We have the Santa Rita meeting room at the Main Library next Wed Apr 28th 2010, from 6PM – 7:45PM.
We have the Santa Rita meeting room at the Main Library next Wed Apr 28th 2010, from 6PM – 7:45PM.
that’s about the summary as I recall it – Francis took some photos and posted notes to
http://aztcs.org/meeting_notes/2010-03-31/2010-03-31.htm
Thanks all – and feel free to post links and details here. See you next month!
At the last meeting, there was interesting discussion about the benefits of SDD drives (speed!). For Mac users, I just came across this article, thought I ‘d share:
http://www.macworld.com/article/145572/2010/01/ssd_macbook_pro.html
nothing earth shattering, just mildly interesting
-dave
Our next meetings are scheduled for
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We’ll have short presentations on using Mashup APIs and/or Google code toolkit, then take turns with the mike to show our stuff to each other.
All are welcome, there is no charge to attend. Many of our members also belong to the Tucson Computer Society and Francis usually posts information about them to the TCS website, but you don’t have to be a member of anything to come.
(Prefer assembling components to inheritance when possible – a good design patterns rule)
Several people showed up, introduced themselves and talked about their interests and projects.
So, a decent start!
Kick-off Unmeeting : Wed. Jan 27 6:30-8 PM
@ Himmel Library Meeting Room
See printable flyer
Bring your ideas and projects in progress!
Agenda:
– Brief introductions and some info on collaboration tools
– Working time while we help each other with ideas and projects. Jumpstart, brainstorm, troubleshoot, check out and give feedback.
The Co-op is non-denominational: Perl, Java, PHP, Javascript, CSS/HTML, tool users and others all welcome.
For more information see http://tucson.devcoop.org or contact Golda at gvelez17@gmail.com * 440-1420. Affiliated with the Tucson Computer Society Developers’ SIG : http://aztcs.org/sigs/.
Some possible business uses of the coop:
o Marketing, funding, contract work
o Should we have a section of the site for teams to form and bid on contracts?
o Feel free to post resumes, websites and sample work here
o Possibility of forming a group on Guru.com or Elance.com
o Possibility of going after work from NY /SF areas where wages are higher than Tucson
o What are members’ VC experiences? We can also review each other business plans as well as code.
o Revenue models: clients, ad-supported, broad vs narrow user base, vertical markets, simplicity vs barrier to entry for competitors
Tucson Superblog: http://btucson.com
Ideas for Everyday Teaching and Learning : http://bteaching.com
Comments anywhere – Just became obsolete with Google Sidewiki: http://abra.info
Just a quick list of tools we may want to use for collaboration:
o Google docs
o Wikis – Drupal can act as a wiki, or we can install Twiki
(need to install the wikitools module)
o GitHub, SourceForge.net , code.Google.com
o Local version control : svn, git
(should we set up a local repository?)
o Bug/issue tracker: bugzilla, eventum, others
o Project planning : Mingle, OpenProject, others
o Chat! Should we have chat hours where we’d try and be available for collaboration in addition to in person meetings?