Tucson Startup Drinks

Thanks for a Great Night!

tucson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:04:25 +0000

A productive night! I want to thank everyone for showing up at Charlie’s tonight. You’ve got love UI designs on napkins!

August’s Startup Drinks - Aug. 27th

tucson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:53:59 +0000

We’ll be at the new location again (Charlie’s). I’ll see everyone at 7 PM, August 27th. We’ve got a private room. When you enter, make two immediate rights and you’ll be in the private room.

Charlie’s Tavern & Grill
3412 N Dodge Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716

See you there!

SD - Lunch Edition

tucson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:45:42 +0000

There has been a number of requests to do something in the way of a “lunch edition” for Startup Drinks. For a number of people, evenings are not the best time. So, in the vein of trying new things, we’re going to gathering at Sinbad’s around noon on Thursday, August 21st.

Sinbad’s

sinbadstucson.com
810 E University Blvd, Tucson -

(520) 623-4010

Parking Information

Java Users Group - Git-Together

tucson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:40:53 +0000

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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See Everyone Tomorrow

tucson — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:58:09 +0000

As mentioned in the last post - we’ve got a new location to try out. I’ll see everyone at 7 PM tomorrow, July, 30th. We’ve got a private room at Charlie’s Tavern & Grill tomorrow. When you enter, make two immediate rights and you’ll be in the private room.

Charlie’s Tavern & Grill
3412 N Dodge Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716

See you there!

Location Change - July, 30 - Charlie’s Tavern & Grill

tucson — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:53:33 +0000

Tomorrow is July’s Startup Drinks and we’ll be moving to Charlie’s Tavern & Grill. I think all that showed up last time will agree that Old Chicago wasn’t the best location for talking and such. I went to the TFUG Happy Hour at Charlie’s a couple of weeks back and I thought it was a stellar location.

Charlie’s Tavern & Grill
3412 N Dodge Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716

Get Directions

(520) 795-8646

http://www.charliestavernandgrill.com/

See Everyone Tonight

tucson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:53:27 +0000

Old Chicago

2960 N Campbell Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719

Around 7 pm

Your Regularly Scheduled Tucson Startup Drinks…

tucson — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:49:35 +0000

JMatt & I were talking about setting a day of the month to plan on getting together. It looks like the last Wednesday of the month would be the best. So the next two will be June 25th and July 30th - both at Old Chicago. Look to show up around 7 PM. If you weren’t one of the folk that was at the last gathering, just look for me (Andy):

This is the first time I’ve done any sort of thing like this. The overall concept seemed informal, so it didn’t take much convincing from JMatt. He has way more experience with this sort of thing. Anyway - thanks to the urging of Warner Onstine (founder, president, leader, organizer - for the Tucson Java User Group - I don’t know which he’s currently doing, but he’s been all of them) and JMatt, I went ahead and setup a Google Group for Tucson Startup Drinks. It’ll be a nice way to bug the two of us if for some reason the meetings aren’t getting scheduled or we’re behaving in some other lax, lazy manner. The group is public and anyone can join (below is a link to the group page).

Tucson Startup Drinks

Visit this group

Speaking of informal gatherings, I’m way beyond my self-set deadline for getting out the alpha of Gigism. So, I’m looking to do some coding at Epic Cafe on Tuesday nights from (around) 6:30 to 9:30. If anyone just wants to stop by and chat or code or you want to show off something (which is encouraged any time) — I’ll be there (again, look for the guy pictured above - though I’ve shaved my beard). I’ve dubbed it Coffee & Code in the groups discussion (which I know is cheeky and lame).

I should get back on the topic…

I’m also looking for local groups to contact and let them know about us. I’ve pestered the members of Tucson JUG a fair bit. I was going to contact people from Tucson Free UNIX Group (TFUG). I know they have a “happy hour” the 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month. Also, I don’t know anyone active in - but I know there is an active Tucson .NET User Group. Being that I still dabble in “the evil”* (and JMatt’s hip deep in it) - I’ll try to get in touch with them too. The point of this rambling gibberish is that I was hoping that if anyone reads this and has suggestions of who else we should contact or where to post the dates of gatherings - please comment.

Also… the August gathering would be the 26th - any suggestions on a location? Gentle Ben’s? Oregano’s? Risky Business? Thunder Canyon Brewery?

* disclaimer: I taught C#/.NET classes at University of Arizona for about 5 years. I’m merely joking about Microsoft and .NET being “evil” - I’m not trying to rile anyone up.

First “Meeting” a Success

tucson — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:38:14 +0000

JMatt and I would like to thank everyone for coming out to the Auld Dubliner last Tuesday night. It was our first gathering/meeting/whatever-we-should-call-it, and we had a solid turnout. Thanks!

I’d like to offer a congrats to Grant Hawkes. Grant’s startup HawkeSoft went live with its’ first product, EZ SQL Restore, the day before of our get-together (May 5).

We’re gunning for our next “meeting” to be Wednesday June 4th or June 11th. If you have a preference, just comment and let us know.

The location is still undecided - but Old Chicago and Oregano’s have been tossed out as suggestions. It’s an election year, so voicing your opinion should come easy!

Thanks again - Andy

May 6th - Auld Dubliners - 6:30pm

tucson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:57:09 +0000

Do you have a great idea? Are you looking for programmers or fellow founders? Come geekout, socialize, network and hangout at the first Tucson Startup Drinks event.

Join us at 6:30pm at Auld Dubliners.

See the google map for location and parking information!

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