SHGODH is a community hackathon-type-event in Vancouver on Friday, May 11th, 1pm to 1am.

Posts about the event:

• http://www.ivantohelpyou.com/blog/2007/05/super-happy-grow-op-dev-house.html
• http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/super-happy-indeed
• http://nearlyfree.org/vancouver-hack-thon
• http://www.buffmuthers.com/~midge/archives/2007_05.html
• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/shdh/
• http://www.miss604.com/2007/05/superhappydevhouse-live-blog.html
• http://johnbiehler.com/2007/05/11/super-happy-dev-house-vancouver/
• http://randomdude.com/blog/threads/2427-Super-Happy-Vancouver-Lux-Map
• http://freegeekvancouver.org/?q=en/node/82

Details

• Based on a Super Happy Dev House, but with a Vancouver flair.

From the SHDH site:

SuperHappyDevHouse is a hackathon event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. Come to the DevHouse to have fun and get things done. Not a marketing event. It's a non-exclusive event intended for passionate and creative technical people that want to have some fun, learn new things, and meet new people.

Where: The Bryght Offices
When: May 11th, 1pm to 1am

Socialtext will supply a keg-o-beer. Bring your own high intensity fluorescents.

Free Geek will be here to accept hardware donations and raise e-waste awareness and assist with keg drainage. Bring hardware for hacking! Email us with ideas!!

There will also be a Slackathon in a corner somewhere. In the Slackathon area it is forbidden to talk about work and there will be no meetings or processing. If any work conversation happens you are free to put fingers in ears and say "La la la I can't hear you I'm at the Slackathon".

RSVP

Total: ~63 (please increment)

Party Details

Decided

• Socialtext to bring a keg-o-beer (need to order)
• ActiveState will promote on website, blog, and to mailing lists
• ActiveState will pitch in a couple hundred dollars for food/drinks
• Sophos will pitch in $100 for food and drink
• JeffG of Active State will spin some tunes, MackH will bring some tunes

To work out

• Event tag: shgodh
• Power strips?
• Networking? Extra switches?
• BorisMann: we've got 802.11n wireless throughout; there is an extra IP or two available for plugging in nefarious networking gear
• Food? Any sponsors? Items for BBQ?
• Could bbq veggies, tofu, dogs
• Drinks? Redbull sponsorship? Anyone know any red-bullers?
• chriss - looking into Rockstar sponsorship
• Advertising/Hype?
• blogs?
• Contact other vancouver companies?
• SXIP
• EZ / Foo Associates
• Now Public (Bryght officemates)
• Raincity Studios
• need to coordinate for May 12th, National Limerick Day
• It's the Boccia Ball World Cup this weekend next to the hotel

Rough notes on what everyone said when we went around the room at 4pm. It's a wiki, fix whatever is wrong...

John - web dev by day, geek by night, here to soak up ambiance
— anderson - toronto virtualization mgmt systems anomoly. enterprise release coming soon, ec2 migration virtualization
Radek - hardware - web dev mtn biking riptv.com
Scott Nelson - tech steward - move ppl onto open source. drupal, mediawiki advocate. freegeek director. first zen server.
Hubert. i'm french. graphic designer. web designer. drupal.
Jack Bates. web app desktop env integration. gallergy project. mediawiki. xmpp, wants to know about it.
Will. inquisit, victoria does large scale analysis of web traffice, perl stuff, large data, secruity.
David Repa, freegeek vancouver. ewaste. recycling. also we need volunteers.
Steve Kuhn - ubc web designer
Christian w - bellingham web contract work telco
Keith - social entrepenur graphics advertising. vancoiuver dodgeball league Tech groupie. i dont know any code but i do know how to market it
Peter Scott - perlmedic or perl debug - hacker, author, trainer, i guess you could say i like perl. ident management for nasa to pay the bills
Phil, with bcit broadcasting.
Devon - bcit tv program, cameraperson
Marc Lavallee - new guy at socialtext here to get hazed. wash dc. playing with wiipedia, make search engine for it that doesn't suck.
Ianiv S. - Now Public it's right across the hall. IE login, not fun, working on that. supposed to be working on drupal...
Steven Wittens - bryght, drupal, javascript, pretty things, ponies, rainbows. cool stuff on the web and making it not suck
Matt Liggett - socialtext trying to change object relational mapping in our software and get rid of it
Another freegeek - from london
Zac Bir - Socialtext guy - make it so our code uses less than the left half of cpan.
Chris Dent - decouple our code from apache. nearly done.
Boris - we're trying to make socialtext self aware and take over the universe, right?
Dave Shea - bright creative. not the same as bryght author the zen of css design mezzoblue.com, css zen garden
Trevor Cally - maverick corp communications software for marine shipping industry php javascript. am losing my hackathon virginity.
— ericson - support at bryght and some development on the side for fun
Robert Scales - pres rain city studios drupal consulting
jeremy stashewsky - perl - flapjacks kind of like javascript
luke closs - helped make this happen - socialtext building things on top of the wiki - using the api. make web 2.0 look like web 1.0 Blikistan Also a juggler.
dwayne - i know a lot aboutt he sublteties of the internet. i'm building a hangover.
chris simmons - sophos - perl and javascript
liz henry - open source community mgr
chris mcmahon - WATER firewater - firefox collaborating with this guy from Denver
Boris - what about the selenium master?
McChris - well...
Kevin Jones - working at socialtext - not sure what doing
jordan - tell10friends - marketing - party crasher
roland - bryght - blogging since 1999 woudl like to make a 10 line python script on my phone, drupal mobile communities online
scott plot-o-matic ruby on rails graphing for scientists
david ascher - activestate, ex sophos i've had some beer already - I've done a lot of python, javascript, mozilla platform
blogger from miss604.com
john - ? has barcamp shirt on
boris - a founder of bryght. this is fun. I know how to commit to a subversion repository so THEORETICALLY I know how to code. what's a cool thing we cna do while we're here?
someone: google mashup?
boris: boring!
someone: peer to peer filesharing over gmail!
someone: firefox plugin! throwing down the gauntlet:
someone: new control system for the space shuttle!
keith: nice to hang with y'all. blogged. thanks for the hot dogs.

Cookie recipes

If you were there late in the evening, you might have noticed cookies. As promised, here are the recipes.

Surprise cookies (small, white, chocolate-laden)

• 2 egg whites
• 1/8 ts cream of tartar
• 1/8 ts salt
• 3/4 c sugar
• 1/4 ts vanilla
• 6 oz mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or foil (NOT oil).
In mixer, combine egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt. Gradually turn up speed until eggs are foamy. Slowly add sugar while mixer is running (I use swifty baker's sugar) until mixture forms stiff peaks. Fold in remaining ingredients.
Drop by the teaspoonful on cookie sheets and put in oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, turn off oven and allow cookies to remain 2 hours to overnight. Remove from oven and store in an airtight container.

Ginger creams (gingerbread light)

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Combine:
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup mild molasses
1 cup sugar
1 cup softened butter
1 cup sour milk (my mom used aged buttermilk, but you can create your own sour milk by adding a bit of lemon juice)

Sift together and add:
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
about 4 cups flour

Spread into a standard half-sheet pan and bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.

When half-cool, drizzle with a light powdered sugar glaze. (1/4 cup melted butter, 3 TB lemon juice, powdered sugar to loose consistency)

I can bring 4 x 24 Port Switches if they're needed. Might bring a Mini-itx box too.

contributed by Jon Gabriel on May 8 3:00pm