[Chicago-talk] Fwd: Dear Chicagoland Computing Groups - (From your friendly Chicago Java Users Group)

Joel Berger joel.a.berger at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 19:48:44 PST 2013


If such an event occurs Perl should be a part of it!

Cheers,

Joel Berger

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From: Freddy Guime <freddy.guime at cjug.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Subject: Dear Chicagoland Computing Groups - (From your friendly Chicago
Java Users Group)
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I come in peace J (had to say that),****

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Actually I come with the idea of organizing a Chicagowide hack-a-thon, and
make it a large event (say three days). I think is time we make Chicago a
great place to be a developer (it already is, but wanted to start doing
events only for developers). Individually our groups are a little small
(ok, fine, the Java group is, ACM probably have membership in the hundreds
of thousands J), but if we put our resources together, we could start doing
fun and inspiring things (like having speakers coming to give a talk before
the hack-a-thon begins), plus we could really try and leverage companies in
Chicago to help in our hack-a-thon efforts. In all we can show everyone how
great of a place Chicago is to be a geek. Forget California!, -40f winters
and deep dish is what makes developers develop great things!!****

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This of course is right now on the ‘imagine’ stage, and my first question
is:****

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If your group is interested, can someone on your group volunteer to make
this happen?****

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https://docs.google.com/a/cjug.org/document/d/1g41ZwgVbC8pGB9a3sWxQWjEcWU3lN_PJQn5BPbzGdio/edit#
(description of the event)****

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If we have enough volunteers then we will have a working group and can
really start planning this in earnest.****

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Also, I tried to reach as many groups as Dr Greenberg managed to put on his
spreadsheet, but is by no means all of them. Can you be so kind if you know
I missed any group to forward this on?****

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Thanks!****

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So long, and thanks for all the Fish!****

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Freddy Guime****

CJUG Board Member****

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