- @gorthx glad to hear you survived! 😀 can’t wait for the recap. #
- Article I wrote about offline community building for @osbr http://tr.im/n2Ps #
- checking out #ip6 lineup. looking forward to sauna ettiquette 😀 http://proposals.igniteportland.com/proposals/319 #
- @pdxpipeline i use the IM interface, and have identi.ca [http://identi.ca] post to twitter. #
- played some @wuchess this weekend, only against robots though. the victories seemed hollow. #
- @markwkm @gowstuff you’re right. in your face, @wuchess ‘bots! #
Offline community, PUGs updates
Just before heading off to PgCon, I wrote about offline community and how it has positively impacted the tech community in Portland, OR. Specifically, I talked about the factors I thought encouraged women to participate.
My own experience with Postgres has been incredibly positive and welcoming. I always wish that I had more time to contribute.
I did find a little time this weekend to upgrade the PostgreSQL User Group site to the latest supported version of Drupal. We’re still on version 5.x, and hopefully I’ll be able to upgrade that to version 6.x soon. We’ve had a few problems with spammers, but I added a CAPTCHA that I hope isn’t too annoying for everyone.
If you have ideas for how to display the information on the PUGs site in a better way, please get in touch. I have a couple things I’d like to add soon – like a map of locations, and a better preview of recently posted articles.
twittering on 2009-05-31
twittering on 2009-05-30
- headed out by bike to @strangelovelive HQ #
- For those home tonight, you can watch me and @spinnerin through a live stream of the show: http://www.livestream.com/strangelovelive #
- @KathySierra @thesethings maybe ‘hackjam’? been calling them hackfest/codesprint for lack of better terms. @invalidname agreed on gazing. #
- We need the lifecycle though: inspiration/tweet -> *camp -> git init -> *jam -> ? #
- Insipriation to project: http://tr.im/mUe4 Tell me what you think! #
- @dabramowski yeah. thanks 😉 #
Inspiration to project
Kathy Sierra tweeted today about the transition from talking to doing in tech culture. We have Camps, but getting from the inspired conversation to actually producing something useful isn’t always easy. Kathy used the term ‘jam’ to describe what it is when people get together to create something, rather than just talk about it. Here in Portland we use the term ‘hackfest’ or ‘codesprint’. Both of those terms imply working with code that’s already out there. Jam seems like a better term when you’re making and playing from scratch.
I thought this could maybe be the start of our lifecycle:
inspiration/tweet -> *camp -> git init -> *jam -> project
I threw the revision control in there as a placeholder for grabbing a namespace and distributing code.
How do you think community-developed software gets created? How would you describe the process your own projects go through?
twittering on 2009-05-29
- RT @joshwaihi: @webchick @slicehost has PostgreSQL support FTW! #
- @dietrich maybe I’ll see you there! #
- @dietrich well, it was @adamd spreading the rumor that YOU knew the juggler people! #
- Book a room for @osbridge now, get the early bird rate, do your victory dance http://bit.ly/3neHaW #
- headed out 🙂 RT @BikePortland: – At carfree Last Thursday on Alberta. It’s awesome out here. Come out and join the fun! #
- @spinnerin mojitos are like the theme of the day 😀 #
- back from alberta. carfree Last Thursday FTW! had a nice stroll with @mildwail. perfect evening! #
- @aurynn alberta *street* heh. #
- good luck with the marathon this weekend, @gorthx! You’re going to kick ass! #
- looking forward to @strangelovelive with @spinnerin this evening. hoping for mojitos. #
- @betsywhim @camikaos lmgtfy: http://www.mywhimislaw.com/?p=1388 #
- @betsywhim it came up as #1 in my search! 🙂 just because #betsywhimisawesome #
- To the relief of all my relatives, I just disconnected twitter from facebook. #
- @cwebber @garethgreenaway i’ll just have to continue to confuse them the old-fashioned way: by talking with them. #
- @sumwan indeed 🙂 #
twittering on 2009-05-28
- @adamd adorable! 🙂 #
- Thought I was caught up. Then reality struck. Going to bed early to tackle this with a fresh brain in the morning. #
- @ajeskey try postgres! 🙂 need help? just ask. #
- @eMarv don’t forget about PITR http://bit.ly/Gd9sQ #
- @lawduck that would be awesome! we’d be happy to host Makers in the hacker lounge #
- looking forward to a dispatch from @osbridge speaker Dave Rauchwerk from the Maker Faire! http://opensourcebridge.org/users/97 #
- @thesethings yes, but not all i/o perf tests are the same. need cache details, random write, and mixed read/write perf + cpu & RAID spec #
- @thesethings for app-relevant I/O: fio or bonnie++, 30 min runtime to establish baselines for seq read/write, random read/write & rw mix #
- @thesethings great preso recently about this from #pgcon: http://www.pgcon.org/2009/schedule/events/152.en.html #
- @cwensel not specifically scheduled yet. but we’ll keep everyone posted. #
twittering on 2009-05-27
twittering on 2009-05-26
- RT @terrycojones: Slides from FluidDB talk at PGCon http://ff.im/3gJb8 #
- Delighted to be caught up on backlog, uploading slides for pgcon and reading presentation feedback. #
- >@terrycojones wish we could have chatted more. Loved your ideas, wish you were coming to @osbridge for more database/wiki goodness. #
twittering on 2009-05-24
- “You can see further from a hilltop?” #pgcon #showhorse
http://bit.ly/xC9vI # - @pgsnake hint: reload 😉 #
- Experiencing Tim Hortons #pgcon http://flickr.com/photos/selenamarie/3559955284 #
- Waiting in the Montreal airport, considering best use of laptop battery power for some #pgcon inspired hacking. #