Hello John and everyone else I may or may not know.
John mentioned recieving 5 backloged messages. I wrote the original message on sunday the 10th at 3:42pm. When did everyone recieve it?
I've been having mail trouble recently on my end, so I can't be very objective about this.
Ok, now I have some issues, like: Tech coffie is to early to get up I'm in the northwest suburbs (is anyone else in the suburbs, or is *everyone* in the city?)
Same. Well, technically I'm in the city but I can walk across the street to Elmwood Park / Franklin Park.
I propose that we set up a IRC channel, (probably #chicago-lisp on freenet), and have IRC meetings at the same time as the code sprints. The idea would be to log in from the code sprint if you can make it, or just log in from home if your lazy.
+1. Sometimes I just have fairly simple questions that stump me for an hour and there's also the problem of being flamed/ignored on #lisp. :-)
Also, I like the idea of makeing the code sprints the focal point for the lisp get togethers (especially since I can rarely make saturdays). I'd propose that we make the code sprint/irc meetings the "get together time", and just do the LUG when we have a actual presentation?
Hopefully there can be a similar psychology effect as TechCoffee: people pushed and prodded to go finish their projects are more likely to get things done than a biweekly general meet-up (not that there is anything wrong with the LUG meetings; just doesn't seem to share the same goals). Additionally, probably a lot of what we can learn from our peers is through time spent hacking together on problems. That is to say, a lot of epiphany "ah-ha!" moments probably can't be translated to a 15 minute presentation.
Cheers! - Norbert
PS. Is there a meeting tomorrow night and, if so, is it at the same cafe as listed earlier?