Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Emily Shaffer]

After seeing Berlin have a meetup recently[1], I wonder if we have
enough critical mass for a similar meetup in Silicon Valley. I know of
my own team and one or two other contributors in the Bay, but since
there are so many developers here, surely there must be more?

Please respond (directly to me is fine, if you don't want the whole
world to know your location) with answers to the following, iff you
are in or near the Bay Area and interested to meet.

* Which part of the Bay is your preference? (San Francisco / East Bay
/ South Bay / Peninsula / other)

* Which days of the week/time of the day are you most available? (e.g.
weekdays after 6pm, weekend mornings, only Thursdays coinciding with
the crescent waning moon)

* If you are interested in helping to organize such a meetup, please
indicate this.

Hopefully we can get some fun meetup together, or even a recurring one :)
 - Emily

1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZqoQcuKz_ynYaBNM@tanuki/

Re: Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Luca Milanesio]

> On 8 Oct 2024, at 18:09, Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> wrote:
> 
> After seeing Berlin have a meetup recently[1], I wonder if we have
> enough critical mass for a similar meetup in Silicon Valley. I know of
> my own team and one or two other contributors in the Bay, but since
> there are so many developers here, surely there must be more?
> 
> Please respond (directly to me is fine, if you don't want the whole
> world to know your location) with answers to the following, iff you
> are in or near the Bay Area and interested to meet.

We (GerritForge) are based in Sunnyvale, CA, and would be interested.
Currently, we host the GerritMeets once a month (see https://www.meetup.com/gerritmeets/), and we often talk about Git topics.

Gerrit is 100% based on Git for everything, including reviews and all meta-data.
Not a surprise, therefore, that 90% of the Gerrit topics are actually Git topics.

> * Which part of the Bay is your preference? (San Francisco / East Bay
> / South Bay / Peninsula / other)

San Francisco is always a bit far to reach if you don’t live in the city.

Anywhere around Mountain View / Sunnyvale / Cupertino / San Jose would be best for us.

> * Which days of the week/time of the day are you most available? (e.g.
> weekdays after 6pm, weekend mornings, only Thursdays coinciding with
> the crescent waning moon)
> 
> * If you are interested in helping to organize such a meetup, please
> indicate this.

Dani typically organises the GerritMeets; I’m sure he would be happy to help with the Git meetups as well :-)

Luca.

Re: Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Carlisle T. Hamlin]

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On 10/8/24 10:09, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> After seeing Berlin have a meetup recently[1], I wonder if we have
> enough critical mass for a similar meetup in Silicon Valley. I know of
> my own team and one or two other contributors in the Bay, but since
> there are so many developers here, surely there must be more?

That would be nifty.

> * Which part of the Bay is your preference? (San Francisco / East Bay
> / South Bay / Peninsula / other)

I don't care, especially, so long as there's parking at the venue.

> * Which days of the week/time of the day are you most available? (e.g.
> weekdays after 6pm, weekend mornings, only Thursdays coinciding with
> the crescent waning moon)

I'm available throughout the week; just need to work around my business 
travel schedule.

> * If you are interested in helping to organize such a meetup, please
> indicate this.

Sure. I'd love to get involved. Let's get on one another's lunch 
calendars to talk about putting this together.

I have availability for an early meetup on Friday, the 18th. Say 11am?



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Re: Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Elijah Newren]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 10:09 AM Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> wrote:
>
> After seeing Berlin have a meetup recently[1], I wonder if we have
> enough critical mass for a similar meetup in Silicon Valley. I know of
> my own team and one or two other contributors in the Bay, but since
> there are so many developers here, surely there must be more?

Sounds fun.

> Please respond (directly to me is fine, if you don't want the whole
> world to know your location) with answers to the following, iff you
> are in or near the Bay Area and interested to meet.
>
> * Which part of the Bay is your preference? (San Francisco / East Bay
> / South Bay / Peninsula / other)

South Bay (southeast San Jose would be optimal, but Sunnyvale/Mountain
View/etc. are fine)

> * Which days of the week/time of the day are you most available? (e.g.
> weekdays after 6pm, weekend mornings, only Thursdays coinciding with
> the crescent waning moon)

Tues & Fri tend to be the most free currently; there's a reasonably
good chance I could attend if the event is on one of those days.
Can't do early mornings (getting kids to school...); might be able to
do an evening but they're a bit more likely to conflict than during
the day, but between those are likely fine.

> * If you are interested in helping to organize such a meetup, please
> indicate this.
>
> Hopefully we can get some fun meetup together, or even a recurring one :)
>  - Emily
>
> 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZqoQcuKz_ynYaBNM@tanuki/

Re: Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Scott Chacon]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 7:10 PM Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> wrote:
> After seeing Berlin have a meetup recently[1], I wonder if we have
> enough critical mass for a similar meetup in Silicon Valley. I know of
> my own team and one or two other contributors in the Bay, but since
> there are so many developers here, surely there must be more?

I helped organize the Berlin one, but I'm in the Bay Area often and
would be happy to attend or even help organize there.

> * Which part of the Bay is your preference? (San Francisco / East Bay
> / South Bay / Peninsula / other)

I personally feel like SF is good, since I live in Berkeley and SF is
easiest to reach from both the east bay and the peninsula. But I can
make it anywhere.

> * Which days of the week/time of the day are you most available? (e.g.
> weekdays after 6pm, weekend mornings, only Thursdays coinciding with
> the crescent waning moon)

We did our Berlin one in the evening. Good pizza and beer time.

> * If you are interested in helping to organize such a meetup, please
> indicate this.

I am happy to help organize, but I probably couldn't do it until early
Dec or early next year. Happy to do the next one if you feel that's
too far away.

Or, what also might be interesting is to do one in the evening on Mon
Oct 28th, as there will be a lot of people in town for GitHub
Universe.

Scott

Re: Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Taylor Blau]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 08:53:18AM +0200, Scott Chacon wrote:
> Or, what also might be interesting is to do one in the evening on Mon
> Oct 28th, as there will be a lot of people in town for GitHub
> Universe.

I'll be in town for that, and it would be a lot of fun to meet up with
some CA-local Git folks while I'm there, too.

Thanks,
Taylor

Re: Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Junio C Hamano]

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 08:53:18AM +0200, Scott Chacon wrote:
>> Or, what also might be interesting is to do one in the evening on Mon
>> Oct 28th, as there will be a lot of people in town for GitHub
>> Universe.
>
> I'll be in town for that, and it would be a lot of fun to meet up with
> some CA-local Git folks while I'm there, too.

I may be interested if I were nearby, but unfortunately I won't.
I'll be back online at the end of the month, but not in California.

Re: Interest in a Git meetup in Bay Area, California?

[Emily Shaffer]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 10:49 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 08:53:18AM +0200, Scott Chacon wrote:
> >> Or, what also might be interesting is to do one in the evening on Mon
> >> Oct 28th, as there will be a lot of people in town for GitHub
> >> Universe.
> >
> > I'll be in town for that, and it would be a lot of fun to meet up with
> > some CA-local Git folks while I'm there, too.
>
> I may be interested if I were nearby, but unfortunately I won't.
> I'll be back online at the end of the month, but not in California.

Yeah, I'll miss this as well as I'll be on leave - but I think it's a
great idea, if someone wants to coordinate it.

 - Emily