Meeting: 2 February in Pasadena

[FourthWorld]

Where:
Burger Continental, back room
535 S. Lake Avenue
Pasadena CA 91101
http://www.burgercontinentalpasadena.com/home.html

When:
Thursday, February 2
7:00PM

What:
The February meeting falls on Groundhog Day, a favorite holiday of mine, so I'd like to propose a theme for some of the discussion at our meeting:

In the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day", his character wakes up to relive the day over and over, eventually learning how to live that day better.

I'd like to take that theme for the meeting: What issues do we find ourselves facing over and over in our LiveCode development, and what might we as a community do to resolve them once and for all?

In our January meeting we kicked off the year with a great conversation about ways to simplify the separation of code and content, and have taken the first steps toward designing a library to help with that.

I'd like to see us take that sort of productive outcome forward as a central theme for February, exploring ways we can pull our code together into simple but useful components to share with the larger LiveCode community.

One of the things I've learned from hanging out with the Ubuntu community is the power of their "can-do" spirit, the willingness to look at any problem and say, "I can help with that". While the LiveCode world isn't as large as the Ubuntu world, it seems plenty large enough to realize many of the same productive outcomes, to harness some of the human energy that goes into solving basic problems and share them in a way that helps us all focus on more interesting tasks.

So if I may suggest, perhaps for the February meeting you can prepare by giving some thought to development tasks in LiveCode that you find tedious or otherwise unenjoyable, the things that eat up disproportionate time, and bring your wish list to the meeting where we can sift through it to explore possible solutions.

Will Groundhog Day predict a long Winter, or herald an early Spring?

I think we have an opportunity as a community to shape that outcome.

Game?

[FourthWorld]

Bump in case anyone missed this thread. Looking forward to seeing you there....

[geekhunter]

Thanks all! I'll be there!

[FourthWorld]

Final bump before tomorrow's meeting just in case anyone missed it....

[chipsm]

I attended the meeting last night because I wanted to see if using RunRev was a viable option for my future programming needs.
I must say that I enjoyed meeting with the folks last night and the insight that they provided. The exchange of thoughts and views was really great and I look forward to the next meeting.
I will be exploring RunRev some more and will have a better set of questions as far as the development process for my future uses.

Thanks for the meeting opportunity.

Clarence

[FourthWorld]

And many thanks to you and Rick for coming to the meeting. Always good to see fresh faces there, and each of you has interesting goals for your work with LiveCode so it'll be great to see how your stuff comes together as you learn more about it.

Looking forward to seeing you again on March 1 at the next meeting, and as I mentioned last night feel free to give me a call if you get stuck on anything you can't find an answer for here in the forums.

[scobeyrtGA3gTs]

And many thanks to you and Rick for coming to the meeting. Always good to see fresh faces there, and each of you has interesting goals for your work with LiveCode so it'll be great to see how your stuff comes together as you learn more about it.

Looking forward to seeing you again on March 1 at the next meeting, and as I mentioned last night feel free to give me a call if you get stuck on anything you can't find an answer for here in the forums.

Richard,

I too enjoyed meeting everyone, and look forward to the next meeting. Thanks for the nice welcome!

See you soon,
Rick

[scobeyr]

I attended the meeting last night because I wanted to see if using RunRev was a viable option for my future programming needs.
I must say that I enjoyed meeting with the folks last night and the insight that they provided. The exchange of thoughts and views was really great and I look forward to the next meeting.
I will be exploring RunRev some more and will have a better set of questions as far as the development process for my future uses.

Thanks for the meeting opportunity.

Clarence

Clarence,

Good to meet you! You gave me some great ideas last week.
How can I get I get in touch with you? I have a few questions about the ISY hardware.

Thanks,
Rick

[chipsm]

Rick,
Sorry for such a late response and reply.
I have not looked at the forum for a while.
The ISY is manufactured by Universal Devices, here in So Cal.
This forum is not allowing me to post URL's
So, email me at chipsmartin on my Gmail account
or call me at 626 6965561

Clarence