[Rubyforchange-talk] Ok, so THAT is embarrassing

[Evan David Light]

Will there be werewolves?

Sounds good to me.  See you in Philly!

On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Jeff Casimir wrote:

> RubyForChange-ers,
>
> I have to apologize.  I thought I was signed up for the mailing list
> but, apparently, never did it.  I didn't realize there had been any
> discussion whatsoever until I just noticed email archives.
>
> I am going to read through the archives in the next two days and offer
> feedback/commentary as appropriate.
>
> In better news, I am working on the first Ruby for Change event to be
> held in conjunction with Ruby East outside Philadelphia in a week and
> a half.  I sent some emails out to friends and speakers at the event,
> but only managed to lasso a few people.  By the end of the day
> tomorrow I want to have a publicity page posted with some information
> about the event and a signup for interested parties.  Once that is up
> I hope to elicit a little blog-pub from the community and rally a
> small team of workers for a day-long hackfest.
>
> Chariot Solutions, host of Ruby East, is renting a space for the event
> all day Saturday (with power and internet).  I am going to try to dig
> up a pizza/redbull/etc sponsor to fuel the activity.  I am hoping to
> organize 5-20 people to tackle a project that can be functional by the
> end of the day and useful to normal people.
>
> While I'd take suggestions and input, I am kind of in love with the
> idea of a document/file exchange system.  My school uses Microsoft's
> Sharepoint and it is pretty....uhhh....underwhelming.  I'm envisioning
> a system that makes extensive use of searchability, tagging, and
> metadata to organize a "file system."  Kind of how GMail's archive
> helped me let go of my complex folder hierarchies and filter chains in
> Outlook, I want this project to do for documents.  Versioning, privacy
> settings, maybe branching/merging, commenting, preview as html,
> support for lots of file formats (graphics, ms office, openoffice,
> pdf, etc) would all be cool features as programmer power/numbers
> allow.  Does that sound interesting at all?
>
> - Jeff
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