This week was round two for GCM at Huge Inc., the incredibly communally active web design firm in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
This event, named 24 Pull Requests, was a part of a larger event taking place (I think) the world over. The purpose of the 24PR is to promote giving back to the open source community by submitting a pull request as a gift during December every day leading up to Christmas.
As always, Huge came through tremendously in the food department. There was a little bit of stir when the floor above us started leaking water everywhere (The third floor has been under construction since before the last time GCM visited.), but it was quickly taken care of.
There were perhaps 15 developers there to work, about 5 of whom were actually bringing their project in hopes of finding some new people to help build their open source education platform. (Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a name). People worked from about 6pm - 10pm with tacos and beer. All in all, a good night of hacking.
This event has inspired me to make an effort to focus a bit more on the open source community for this blog, so expect to see another group of meetups added to the "Regulars" page above sometime soon.
EDIT - We were able to work for a while with a really cool guy named Michael Kolodny who is working on building a website to help ease the apartment hunting process. I think it has some potential to be a really great service. If you know someone who's going to be moving soon, let them know about Janther.
This event, named 24 Pull Requests, was a part of a larger event taking place (I think) the world over. The purpose of the 24PR is to promote giving back to the open source community by submitting a pull request as a gift during December every day leading up to Christmas.
As always, Huge came through tremendously in the food department. There was a little bit of stir when the floor above us started leaking water everywhere (The third floor has been under construction since before the last time GCM visited.), but it was quickly taken care of.
There were perhaps 15 developers there to work, about 5 of whom were actually bringing their project in hopes of finding some new people to help build their open source education platform. (Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a name). People worked from about 6pm - 10pm with tacos and beer. All in all, a good night of hacking.
This event has inspired me to make an effort to focus a bit more on the open source community for this blog, so expect to see another group of meetups added to the "Regulars" page above sometime soon.
EDIT - We were able to work for a while with a really cool guy named Michael Kolodny who is working on building a website to help ease the apartment hunting process. I think it has some potential to be a really great service. If you know someone who's going to be moving soon, let them know about Janther.
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