Re: Who's up for Hack Night(s)?

Sounds great!  I'm game for some hacking and I finally got the laptop
with which to do it. I live in Durham so my preference for location
leans that way.

Josh

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Fred Medlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great idea. I'm up for that. I always have a lot on the to-hack list and
> that'd be a great time to get some of it done.
> I'm partial to the Crossroads area since I'm in Apex. I've done day work at
> Panera and that's pretty decent. If there's only a few of us to start, then
> we probably don't need a whole lot of space initially.
>
> I really like the space at Borders, but until they clean up the T-Mobile
> mess that's not a good option.
>
> I'll ask around about what's open late. Some of the nice coffee shops close
> too early.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Phillip Rhodes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > So we've been talking lately about doing things to foster
> > more of sense of community amongst us Tri-JUG'ers... and we
> > have done some stuff... the IRC channel, having a couple of
> > "Tri-JUG lunches" etc.  But one thing we haven't (to the
> > best of my knowledge) done is something that the Ruby guys
> > seem to have a lot of fun with... hack nights!
> >
> > So what is "hack night?" Well, it's pretty much exactly what it sound
> > like... a bunch of us get laptops, head to a pub or restaurant or
> > somewhere that has some combination of free wifi, beer, coffee, food
> > (ideally all of the above!) and spend some indeterminate period of thing
> > hacking code, playing with new stuff, arguing over the merits of the
> > various "closures for java 7" proposals, share ideas, debate the merits
> > of Java vs. Ruby, Dylan, Lisp, Prolog, Python, Perl, PHP, Fortran, etc.
> > and just generally have a geeky fun time.
> >
> > So, who's in, at least tentatively? And any suggestions for
> > a location and time?  I'll throw out the High Park Pub
> > over on East Whitaker Mill Rd as an option.  They do have
> > food, beer, coffee (no special coffee drinks, just plain coffee, but
> > hey, it's got caffeine) and free wifi; and it's not usually too crowded
> > on weeknights unless there's a game on that's of special significance
> > locally.  The downside is that power outlets can be hard to come by
> > and they do allow smoking.  Better suggestions welcomed...
> >
> >
> > TTYL,
> >
> > --
> > Phillip Rhodes
> > Chief Architect - OpenQabal
> > https://openqabal.dev.java.net
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> >
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