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

[David Mertens]

Joel,

Please keep these coming. As you know, I'm too busy to act on this at the
moment, but if it takes a few months to get this ball rolling, I might be
able to jump in later.

David
On Jan 24, 2013 9:48 PM, "Joel Berger" <joel.a.berger at gmail.com> wrote:

> If such an event occurs Perl should be a part of it!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel Berger
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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)
> To: secretary at chicagoacm.org, chair at chicagoacm.org, rrivera at acm.org,
> jwelch at redshift-software.com, jay at m5.chicago.il.us, kgander at pobox.com,
> cm655 at yahoo.com, jstonkin at speedsite.com, dean at deanwampler.com,
> jonathan.seidman at gmail.com, andrew at cloudbakers.com, richardc at alcf.anl.gov,
> chicagodataviz at gmail.com, board at cjug.org, brian.moschel at gmail.com,
> rth at wisdomgroup.com, mike.atkinson at gmail.com, Tonykv at live.com,
> hillel.meyers at gmail.com, Mail at chicagowomendevs.com, uki at cyberwalkabout.com,
> chipy at chipy.org, info at flourishconf.com, joe.hummel at gmail.com,
> owner-ieee-e-notice at bmsmail3.ieee.org, vivek.vaid at gmail.com,
> ufo-info at tastytronic.net, joel.a.berger at gmail.com, greenberg.ron at gmail.com
> Cc: board at cjug.org
>
>
> I come in peace J (had to say that),****
>
> ** **
>
> 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?****
>
> ** **
>
>
> 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.****
>
> ** **
>
> 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?****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks!****
>
> ** **
>
> So long, and thanks for all the Fish!****
>
> ** **
>
> Freddy Guime****
>
> CJUG Board Member****
>
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