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Meeting Notes 2012-01-19

Table of Contents

We enter a meditation of M-x zone.

Guest lectures

  • Perry should give a lecture sometime. Probably not the first one though.

Editor usage

  • The outbreak of vim-usage on campus is probably Sam Panzer's fault.
  • A lot of professors use emacs.
    • Max Mintz uses chalk.
  • Andrew recounts the story of some guy.
    • Andrew : Do you know what emacs does?
    • Guy : I know you can play tetris in it.

Topics

  • Zach : I wanna learn awesome shit. Also some lisp.
    • Zach also wants to learn how to get line numbers to work.
  • Andrew proposes extending to general command-line fu.
    • Zach : We should just call it the neckbeard club.
  • Andrew : EMACS COMMAND OF THE WEEK!

Administration

  • John : Treasury? We don't have money.
  • John will be pressing the "send email" button.
  • John : Gauging interest in leadership… I'm going to do all the work, I think you all decided on that.
    • John Mayer for president!
  • John : We need to add all the cool things you do to the repo.
    • Mish : Add them! You said you'd do everything.
    • John : I'm delegating.

Mobile Devices

  • Andrew : They ported vim to the iPad. We should port emacs to the iPad.
  • John : Is the issh screen too small to do anything?
    • Andrew, Zach : Yes.
    • Zach : You can restart your server from your phone but that's about it.
    • Andrew : You can also ssh in and forkbomb eniac.
      • John will be targeting a random 505 student with forkbombs.

Publicity

  • Andrew : We should get CJ to post to everyone in his class last semester.
  • Zach : I can just post on Piazza and force it to send to everyone.
  • We will be collaboratively editing the email.
    • Mish : Google doc!
    • Andrew : Emacs!
  • Copying text from emacs into gmail is inefficient, compared to sending mail from emacs.
  • John : I really want our motto to be Never Too Late To :q
    • Never use vim. If you don't have emacs, use nano, or ed.
  • Zach requests pizza.
    • John : If we get food, then we're set.

Meeting Structure

  • Separate meetings for beginners and power users (though anyone can come to both).
    • Mish : If nobody shows up to the lecture we can just have one of our hack sessions.
  • We need a logo.

Misc.

  • Some guy stops by to retreive his gloves.
  • John registers localbriefs.com, for briefs of local news. Then he got the mental image of "local underwear."
    • John : I think I could still spin it into something useful though.
  • Mish : You can mark sections with C-<SPC> and the arrow keys.
    • Andrew : What arrow keys?
  • Zach is already that guy who plays with M-x zone.

Author: Matthew Croop

Date: 2012-11-14 17:49:55 EST

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