[Dev-sig] Looks like another lonely day...

[juanslayton at dslextreme.com]

Tom Emerson
> here at the library (you did remember today is the first devsig meeting of
> the year, right?)
>
> As a way of providing focus for the group, and perhaps get a boost in
> attendance, I'm thinking we should consider some sort of "project" to work
> on primarily at the meetings, but with some "spare time" tinkering as
> well.  I had hoped a few people would show up so we could discuss project
> ideas.
>
>  The first and most obvious idea that comes to mind is something we had at
> another user group -- an application to track attendance at meetings.
> (this was for the OS/2 user group, and the application was written in
> rexx)  Since that group had a more formal definition of membership (i.e.,
> you paid dues...) the program was able to draw on a database of known
> members and was tailored to their needs.  I want to create something a
> little more generic using a more "portable" language -- the idea being
> that once completed, we could offer it to the "community" (of other user
> groups).
>
> Of course, this is only a suggestion -- I've actually created a couple of
> versions in the past (though none of them really quite worked the way I
> had hoped) so if nobody else wants to work on this, it's no big deal --
> I'll just continue to work on that idea on my own.
>
> Regardless of what we decide as a group, I'd like to spend time at the
> meetings in a "design" mode, then during the month have folks work on the
> actual implementation (perhaps via a shared repository...)  later meetings
> would be for review and debugging.

Tom
Sorry we missed today.  We got detoured in Northern California by the
storm and didn't get home until about 3:00 this afternoon.

Getting a group project seems to me an obvious need.  But then I probably
share your 'vision' of what would make for interesting meetings.

John