Delayed for another week…

{ November 5th, 2008 }

I had these great intentions to write up info about the next two ad-hoc gatherings…. but I got wrapped up in election coverage and that didn’t happen.

Here’s the plan - we’ll look to gather at the 1702 pub on Wednesday, November 12th around 7 PM.

Then - the following week, we’ll come together for lunch at East Coast Super Sub on Wednesday, November 19th around noon.

Next “get-together”:
Wednesday, November 12 @ 7 PM
Location:
1702 (the address is the name, west end of the Nob Hill Mall)
1702 E. Speedway Blvd
Directions: http://1702az.com/directions.html
Parking: east end of the mall, between the 7-Eleven and Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea.
Online: http://1702az.com/

Next “lunch” (Kit Plummer - this is for you, Mr. “I Like Trashing Spring on the TJUG Mailing List”)
Wednesday, November 19 *around* noon
Location:
East Coast Super Subs
187 N. Park Ave.
Parking: on-site lot & The Rock (across the street)
Online: http://www.mcnesbyseastcoastsupersubs.com/

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Java Users Group - Git-Together

{ August 12th, 2008 }

Myself, Tom Michaud, and William Mitchell are hosting a “Git-Together” to expose the group to the Git distributed version control system. I thought I’d let you all know.

Location: 4th floor of 5151 E. Broadway Blvd, Video Monitoring Systems (VMS) [http://tucson-jug.org/display/TJUG/Meetings]
Time: 7pm - meetings general run into 8:30 pm [http://tucson-jug.org/display/TJUG/Home]
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The JUG meeting August 12 will be a Git-together. In short, what we have in mind is a jam session to explore Git. What is Git? It’s what you should be using instead of CVS or SVN (according to Linus Torvalds). We’ll start with a code base that is simple and then cut loose individuals and groups to make changes of various sorts, and use Git to incorporate (or not) the work of others.

We’ll have several laptops available, and you’re welcome to bring yours, too. You can join in the fun, or just watch the action, or do little of both.

The instigators of this event are Andrew Lenards, Tom Michaud, and William Mitchell. None have much experience with Git but hopefully by the time we’re done everybody will have little better idea of what Git is all about.

If you want to learn a little more about Git before we Git-together, here are some places to start:

Linus Torvalds’ Tech Talk on Git: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Randal Schwartz’s Tech Talk on Git: http://tinyurl.com/5eoysz

about-git: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
project-url: http://git.or.cz/
for-more-info: http://del.icio.us/lenards/VersionControl
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