Re: [TCLUG:12422] Meat to chew on for the hackfest

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 11:40:01AM -0600, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:
> 
> Well, Nick and I are getting started as developers. Eric seems very
> knowledgeable, but I don't know if he has any projects cooking. Randy,
> whom I'm CCing, has a lot of experience, a lot of cool projects, and
> very little free time (natch).

	If you're referring to me, I do have a project I'm working on,
but it's in C++, and I haven't gotten lots of time to work on it
recently.  It's web page is http://omnifarious.mn.org/StrMod, and I have
lots of big plans for it.  :-)

> Yeah. I was also thinking lectures or tutorials on specific subjects
> would be cool.  'How to do some cool thing with Gtk+', 'Wheee, Mesa',
> 'Weird arcane GCC bugs'.  Not to burden you, Shawn, but a 'How I got
> GIMP to run on BeOS' talk would be really cool.

	I know someone who'd be very interested in learning anything he
could about Mesa.  He's starting to play around with GL on his new
Athlon system.  :-)

> The thing to do for the space problem, I think, is to rent a hotel
> suite or three for the 24-72 (?) hour period.  We could have a
> sleeping area, a discussion area, and a workstation area (for
> example).  This raises the bar to entry ($$), sadly, but I think it
> would be more amenable to serious work than cramming 5-10 peeps in an
> apartment.  The cost would go down as the number of participants goes
> up.

	If I cleaned, my apartment easily has enough space for 5
people.  :-) It's a 2+ bedroom with a large living room and kitchen
that I have all to myself.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
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