<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel@graphics-muse.org><br>To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue@cluedenver.org><br>Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:27:21 AM<br>Subject: Re: [clue] Xorg presentation in the fall<br><br>On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 15:21 -0600, YES NOPE9 wrote:<br>> I volunteer to be one of your myrmidons.<br><br>I don't know that term, but I assume you're hoping I'll lead. I'll need<br>more minions, then. Don't count on it unless we get a critical mass of<br>people (definitely more than 3).<br><br>> I would like to expand the charter of CLUE to engulf FLOSS / POSH.<br><br>I don't know POSH either. I think CLUE always included low level<br>development in its "charter". At least it did back when I helped start<br>it with Mark and Eric. BLUG tended to be more technical in that respect<br>and CLUE tended to be more business oriented (Boulder vs Tech Center -<br>made sense). At least back in the day. Things change.<br><br>> Does Denver/Boulder/COSprings/FtCollins have enough geeks ?????<br><br>IMHO:<br><br>The region is dominated by web development and storage systems. There<br>is a fairly large number of apps developers (iPad, Android). These tend<br>to drive user-space and scripted development - lots of python folks<br>around. The Springs has lots of government/military types, many of<br>which seem fixed on Java. The majority of the front range appears to be<br>focused on user space.<br><br>To my knowledge, board bring up and infrastructure development is not as<br>highly represented. Atmel has a presence in the Springs. HP does<br>printers up in Longmont. Of course, there is Sparkfun in Boulder.<br>Beyond that, I'm not aware of much consumer (or business/govt/military)<br>device development at the board level.<br><br>I'd like to see more stuff like BeagleBoard happening. Maybe its just<br>early for this kind of thing, like the early days of Linux.<br>-- <br>Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel@graphics-muse.org><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>There might be interest from a few people at Club Workshop. Some people there are into robotics.<br></div></body></html>