[Chicago] Idea: weekly Chicago coding sprints? - Scouting report results

[Martin Maney]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:11:15PM -0500, David Rock wrote:
> One thing that has the potential to be an issue is the availability of
> something to do.  Are we going to have problems if no-one has a project
> they are currently working on?  What do we do then?

Browse c.l.p. - that can absorb any finite amount of time!

Okay, I saw someone else was asking about the Lisle area, so that's
four of us (that I know of - I seem to have missed Ian's find, or was
that off-list?) at least.  I've got a small project I was putzing with
(and haven't touched in about a week now) that I can toss on the table
if we can pick a trial balloon time and place.  Tomorrow morning is
right out, as I have an early appointment.  Anyone else sufficently
without a "normal" life that tomorrow after work sounds good?  Besides,
Fry's might have something on sale that I can't live without then...

-- 
To fix that one, I'd have to travel all the way back to the early eighties
and convince the BSD design team to improve the diagnostics abilities of
the Unix kernel in general, and of select(2) in particular.  And while I
could certainly do that, I'm worried of the consequences - the BSD vs.
System V split might never have happened, Unix would have ruled the world,
we'd all be programming in awk++, and Bill Gates would be an obscure
patent lawyer that no one had heard of.  -- Guido van Rossum