Chomping at Chandler

I’m staying at the Ramada Plaza hotel near 8th Street and Market. The nice thing is that it’s two BART stops away from 2nd & Market, which is very close to OSAF.

This week OSAF is having a “sprint”. This is when two developers get together to implement something using whatever project they are working on. In this case, I’m teamed up with Jeffrey (who goes gaming with me on the occasional Wednesday night when I’m in town) and we’re doing a feedback parcel. (Chandler’s “parcels” are similar to plugins, except they are usually just Python scripts).

Tonight was special because we all went out for dinner to a place called Osha Thai, at 149 2nd street. They served Thai food. Mmmmmm… I got to sit next to John, David, Andi, Alec and Heikki. Everyone else was too far away to talk to (it was pretty loud there).

Now I think I’ll watch a Zatoichi movie before heading to bed. Good night.

I will be at OSAF next week for the “sprint”. A sprint is where you get a bunch of people who want to learn to use something together with a bunch of other people who know how to use the same thing really well. I think.

So next week, OSAF is hosting a sprint that is going to be part of PyCon 2006. (I think) people can come to OSAF’s offices and try to write “parcels” (Chandler-ese for “plugin written in Python”) for Chandler. I am hoping to write one of my own. It would tie in nicely to the existing calendar - it would track working hours, which would help me do my billing more easily.

Hah!

I want to attend Bear’s key signing party, for which I need to generate a key and print out its info to bring along.

Then on Saturday there is an office post-holidays party, which should be fun. I will bring my camera, even though it pales in comparison to sprout’s.