a1dcb0607101847u32956921u283a3a7b29d3488f@mail.gmail.com> On 7/10/06, John W. Long wrote: > > > I don't know who brought this up last night, but the TextMate blog just > > recently linked to this utility that will resize the current window to > take > > up the full screen: > > > > http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html > > This looks interesting. Do you find it useful? For what? No, I have no use for such a thing. I recalled somebody wishing for it in our Mac conversation before the group coding exercise, then saw this referenced on the TextMate blog the next day. -- Ryan Platte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060710/50de81a8/attachment.html From jason at hostedlabs.com Tue Jul 11 13:08:15 2006 From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:08:15 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] BARcamp Chicago Update Message-ID: All, So things are shaping up nicely! The Agenda pages are up and the Help page has been updated with what people should bring, what people can help with, and what is being provided. Check it out from the main page: http://barcampchicago.com/ If you are giving a talk, organizing a project, or want to do something in particular, PLEASE UPDATE THE AGENDA PAGE. If you want to chip in for help, check out the Help page and update it with your name next to what you will bring. If you or your company would like to chip in for sponsorship, we are still a few bills short, please email me. Big thanks to the companies and people that are chipping in and sponsoring so far! This has been really encouraging to see how much interest there is in helping build our Chicago tech community! Hope everyones week is going well and look forward to seeing you all there! -jason From chris.mcavoy at gmail.com Thu Jul 13 09:58:06 2006 From: chris.mcavoy at gmail.com (Chris McAvoy) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:58:06 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] The Rudolph Hering Society Message-ID: <3096c19d0607130658l16f2e87em805904394d95e8c1@mail.gmail.com> Announcing the creation of *The Rudolph Hering Society* ======================================================= Named for the man that hacked the Chicago River, the RHS preserves the legacy of this great engineer through the open discussion of technology that scares the squares. Programming, development methodologies, testing paradigms, continuous integration, electronics, Radio Shack, bottle rockets, and bread baking are all open topics on the lively RHS mailing list. How do I become a member? ------------------------- You already are. Just join the mailing list to start talking http://lists.rudolphheringsociety.org/listinfo.cgi/river-rudolphheringsociety.org Do we have meetings? -------------------- Sure. Do we have a website? --------------------- Sort of, we have a wiki at http://rudolphheringsociety.org Do we have an irc channel? -------------------------- Sort of, #hering on irc.freenode.net It's not really "formal" yet. Do I have to live in Chicago to join? ------------------------------------- Hell no. Will we have buttons, t-shirts, and those funny little badges for my blog? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hell yes. Wait, this really has nothing to do with Rudolph Hering, you're just using his name as a quirky title to your silly club. ---------------- Says you. Project number one at the RHS is to research Mr. Hering and create a fitting wikipedia page for the man. The RHS, in addition to being a silly club, is committed to preserving the legacy of the man whose feats make you go, "What? How'd he do that?" What's this really about? ------------------------- This really smart guy named Ed Summers wrote this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/2006-July/000983.html yesterday, and it got me thinking that we really need a group that has no allegiances to any one language, platform, or hobby. What we need is a society of like minded individualists who think that technology is about more than what you can get paid for. Sure, we all like getting paid to do what we do, but chances are we'd still be doing it if we didn't get paid. Would Rudolph have reversed the flow of the Chicago River had he not been paid? Probably not. Quit being a nitpicker. Do we have a headquarters? -------------------------- Yes, it's a mysterious building somewhere on the northwest side of Chicago. Who is getting this email? -------------------------- The first burst is going to chipy, chirb, chicago.pm, and luni. Please pass this on. This is an open society...we like Java, .NET, Fortran, and white bread. From JScruggs at thoughtworks.com Mon Jul 17 14:27:27 2006 From: JScruggs at thoughtworks.com (Jake Scruggs) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:27:27 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting Message-ID: I was wondering if there was anyone lined up for the next Chirb meeting (Monday, August 7th if we're gonna do the first Monday)? If not, I volunteer to do something on Streamlined (http://www.streamlinedframework.com/) which was one of the cooler things I saw at RailsConf. Think scafolding that understands relationships between tables and a web 2.0 interface. The demo looked freakin' awesome and they just released it a few days ago so I'm dying for a reason to play with it. If people are interested I could do an hour presentation plus some activizes for pairing. -Jake Scruggs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060717/57f016ed/attachment.html From gensym at mac.com Mon Jul 17 14:50:57 2006 From: gensym at mac.com (David Altenburg) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:50:57 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <69F8C8EF-CC31-4703-B86C-ACF661E91F54@mac.com> I'd be interested. The demo at RailsConf was freaking sweet but also very short. A more in-depth demo would be great. Given that it's very alpha right now, something that might be cool is to take something currently missing or broken about it and pair up to make it better and submit a patch. That would be more work, but I'd be glad to give you a hand with that if you want. - or maybe that's what you meant by activities for pairing. Thanks, David On Jul 17, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > I was wondering if there was anyone lined up for the next Chirb > meeting (Monday, August 7th if we're gonna do the first Monday)? > > If not, I volunteer to do something on Streamlined (http:// > www.streamlinedframework.com/) which was one of the cooler things I > saw at RailsConf. Think scafolding that understands relationships > between tables and a web 2.0 interface. The demo looked freakin' > awesome and they just released it a few days ago so I'm dying for a > reason to play with it. > > If people are interested I could do an hour presentation plus some > activizes for pairing. > -Jake Scruggs > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list From ryan at platte.name Mon Jul 17 16:19:13 2006 From: ryan at platte.name (Ryan Platte) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:19:13 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2f1a1dcb0607171319kd76a103gd56cb6d9ad4061d0@mail.gmail.com> It's 3 PM Monday. Anybody else who'd like to be considered for the August meeting, please speak up in the next 24 hours and we'll . Otherwise, this sounds like a great idea. On 7/17/06, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > I was wondering if there was anyone lined up for the next Chirb meeting > (Monday, August 7th if we're gonna do the first Monday)? > > If not, I volunteer to do something on Streamlined ( > http://www.streamlinedframework.com/) which was one of the cooler things I > saw at RailsConf. Think scafolding that understands relationships between > tables and a web 2.0 interface. The demo looked freakin' awesome and they > just released it a few days ago so I'm dying for a reason to play with it. > > If people are interested I could do an hour presentation plus some > activizes for pairing. > -- Ryan Platte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060717/330278f6/attachment-0001.html From JScruggs at thoughtworks.com Mon Jul 17 17:55:56 2006 From: JScruggs at thoughtworks.com (Jake Scruggs) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:55:56 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: <69F8C8EF-CC31-4703-B86C-ACF661E91F54@mac.com> Message-ID: How 'bout a choice of activities: Fixing a bug or Getting Streamlined up and running for a sample project (which was what I had in mind, originally) People could do one or both as time permits. If you (or anyone else) could help me out with suggestions for what bug to fix (which might be tricky as I suspect lots of bugs will get fixed before Aug 7th) that would be cool. -Jake chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/17/2006 01:50:57 PM: > I'd be interested. The demo at RailsConf was freaking sweet but also > very short. A more in-depth demo would be great. > > Given that it's very alpha right now, something that might be cool is > to take something currently missing or broken about it and pair up to > make it better and submit a patch. That would be more work, but I'd > be glad to give you a hand with that if you want. - or maybe that's > what you meant by activities for pairing. > > Thanks, > > David > > On Jul 17, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > > > I was wondering if there was anyone lined up for the next Chirb > > meeting (Monday, August 7th if we're gonna do the first Monday)? > > > > If not, I volunteer to do something on Streamlined (http:// > > www.streamlinedframework.com/) which was one of the cooler things I > > saw at RailsConf. Think scafolding that understands relationships > > between tables and a web 2.0 interface. The demo looked freakin' > > awesome and they just released it a few days ago so I'm dying for a > > reason to play with it. > > > > If people are interested I could do an hour presentation plus some > > activizes for pairing. > > -Jake Scruggs > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060717/45a0beee/attachment.html From curt.hibbs at gmail.com Mon Jul 17 18:00:34 2006 From: curt.hibbs at gmail.com (Curt Hibbs) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:00:34 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: References: <69F8C8EF-CC31-4703-B86C-ACF661E91F54@mac.com> Message-ID: <31d15f490607171500k627a52bx2892fc836f307ecc@mail.gmail.com> Jake, if you do this, I'd love to get a copy of your slides because I was thinking about doing this for the September meeting of the St. Louis Ruby Users Group. Curt On 7/17/06, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > How 'bout a choice of activities: > Fixing a bug > or > Getting Streamlined up and running for a sample project (which was what I > had in mind, originally) > > People could do one or both as time permits. > > If you (or anyone else) could help me out with suggestions for what bug to > fix (which might be tricky as I suspect lots of bugs will get fixed before > Aug 7th) that would be cool. > > -Jake > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/17/2006 > 01:50:57 PM: > > > > I'd be interested. The demo at RailsConf was freaking sweet but also > > very short. A more in-depth demo would be great. > > > > Given that it's very alpha right now, something that might be cool is > > to take something currently missing or broken about it and pair up to > > make it better and submit a patch. That would be more work, but I'd > > be glad to give you a hand with that if you want. - or maybe that's > > what you meant by activities for pairing. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > On Jul 17, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > > > > > > I was wondering if there was anyone lined up for the next Chirb > > > meeting (Monday, August 7th if we're gonna do the first Monday)? > > > > > > If not, I volunteer to do something on Streamlined (http:// > > > www.streamlinedframework.com/) which was one of the cooler things I > > > saw at RailsConf. Think scafolding that understands relationships > > > between tables and a web 2.0 interface. The demo looked freakin' > > > awesome and they just released it a few days ago so I'm dying for a > > > reason to play with it. > > > > > > If people are interested I could do an hour presentation plus some > > > activizes for pairing. > > > -Jake Scruggs > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Otherwise, this > sounds like a great idea. > > > On 7/17/06, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > > > > I was wondering if there was anyone lined up for the next Chirb meeting > > (Monday, August 7th if we're gonna do the first Monday)? > > > > If not, I volunteer to do something on Streamlined ( > > http://www.streamlinedframework.com/) which was one of the cooler things > > I saw at RailsConf. Think scafolding that understands relationships between > > tables and a web 2.0 interface. The demo looked freakin' awesome and > > they just released it a few days ago so I'm dying for a reason to play with > > it. > > > > If people are interested I could do an hour presentation plus some > > activizes for pairing. > > > > > > -- > Ryan Platte > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060717/a6f85468/attachment.html From JScruggs at thoughtworks.com Mon Jul 17 18:15:26 2006 From: JScruggs at thoughtworks.com (Jake Scruggs) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:15:26 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: <7e757dc00607171344k7459c893nf6b487fda8f6ef5c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I think Ryan meant that if you don't respond before 3pm tomorrow (Tues), we're doing' it. The actual meeting time will still be the usual 6:30pm on Aug 7th. does that help? -Jake "Brendan Baldwin" Sent by: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org 07/17/2006 03:44 PM Please respond to Chirb discussion list To "Chirb discussion list" cc Subject Re: [Chirb] August 7th meeting 3PM --? hoping that was a numeric keypad typo for 6PM? --Brendan On 7/17/06, Ryan Platte wrote: It's 3 PM Monday. Anybody else who'd like to be considered for the August meeting, please speak up in the next 24 hours and we'll . Otherwise, this sounds like a great idea. On 7/17/06, Jake Scruggs wrote: I was wondering if there was anyone lined up for the next Chirb meeting (Monday, August 7th if we're gonna do the first Monday)? If not, I volunteer to do something on Streamlined ( http://www.streamlinedframework.com/ ) which was one of the cooler things I saw at RailsConf. Think scafolding that understands relationships between tables and a web 2.0 interface. The demo looked freakin' awesome and they just released it a few days ago so I'm dying for a reason to play with it. If people are interested I could do an hour presentation plus some activizes for pairing. -- Ryan Platte _______________________________________________ ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list _______________________________________________ ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060717/b7ac912a/attachment-0001.html From ryan at platte.name Tue Jul 18 20:12:43 2006 From: ryan at platte.name (Ryan Platte) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:12:43 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: References: <69F8C8EF-CC31-4703-B86C-ACF661E91F54@mac.com> Message-ID: <2f1a1dcb0607181712i618757efo47dfd0f7d946055d@mail.gmail.com> OK, Jake, looks like you're on for August! I'm looking forward to trying Streamlined. On 7/17/06, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > How 'bout a choice of activities: > Fixing a bug > or > Getting Streamlined up and running for a sample project (which was what I > had in mind, originally) > > People could do one or both as time permits. > > If you (or anyone else) could help me out with suggestions for what bug to > fix (which might be tricky as I suspect lots of bugs will get fixed before > Aug 7th) that would be cool. > -- Ryan Platte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060718/5e037183/attachment.html From cosine at cosine.org Thu Jul 20 01:21:42 2006 From: cosine at cosine.org (Michael H Buselli) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:21:42 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: References: <7e757dc00607171344k7459c893nf6b487fda8f6ef5c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <406d2d610607192221y622269d6s4ef8e539d59788ae@mail.gmail.com> On 7/17/06, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > I think Ryan meant that if you don't respond before 3pm tomorrow (Tues), > we're doing' it. The actual meeting time will still be the usual 6:30pm on > Aug 7th. > does that help? > I was hoping he meant that people could come early and start hacking together prior to the main presentation. :) --Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20060720/fc238f8e/attachment.html From jason at hostedlabs.com Thu Jul 20 14:57:38 2006 From: jason at hostedlabs.com (jason at hostedlabs.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:57:38 UT Subject: [Chirb] BARcamp Summary Message-ID: <20060720185738.0ECAF278F4CC@www.arctg.com> Hi Everybody, I just wanted to thank everyone for making BARcamp such a success. I also wanted to recap for those that couldn't make it and make a few requests to the group. So first let me thank everyone who presented, organized or sponsored: * Troy Haaland - helped mop floors, and clean up after (I really needed the help, thanks Troy!) * Garret Smith - brought liquor, tended bar, signage, conversation packet router * Richard Lynch - material support, conversations, helping hand * Sarah Gray - donated butcher paper and projector so we could write and see * Dan Ratner - donated camping furniture, supported the temporarily disabled * Brian Schoen - brought the Billy Goat CheezBorga for starving organizers * My Linh Le - All around hot girl, donated SUV, food stuffs and camping furniture, puts up with Jason Rexilius ;-) * Walker Hamilton - presenter, mischief maker * Jonathan Wolf Rentzsch - presenter, tie display mannequin * Jason Jacobsohn - presenter * Joe Born - device debugger * Ziad Hussain - presenter * Matt England - presenter * Chris Gladwin - presenter * Jim Wales - presenter, political rabble-rouser, really cool guy * Sean Johnson - presenter, conspirator * Mason Dixon - presenter * Ian Bicking - code sprinter, hacker, good guy * Johnathon Andrew Walter - conspirator * John Quigley - brought beer, nuf said * Wendell Davis - conspirator * Michael Tobis - presenter * David Dalka - Marketing / Customer Listening evangelist leadership resource for high growth start ups. * Realnets - sponsor http://www.realnets.com/ * SitterCity.com - sponsor http://www.sittercity.com/ * Portage Venture Partners - sponsor http://www.portageventures.com/ * Arc Technology Group - sponsor http://www.arctg.com/ * Intentionally Designed - sponsor http://www.intentionallydesigned.com/ * Mail Launder - sponsor http://www.maillaunder.com/ * Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center - sponsor http://www.chicagolandec.org/ * CleverSafe - sponsor http://www.cleversafe.org/ * Neuros - sponsor http://www.neurostechnology.com/ Here is what happened for those that missed it: Friday 09:00 - setup begins, Troy and My Linh help me out. Troy goes nuts with the mop and the Pinesol.. Saturday 12:00 - people started showing up en masse.. 12:30 - jason runs around like chicken, sans head, Garrett brings liquor, fetches ice 13:00 - we tapped the first keg 13:30 - Ziad Hussain gave a history-rich talk on mobile handheld multimedia and gaming appliances and the new GP2x linux device specifically 14:00 - Garrett threw up some break-out area conversation topic signs 14:00 - the Chicago Linux Users Group started their Uber fest 14:30 - lots of side discussions about web2.0, XML transforms, seed funding in Chicago (lack thereof) 15:00 - second keg from LUG is tapped 16:00 - Cleversafe gives talk on their approach to secure, distributed storage, its uses, and their roadmap 17:00 - A code sprint gets organized for HyperCard implementation in Javascript w/ light server side 17:30 - lots of food runs 18:00 - HyperCard code sprint continues 18:00 - Mason Dixon gave a talk on Motion User Interface, A presentation of flows within the development of interactive high-data rate displays 18:45 - Sean Johnson gives a talk on Burning Your Business to the Ground, or what mistakes a start-up should avoid. By the way, the resources mentioned in that talk are up on the BARcamp main page 19:30 - Michael Tobis gave a talk on Programmable Educational Media, shared programmable widgets and a shared environment in which the widgets can interact, to teach programming or other quantitative topics. 20:30 - Jim Wales gave a quick talk on Wikipedia and a longer talk on Campaign Wiki, which is organizing a meetup event here in Chicago 29 July, linked to on the BARcamp main page 21:30 - Lots of informal talks about the Chicago tech scene, HyperCard hacking, Wikis and clubs, pubs, and parties. Sunday 05:00 - talks from the night before finally wind down, the last camper is tucked neatly into his sleeping bag, visions of code and AJAX widgets dancing in his head. 06:00 - jason sleeps 07:00 - jason wakes, goes to shower and fetch another fan (damn it was hot!) 09:00 - people start showing up for day 2, light talks, coffee is brewed.. extra strong 12:00 - some spontaneous talk was given.. can't remember which.. uhh.. more coffee 13:00 - script kiddie posse shows up, a little playing around with lock picking, video presentations, little rapscallions ;-) 14:00 - jason rexilius gives boring talk on building geographically distributed HA web clusters 15:00 - Jonathan Wolf Rentzsch gives a great talk on Mac OSX GUI hacking in Cocoa and Objective C, really cool 16:00 - Jason Jacobsohn introduces the crew to the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center and what it can do for YOU! Nicely done! 17:00 - food?.. 19:00 - spontaneous meeting of the minds on the challenges facing a tech start-up in Chicago, problems in building community, and what to do about it. The answer: The Chicago CoWorking Incubator Project. Take energetic, entrepreneurial tech folks, add beer, heat and creativity and you get an action plan. See the details on the main page of the BARcamp site. 21:30 - jason, groggily, chases the last of the hardcore campers away so he can sleep.. ooh sweet sleep, how I miss thee so. Monday 06:00 - clean up and return of borrowed tables and chairs begins, Troy Halaand throws in for help, yet again. Thanks Troy! So here is what came out of BARcamp Chicago 2006: 1) An open source project to bring HyperCard back from the dead 2) A CoWorking project to build a central hub for the community and a home for wayward entrepreneurs 3) Lots of idea sharing, introductions, conversations and learning 4) Some entrepreneurs who were looking for teammates for start-ups met some rock-star hackers, we shall see what comes of it 5) Companies met business partners and a few successful collaboration stories came of it. 6) A number of the stealth tech start-ups in Chicago saw some spotlight Lastly I would like to make a request of people who were there: 1) If you gave a talk, mentioned a resource, or had something to share, get some reference material or a link up on the BARcamp site so people can find it 2) If I missed a shout out, a presentation or a thank you thats in order, please let me know. I know I missed stuff.. 3) Check back on the BARcamp site for updates on the various other events that are coming up and support those; nextChicago, campaign wiki, CoWorking Chicago, user group meetings.. theres a lot happening! Thanks again to everyone that showed up, participated, supported and donated! See you all at the next event! -jason Unsubscribe Now: http://intouch.arctg.com/arcmail/modprofile.arc?a=023a51981b2a65f0232675583628b565&b=265 From mrnicksgirl at gmail.com Thu Jul 20 15:08:19 2006 From: mrnicksgirl at gmail.com (Nola Stowe) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:08:19 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August 7th meeting In-Reply-To: <406d2d610607192221y622269d6s4ef8e539d59788ae@mail.gmail.com> References: <7e757dc00607171344k7459c893nf6b487fda8f6ef5c@mail.gmail.com> <406d2d610607192221y622269d6s4ef8e539d59788ae@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <43e95380607201208v6cdeb4eag82266f3f4447b052@mail.gmail.com> The NY ruby group, has meetings twice a month. Once for hacking and the other for coding. Since the meetings can get quite long when we have hacking afterwards, I think I would like this better myself. (I have to leave by about 8:40 to get home by midnight!) We could work on the presenters exercises two weeks after the meeting or work on some other project (err Chrib website) ... what do you think? Of course, when we have special speakers who have exercises then this wouldn't work quite so well, unless one of the other members knew the process and answers and could lead it. just an idea :) On 7/20/06, Michael H Buselli wrote: > > On 7/17/06, Jake Scruggs wrote: > > > > > I think Ryan meant that if you don't respond before 3pm tomorrow (Tues), > > we're doing' it. The actual meeting time will still be the usual 6:30pm on > > Aug 7th. > > does that help? > > > > I was hoping he meant that people could come early and start hacking > together prior to the main presentation. :) > > --Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > -- http://AnythingButPHP.blogspot.com http://CodeSnipers.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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