Philip Durbin (Feb 27 2024 at 03:12): Philip Durbin (Feb 27 2024 at 03:12):When should we meet in March?
Pete (Mar 05 2024 at 00:29):Maybe 3/24 (if we're keeping with roughly monthly)?
Philip Durbin (Mar 06 2024 at 04:13):Sure! Works for me.
Philip Durbin (Mar 10 2024 at 16:35):I just updated https://bostonopen.dev with that date, Sunday the 24th.
Philip Durbin (Mar 17 2024 at 21:26):Hamilton on St Patrick's Day
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Dan (Mar 17 2024 at 21:28):Not a huge crowd visible here
Dan (Mar 17 2024 at 23:55):I posted on Mastodon. A couple reposts so far.
Dan (Mar 17 2024 at 23:56):Also on Saturday I'm going to something called Coffee and Code in Boston. I think there will be an announcement segment. If there is I'll mention this meeting, maybe we can snag a couple of those.
Philip Durbin (Mar 18 2024 at 12:11):Nice. They did have an announcement segment some months ago and I mentioned our lil' meetup.
Dan (Mar 18 2024 at 13:12):Oh okay. Do you go often.
Dan (Mar 18 2024 at 13:12):?
Philip Durbin (Mar 18 2024 at 16:50):Hmm. I think I went the one time. It was summer. I went kayaking afterwards (the put in is nearby).
Philip Durbin (Mar 22 2024 at 01:01):I just sent the SMS reminders before it gets too late. On to email reminders now.
Philip Durbin (Mar 22 2024 at 01:26):Phew. Done.
Dan (Mar 23 2024 at 17:43):4 or 5 people at Coffee and Code have come up to ask me about the meetup! Mostly student types interested in learning.
Dan (Mar 23 2024 at 17:43):One guy José plans to show, most others want to come in the future.
Dan (Mar 23 2024 at 17:43):Most can't make it tomorrow
Dan (Mar 23 2024 at 17:49):Maybe it would be worth putting on the website that newcomers are welcome. A lot of people seem worried that they'd be out of place.
Dan (Mar 23 2024 at 19:17):Closer to 7 people now, wow. Hopefully we don't get overwhelmed.
Dan (Mar 23 2024 at 19:17):Also a guy who wants to help on my project. A guy who is generally interested in contributing to open source.
Dan (Mar 23 2024 at 19:18):Same guy actually had seen our website before. He may come tomorrow.
Philip Durbin (Mar 23 2024 at 21:11):Oh! Yes! We should definitely make sure we communicate that newcomers are welcome. Do you want to make a pull request? Or just fix it?
Dan (Mar 24 2024 at 19:59):I'll see if I can do it.
Dan (Mar 24 2024 at 20:10):Oh I wasn't precise. By newcomers I meant people who are new to FOSS and want to learn more.
Dan (Mar 24 2024 at 20:35):Okay lmk
Philip Durbin (Mar 24 2024 at 21:01):Thanks for https://github.com/bostonopen/bostonopen.github.io/pull/11 !
Philip Durbin (Mar 24 2024 at 21:01):Merged!
Philip Durbin (Mar 25 2024 at 11:43):Great seeing everyone! 7 people came. I updated the website and started a thread for next month's meetup: #boston > 2024-04 meetup
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