[Chicago] Fw: Idea: weekly Chicago coding sprints?

[Jason R Huggins]

Ted Pollari wrote:
> Panera Bread (far superior to Starbucks IMHO) has free wifi and good 
> food
> There's one located at 525 S. State street (state and congress) and 
> it opens at 6:00 am)

Hmm... I don't know... I'm not against it, but it sounds a little too far 
South to make it easy to get to...

Another place that has free Wifi is the Allegro hotel (Randolph and 
LaSalle)... ('twas also my suggestion for hosting PyCon '08)...
http://www.allegrochicago.com/alleg_nei_map.html

I'll check Allegro out next week and see if they'd be cool about it... I 
need to talk to them about hosting PyCon, anyway.

John Melesky wrote:
> > The Starbucks at LaSalle and Lake opens at 5:30am. Is that a 
> > reasonable
> > place for the first meeting?

I think the location is good... but... a bunch of hipsters with laptops at 
a Starbucks sounds so... typical... I'm looking for something a little 
more post-modern. :-) (Just kidding.) A Starbucks might be fine... but a 
place with free Wifi would be ideal.)

Another place that crossed my mind is the DePaul student center... the 
home of last December's famous Snakes and Rubies event. Man that place was 
cool. Perhaps, we could get the DePaul Linux group to sponsor again?

Anyway, I guess it comes down to 2 general places... somewhere in the Loop 
(where many techies work), or somewhere in Lincoln Park (where many 
techies live)... 

Too bad the place where TECHcocktail is taking place doesn't open until at 
10:30 a.m... Hmm... on that note perhaps, I should join efforts and call 
this thing "TECHcoffee"? ;-) 

- Jason