[Kongoni-devel] Kongoni Newsletter: 20090912

[A.J. Venter]

Yikes,
It was brought to my attention that there are a few other important
Cape Town Events on that date, so let us rather reschedule it for
Saturday October 3rd then.

That way, everyone has plenty of warning and planning time :)

Ciao
A.J.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM, A.J. Venter <aj at outkastsolutions.co.za> wrote:
>> Our next major task will be to hack virtually all the ports in the
>> tree to make them FHS compliant on both platforms which will resolve
>> this issue. We are planning a hackfest sometime in the next two weeks
>> to sit and simply work through them all – one-by-one, and fix them.
>> This will be a face-to-face session with the developers in Cape Town
>> and surrounds. If there is enough outside interest, we’ll extend it
>> over IRC, if you are interested in joining in – please mail me
>> directly and we’ll get a discussion going on location and
>> methodologies to use. The work is quite easy (really easy in fact)
>> there is just a lot of it.
>>
>
> Well, then - I promised a hackfest, and a hackfest we shall have. Next
> weekend is SFD so that one won't be practical, hence I arranged it for
> the Saturday after that, the idea being
> to combine and online and offline party so anybody who wants to, can join in.
> I created a facebook event for it here:
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143939057368&index=1
>
> But the details below are available for those who don't like facebook.
> If you are in the latter group, please RSVP to me directly so I have a
> rough idea how many people to expect.
>
> Kongoni ports hackfest
> Hackfest to fix ports for the FHS compliance structure
> Saturday, September 25, 2009
> Time:
> 11:00am - 11:00pm
> Location:
> AJ's house
> Street:
> 7B Beavallon Village, 13 Sandown Road, West Beach
> City/Town:
> Cape Town, South Africa
>
> Phone:
> 27834559978
> Email:
> aj at outkastsolutions.co.za
> Description
> Okay, "LAN party" is pushing it but it's the closest facebook has. The
> idea is to get as many kongoni devs together, either online or in
> person (however you can attend) to do the task of making the
> kongoni_current ports tree compliant with the new FHS based slackware
> structures.
> The code changes itself is fairly minor - there is just a lot of them,
> so even beginner programmers could join in.
> As the head dev, I will guide everyone on what needs to be done - and
> where to not do it :)
>
> (I've set it here as an all-day event, but we'll go until we're done)
> Let's make a party out of it, those coming in person bring something
> to braai and something to drink.
> --
> A.J. Venter
> Founder and lead developer, Kongoni GNU/Linux
> www.kongoni.co.za
> www.silentcoder.co.za - Blog
>



-- 
A.J. Venter
Founder and lead developer, Kongoni GNU/Linux
www.kongoni.co.za
www.silentcoder.co.za - Blog