Programming Tonight is an informal weekly event held by members of the Chicago GNU/Linux group. We convene generally on Thursday or Friday nights at various locations (see: Free Wifi Spots in Chicago) to work on our own personal programming projects, either together, or individually. If you're looking for a project to help out with, or want some intelligent company to work on your own, join us for Programming Tonight.
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Current Meeting Info
Location: Fixx Coffee Bar 3053 N Sheffield Ave Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 248-0841
Time: Friday, Feb 15 at 7PM
Future Meeting Spots
Who knows? We usually decide in the last minute. We have a list of free wifi spots (see FreeWifiChicago ) that we've amassed, though very few of them work very well for what we want. It unfortunately seems as though we can't often find the combination of relatively quiet, free wifi, and open late, so we usually go to Ambrosia or Arabia Cafe. (Cyberia was perfect until it closed down). If you have something like that in mind, please add it to the list or bring it up.
Proposed Projects
Here at PT, we let you work on whatever you want. However, some people may want to come for the purpose of collaborating with others. Here, we will list projects that we want to consider working on. We will discuss which one we want at PT of Feb 15, 2007.
Feedmasher
- Contact:
- Repository:
Chump Rewrite
We want more out of Chump than the design of the program can easily support, so we're looking to write something to replace it. See Chump_rewrite_requirements
Fulltext Chump Search
- Contact: Tristan Sloughter
iWaffle
- Contact: Yacin Nadji
- Repository: N/A
iWaffle is an image uploader written in C/Objective-C and Cocoa for the popular image website, WaffleImages. Currently, the image upload code is complete. Most of the remaining work is to code in the necessary Cocoa bindings.
wootAlert
- Contact: Kevin Harriss
- Repository: N/A
wootAlert uses libnotify to send a desktop popup notification to alert you of a new product on woot. This can be very handy on woot offs.
Tilda
- Contact: Tristan Sloughter
- Repository: CVS
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life (to name a few), where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop until a key is pressed.
Feed Getter
- Contact: Dan
An RSS aggregator written in Python that gets the files you want, doesn't get the ones you don't want, and puts them where you want them. That's it.
Homebrew Tools
- Contact: Tristan Sloughter and Jordan Wilberding
Tools for:
- Storing personal beer recipes
- Performing brewing calculations
- Searching your personal and shared recipes based on ingredients
- Beer reviews
- Beer recommender
IRC
We typically discuss upcoming projects, and the location/time of the Programming Tonight meetings in our IRC channel: #chiglug-programmingtonight @ irc.oftc.net. If you want to become a larger part of Programming Tonight, join us in IRC or on our mailing list.
