Let there be FAD! Oct 8th - Etherpad FAD at Olin College! (Outside Boston, MA)
New boundaries will be crossed, Andy, Sebastian, and I are holding a FAD at Olin College! It comes from our love of Etherpad, an excellent collaborative web-app that has been open sourced. We can't think of a better subject. Etherpad is great for project, planning, education... the lists goes on!
What is this Etherpad thing? I should probably let you take a peak:
Etherpad is fascinating from a practical perspective, it lets people collaborate instantly and effortlessly. The learning curve is just about 0. From a technical perspective, it uses an absolute disgusting mix of languages, methods (MySQL likes JSON, yes, yes it does), and optimizations. And from an open source perspective, its interesting to see what we can expect from startup software gone open. Hardcore hacker and OSS newbie alike, we have the FAD project for you!
Oct 8th starting 5pm - Oct 9th
We're holding a Hackathon / Fedora Activity Day at Olin College in Needham, MA!
Etherpad is open source software for teams to type together on the same document.
Join a team of students, alumni, and Fedora Linux hackers as we improve Etherpad for ourselves and the world!
== When? ==
** Friday, October 8th - Saturday, October 9th **
(and maybe early Sunday if we get some of the no-sleep crowd).
Dinner on Friday. Dinner and lunch Saturday.
Can't attend in person? Remotely join us! See the wiki.
Check us out on the wiki and twitter:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD
http://twitter.com/olinetherpadfad
Its going to be a wild ride and we're stoked. There has been tons of organization, emailing, room reservation, code wading, weighing of audiences, budgeting, etc... but its totally worth it. The FADs going to be a blast and we hope that you'll join us!
We just have to figure out what boundaries we'll cross next time. FudCon? We shall see.
P.S. You've probably never heard of Olin College, but you should
totally look at the crazy higher-ed experiment we're running:
