[Vanhackspace] July 9: Intro to Relational Databases at VHS

[gregor jahn]

damn, i missed it!
gregor

2009/7/8 Julian Rendell <juliangrendell at gmail.com>:
> Excellent! Hope to be there tomorrow!
> Julian
>
> Sent from my Nokia phone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Closs
> Sent:  07-08-2009 12:50:47 AM
> Subject:  Re: [Vanhackspace] July 9: Intro to Relational Databases at VHS
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Julian Rendell<juliangrendell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jeff-
>> this Thursday's talk sounds like a great topic!
>> However I was hoping to met a friend there so we could both find out a
>> little more about VHS and the space, and also to hack on a new hobby project
>> we're working on (http://code.google.com/p/sustainable-food-search/ -
>> starting with Seafood, using Freebase.)  Yes there's very little there,
>> hence we're looking for a somewhere we can sit down, have network access,
>> and hack-away.  We'd love to include others, though at the moment we're
>> still trying to work out the basics.
>> Although neither of us are members, we'd rather come on an open night and
>> donate $5 each and support VHS than spend it at a local cafe.
>
> I can't speak for all of the VHS, but from my perspective: Awesome!
>
>> So a couple of questions:
>> 1. is this in line with VHS vision?
>
> In my mind, yes.  I think we basically want projects that are done
> "openly".  This has several properties to me:
> * Socially open - sharing what your project is about, being social at the space
> * Creatively open - we share our projects and ideas, so please leave
> your @work_secrets at home
> * Open licensing - work and ideas created at the VHS should be
> released under an OSI approved license.
>
>> 2. could we physically do this in the VHS space?  i.e. is there somewhere we
>> can quietly chat and not be disturbing the presentation/other hackers?
>
>
> Usually people arrive before 7pm and then shortly after we start with
> an agenda and then jump into the tutorial or presentation.  Usually
> this is about an hour of group time, and then we usually descend into
> various projects.  Having said that, members are known to work on
> projects unrelated to the presentation.
>
> You'll have to come down and check out the space - pop into IRC to see
> if people are around.  But it's very possible you could pull up some
> chairs into the stairway plateau area even, or by the window to work
> on your project.
>
> But in short, we really want to make the best use of this space.  To
> people in your situation, I think I can summarize as:
>
>  Please come and bring your awesome projects and energy.
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
> P.S. - We really could use a VHS Guestbook to help track trends.  If
> anyone wants to buy one or even better make one for VHS we would
> appreciate the gift.
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