Is another great day for Mono! Last night Paco Martinez, Joseph Hill and Zac Bowling met at this local Dallas Cafe to talk about Mono evangelism in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Gecko# Win32 installers, gotmono.net and much more.
I am very impressed with Zac. He is a very talented dude (there was a certain Ben Mauer "je ne sais quoi" to him). Joseph as usual is one of the most grounded and matured professionals that like a trusted compass, keeps me focused and on target for the mission of Mono education and dissemination in North Texas.
Joseph has a presentation coming up this Saturday morning for the North Texas Linux User Group. We were going over his slide deck and discussing some of the challenges of reaching to Linux Admin types while speaking of a project that is so closely related with software development.
While talking about presentations, I want to thank the Fort Worth .NET User Group for opening their doors to us Moneros ;) I will be doing a presentation in Fort Worth this coming Tuesday. I owe a special gratitude to Cory Smith and to Stephen Swienton for the coordination and getting the word out to the members of the User Group.
Already in the horizon there is another Mono presentation at the Plano .NET User Group (March 2, 2005). That presentation promises to be great and there is even the possibility that we will have our own Erik Dasque (Mono Product Manager) visiting us! Again here I want to thank Eric Sowell for mobilizing and encouraging this event and the great Jason Alexander (President of the PDNUG and author of NGallery). Although there will be some overlap in the contents of the presentations, my intention is to build a bit on the previous one (FWDNUG) so if you attend one you will then be better prepared for the other.
If we could only get Todd Berman, and Miguel de Icaza to come over here for that banquet I keep promising them at Boi na Braza.
Atsushi and Sebastian are back at helping me out with, my quest for the prefect Cygwin distribution for building Mono from SVN in Win32. These two guys have helped me test my CDs before but just yesterday Atsushi pointed me to this source forge location where I found the perl XML::Parser that we were missing for building ./mono/cil/make-opcodes-def.pl. We are getting very close. Thank you guys!
Sometime over the weekend Kevin Shockey and I will publish an entry in his blog at O'Reilly describing how to build Mono from source in Win32 while using the readily available Mono combined installer to quickly and easily satisfy build prerequisites.
He is doing great and he is in good spirits. He keeps talking about all the plans he has for once he gets out of the military. I think he is a very talented graphic artist and has quite a clue about web designs and more. As soon as he gets out we will have a great set of hands to help with all things multimedia :)
Well, I'm very glad to see you're getting to lecture in my area. I'll be sure to be there and to say 'hi'.
Eric
http://thecodinghumanist.blogspot.com
