We've had our first organisation meeting at the Bull Inn. Which I turned up 2 and a half hours late to, but everyone else seemed happy with how the meeting went. The minutes for it are here.
Since then we had our first actual hacking meeting, which Nikki Peugh hosted. She kindly lent us the use of her flat, she provided wifi, we provided food. That was the deal.
There were four of us in attendance, Nikki, Antonio (hellocatfood), Charlie and myself.
Antonio and Charlie concerned themselves with Processing (Processing is a scripting language for the Computer Science impaird, ie graphic artists and normal people) and Python ( a programming language for the everything impaired, ie me).
Nikki and I tried to get the counting iguanas to RFID system she had made to work. Iguanas with a fetching RFID badge, would walk past a reader and this would be tallied. An officious Walrus would come along and check this number, and publish it to Twitter. Nikki had got the code from a friend, and had it working on one computer. However when transferred to the computer doing the work, it stopped. The problem (after a couple of hours fiddling) was found to be in how Windows deals with spaces in pathnames. But we got it working, and now Nikki and her Walrus can count Iguanas to the hearts content.
The next hacking meeting is going to be at Linux Emporium. John Pinner has kindly let us use his company offices. There is a poll to show your support for a particular day. The poll will be closed on the 23rd March, so be quick!
See you then!
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