What shall we do?

[neilmanuell]

Any Ideas about new activities?
Old activities?
Variations on Old Activities?

[neilmanuell]

I think that having a project that we can work on through out the week and subsequently could be a good idea.

[mnem]

I forget if I (or someone else) mentioned this at the end of the last one, but I thought it may be interesting to pick an open source project and close some of their bugs for them. Might be tricky in a week, but is probably an interesting challenge. I'm sure @tschneidereit could point out some of his favourite mozilla/shumway issues :)

[richardlord]

I'd be very interested in working on a project that is trying to make the world a better place. There seems to be a growing trend in programmers trying to do something positive with their work - projects like Code for America and Random Hacks of Kindness come to mind - and making a contribution of that sort would be enjoyable and uplifting.

Jumping in to help out on an existing project, as David suggests, sounds more practical than starting something new, and a Mozilla project could be a good fit.

[Stray]

+1 for this - great suggestion.

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I'd be very interested in working on a project that is trying to make the world a better place. There is

Jumping in to help out on an existing project, as David suggests, sounds more practical than starting something new, and a Mozilla project could be a good fit.

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[tschneidereit]

Oh, I just saw this thread. @mnem, that is a great suggestion indeed. And might make it much more palatable for me to attend, even. :) I could make it an official work thing, perhaps.

[neilmanuell]

That is a great idea, an could also be a good way to nudge people (me for one) out of their comfort zones in a nice supportive atmosphere.

(I remember that Dave sat me down and helped me get node up and running on my machine. I know that that doesn't sound much, but with out that I might not have ventured down that path.)

[tam203]

I love this idea. I've always wanted to support some open source project but never made the jump, I would appreciate a push!

[neilmanuell]

Could the problem in the Pair programming sessions be working around a problem from an OS project. Obviously for the exercise it would be important to throw the code away, but it might be a good way to work at a problem that has more relevance?

Then this could lead to a more in depth exercise later.

[neilmanuell]

Also after reading @richardlord 's monopoly post why don't we have a a few games of Monopoly - tweeking the rules to see how it affects gameplay?