Bitslingers Event on Feb 2nd

During one of the early CinARC meetings, as well as during an open space at the devLINK conference, it was brought up that in the .NET community we often point to people as experts while not even seeing a line of their code.  In some other software communities you may not be taken seriously until you’ve contributed to an open source project or posted your own code publicly so that people can see you know what you’re talking about.  This brought up the idea of having smaller coding get togethers which at CINNUG we are calling a Bitslinger event.  The concept will help provide an opportunity for our members, and anyone interested, to pair with others.

The first Bitslinger event will be at Panera Bread in the Deerfield Town Center in Mason.  For people familiar with CINNUG this is the shopping center just north of MAX Technical training where we have our meetings.  The event starts at 6:00 PM and run until whenever everyone is done.  Basically, come for as long as you want to be there.  This is very informal in that there is no topic or agenda.  Just bring your laptop and pair with some people.  You can decide to start an open source project, dabble in a new language or try some new technology.  The point of the event is to work with someone on code that you are interested in and learn from the experience.

I’ll be there, even if I’m the only one.

NOTE: No food will provided by the user group …but you know….we will be at a restaurant.