OwlManAtt’s Blog

I am pleased to announce that I have written a Subversion tutorial for the Syndicate. Please see the following press release from the Syndicate website for more details and a link.

Calgary, Alberta (Yasashiisyndicate.org) - Syndicate member Nicholas Evans is pleased to announce the release of the Syndicate’s first tutorial, Subversion In Fifteen Minutes. This is the first in a long series of document that the Syndicate plans to release as a part of its Seekrit Plan.

About Subversion
Subversion is the premiere source control management software package. The Subversion project was founded by a number of individuals who were discontect with CVS and its philosophies. Since its founding in June of 2000, nearly six years ago, incredible progress has been made.

About The Yasashii Syndicate
The Yasashii Syndicate, otherwise known as the Gentle Syndicate, is an organization dedicated to its execution of The Sekrit Plan. The Sekrit Plan’s goals, to outsiders, seem strange and mysterious. To syndicate members, however, The Sekrit Plan makes perfect fucking sense.

For more information about the Yasashii Syndicate, please see yasashiisyndicate.org/about.
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Subversion In Fifteen Minutes.

You kids may notice that I did a bit of housekeeping on my blogroll. I removed two dead links (ppip & iffyb), updated Uberuser’s link (now hosted here on Eron!), and added one new link.

The new link goes to the weblog of a certain Jonathan Coulton. Mister Coulton is a musician that releases a new song under the Creative Commons every week. I highly advise all of my readers to listen to a few of his songs. This shit is great.

Some of my favories:

• Curl
• Mandelbrot Set
• Flickr

But there’s a lot more!

So at our last SCOSUG meeting, Al Gordon mentioned that there was going to be a Ruby on Rails workshop in DC that he was thinking about attending. This workshop is called ‘Workshop For Good‘, and it’s being put together by a teacher at a DC highschool.

Naturally, a Ruby on Rails workshop piqued my curiosity. Since Al was going, he said I could tag along with him…so I signed up. Currently, I’m #1 on the waiting list, but (judging by the email conversation I had with the organizer), I’m in, thanks to Al giving him a bit of a nudge. Kudos to Al.

As you may have infered from the name, this workshop isn’t Just Another RoR Class. It’s actually a fundrasier for the Chavez Public Charter School. From the Workshop’s ‘Purpose’ page, it seems like Chavez has been doing a lot for the community.

Our typical student enters 9th grade reading on a 4th grade level. Without significant improvement there is no way that student can succeed in college. We have a rigorous literacy program that pushes ability to the maximum rate of improvement. Last year our students showed more improvement in reading ability than any other school in DC.

Sadly, Chavez isn’t as much of a financial success as Yale has been (you know, Chavez can’t afford to buy Washington D.C. </yale-burn>).

Things that most people take for granted are missing in DC public schools. It’s a luxury for a class to have textbooks – you can practically forget about students having their own copy. Technology is largely outdated and worn down.

Hence, the fundrasier. It’s been a $400 registration fee. All five of the student slots had been filled by the time I registered (bloody college students, always whining about their student debts…it’s all beer money to them!). Because it’s charity, and for people who seem to know what they’re doing, I don’t mind the extra $200.

So I guess OwlManAtt will be doing DC in a few weeks. The trip is still sort of being planned. Cya down south!