[event] LLSC26 - Our first week
I'm not going to make any promises, but I'm going to try and do weekly updates on LLSC as our time together rapidly slips through our grasp. If you're in disbelief that we're already a week into our summer camp together, then consider yourself amongst friends because I really wasn't prepared to write this yet!
Despite that, a ton has happened this past week and it is honestly both humbling and exhilarating to see. Let me get you the highlights real quick.
- After talking about doing this for a whole year and procrastinating making the necessary site changes to lambdacreate.com to actually support all of it, I managed to slide that all in under the wire and launch it!
- Shortly thereafter we managed to hit the hackernews, only briefly but dang that's cool! I found this neat little chart detailing the engagement stats on that post, which is kind of cool in its own right.
- We also ended up on lobste.rs for just as briefly! It didn't get any engagement though, better luck next time.
- Across this little flurry of engagement our little IRC group grew from ~6 infrequent regulars patiently waiting for things to start, right up to 12 active participants!
- In addition I've had a couple of people reach out about participating in just the Zine without the rest of the social/blogging aspects, which is also really exciting to see and just as welcomed! You know who you are I'm terrible at responding to emails, but will do so ASAP.
All of that is to say, wow! things really took off in a way I wasn't expecting and It's really amazing to see.
I unfortunately accomplished nothing in my actual lab, but I revived my Zune, and think I probably have a potential solution to get 2008r2 booting under Incus. RuslanS is looking into deploying Swish-e, a documentation indexing and search program originally created in 1994. Jason has been revisiting Vista, though he's trying to refrain from writing just about Windows since we seem to have a lot of that going on. In between chatter on how we're approaching our LLSC projects there's discussion of the arch our professional careers have taken, why we care so much about legacy systems and retrocomputing, why and how we learn things. And lots and lots of brainstorming!
I can't wait to hear more about everyone's projects, and look forward to highlighting them more as we go!