[GRLUG] Saturday Social Summary

[Steve Romanow]

On 3/29/2010 2:30 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> I was there 2-6PM, Matt Seely and a friend of his (I can't remember
> your name--sorry!) were there fairly early. Matt showed the Ubuntu
> 10.04 beta, and we chatted about about programming languages, CMS and
> hardware. (ATW really ought to have been there; Matt's on the brink of
> diving either into Python or Ruby.)  Matt's friend has to be the
> computer geek equivalent of the star of one of those "flip this house"
> reality TV shows; I imagine him going through hardware upgrades like
> World 1-3 of SMB--constantly jumping higher and higher.
>
> Pyeps came by a bit into it. Apparently he'd gotten misdirected by my
> bad link last week, and initially went to the wrong Subway. We chatted
> a bit about the SCO trial revival, the details of copyright, software
> licenses and license compatibility, and he showed me some neat stuff
> he'd been working on that uses cookies to store program code. (Before
> you jump all over the security implications of that, consider that
> it's not code being trusted by a server.)  We chatted a bit about
> Bounjour/Avahi/MDNS, machine languages and programming languages and
> code bloat and where it comes from.
>
> There was another guy there, whose name I also can't remember (I
> really should have written this on Saturday, but I had some urgent
> things crop up at home.), who uses Mandriva, Fedora and Win7.
>
> Interesting times, interesting discussions. Hope to see more of you
> this week. :)
>
>    
I'm getting my house, yard, and car in order so as soon as the weather 
breaks, this meetup will likely be my afternoon ride for exercise.  Hope 
i'll still be presentable coming from Kentwood.  Anyone else bike?