Re: A New Focus for AKLUG

This is just my opinion.

If you really want a hacker session then start one. Don't bother asking
people what they want. Just pick a day, time and place. The rest can
happen later. I don't recommend doing it at the Friday night lab. Pick a
different day.

If you start it they will come.

Don't expect volunteers to jump in. I think most people are either busy
or don't want to volunteer so be prepared to do most of the work your
self. At least in the beginning.

Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
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> <snip>
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>> One of the areas that my education is lacking and AKLUG has not been
>> helpful, is in the area of software development. I have made a couple of
>> abortive attempts to participate in the development or maintenance of
>> Debian packages, and I started a project on sourceforge which quickly
>> bogged down as my day to day focus was forced to concentrate on draining
>> the swamp despite the presence of alligators, water moccasins, and other
>> entangling flora and fauna.
>>
>> So, I would like to know what projects others may be supporting and at
>> what level. Is there anyone else out there who has a software project
>> that is stillborn? I remember the young fellow developing software for
>> Amateur Radio use of WiFi hardware. I remember trying to download
>> something, but then the alligators took my attention. Can we consider
>> this sort of effort one of the activities supported by AKLUG?
>>
>> This inquiring mind wants to know. =:)}}}
>>
>
> I have to point out that there's several of us who specifically talked about
> AKLUG providing a track for exactly this, turning those members who are
> willing into hackers. The gist of what I got out of that whole flamefest is
> that "AKLUG is primarily a group of users who just want to run applications,
> so you hacker types should go away". <pop!> I think a fuse just blew.
>
> George: there's many of us whole sling code on a daily basis. Many of our
> projects will be of no interest to you, and that's after you've narrowed
> down the choices to languages you're willing to learn, but I can't think of
> any of us who wouldn't welcome some participation.
>
> If AKLUG in general has any interest in becoming less hostile to the hacking
> element I'd be happy to share what little I know. Even the small things
> have a lot of value outside of programming, like gnu make. I use that not
> only for my projects (my entire distribution can be built from scratch
> from a handful of make commands) but for other things like generating PDFs
> from tetex files, etc.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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Received on Thu Sep 27 16:04:51 2007