[chiglug] Plans for January / February meetings and projects

[meg ford]

Hi,

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Happy Holidays / almost ready to say Happy New Year!  : )  I hope
> everyone is having a good run of holidays this year, and that you're all
> doing well.
>
> I wanted to see if folks had topics that they'd like to hear about or
> would like to discuss for a meeting in January or early February.
> Perhaps there are topics that you'd like to hear about or ones that
> you'd like to discuss. If so, let us know, and we'll see about
> organizing a meeting around those topics.
>
> Also, if we find getting speakers difficult, Meg and I were thinking
> that hackfest-type projects would work well for us at this time of year.
>  Perhaps creating / modifying Ansible projects for user-focused
> open-source projects would be an interesting and appropriate effort for
> this group - Something that would help users set up their own OwnCloud,
> Tor or VPN (or other . . . ) instances. Based on our groups' membership,
> this seems to be a good effort for the group (we have people with solid
> GNU/Linux skills, and people who are end-user and free-software focused
> . . . ). This would be an effort / work-based project, and would require
> some time / effort investment, but I think it could be a valuable effort
> and would be a good way to apply our skills.
>
> If you like this idea, let us know, but if there are other hackfest-type
> projects that you have been kicking around in your head, feel free to
> share them, too.


I'd like to meet up but have some GNOME code I'd like to work on. Have the
Programming Tonight meetups been successful?  Would it be ok to try another
one of those?

Cheers, and Happy New Year,
Meg

>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
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