The video recording of my presentation: Introduction to Agile Software Development at the Tulsa School of Dev has been posted on User Group TV website.
Thanks to Shawn Weisfeld for all the time and money he has put into finding a way to bring community event to a broader audience.
Community Leadership Town Hall – Tulsa Techfest
October 6th, 2011 6 – 10 PM – OSU Room NH150
We had a great turnout at last years Town Hall and this year we are doing it again. There was a lot of great participation and discussion regarding common issues we all experience as community leaders. This is a great forum for getting input from other community leaders.
What is a Community Leadership Town Hall?
In many towns and cities across the country the town hall is the center of the community. The town hall is where the local governments keep offices, serves as the main base for the Mayor, and is where citizens of the community come to work with the official representatives to share issues, ideas, and solutions that can make their community better.
The Community Leadership Town Hall brings this concept to community leaders in your area. The evening will be filled with discussions about issues, ideas, and solutions regarding creating, maintaining, and growing user groups and technical communities. This will be a highly interactive night where everyone will have a chance to suggest a topic and voice their opinion.
Bring your questions, ideas, issues, and willingness to share to the Houston Community Leadership Town Hall.
This is a free event! Please join us.
Event Sponsors:
There was an awesome turnout for the Community Leadership Town Hall #3 during the Dallas Techfest. There were about 35 folks in attendance, which lead to a lively discussions on several very awesome questions from the user group leader community.
Some of the discussions lead to a list of sites that of were to interest so I wanted to make sure I made them available.
Finding User Groups:
Calling for Speakers:
Open Spaces Technology:
Thanks again to all who attended and to Improving Enterprises for the awesome space, and Component One for pizza from Dough Bros.
If you would be interested in having a Community Leadership Town Hall with your event please contact me.
Community Leadership Town Hall – Dallas TechFest 2011
August 12th, 2011 7 PM – 10 PM – Improving Enterprises– Jay Smith
In many towns and cities across the country the town hall is the center of the community. The town hall is where the local governments keep offices, serves as the main base for the Mayor, and is where citizens of the community come to work with the official representatives to share issues, ideas, and solutions that can make their community better.
The Community Leadership Town Hall brings this concept to community leaders in your area. The evening will be filled with discussions about issues, ideas, and solutions regarding creating, maintaining, and growing user groups and technical communities. This will be a highly interactive night where everyone will have a chance to suggest a topic and voice their opinion.
We will be providing light hors d’oeuvres and talking community so bring your questions, ideas, issues, and willingness to share and I’ll see you there.
I want to thank our sponsors for helping make this event possible:
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The other day I was finally feed up. Every day when I open my Git Bash window to pull in some new changes or push an update to GitHub the commands just seem to take forever to run. Even just a simple ls outputs the directory information to the screen but takes about 8+ seconds before the prompt returns.
I finally resolved myself to figuring out how to speed things up. As usual Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow) to the rescue. Someone else was also experiencing the same issue, Git/Bash is extremely slow in Windows 7 x64.
The solution for me was to uninstall mysysGit 1.7.4, re-install, and then reboot. Now the Git Bash command return almost instantly.
Oh, don’t forget to backup any files you may have had in the git home directory, like .gitignore, etc.
***UPDATE - 6/28/2011***
This turned out to be only part of my problem, the next day the slowness returned. After doing a little more investigation I determined that my $HOME was being set to %HOMEDRIVE$%HOMEPATH%. Which for me turned out to be a network mapped drive, my company has a logon script that maps me to a networked home drive. This also explains some issues I had with configs when not on the work network since it was looking in two places.
The next solution was to create an environment variable HOME and point to to where I wanted all of my config files to reside, not on the network of course 
. To keep it simple and to make it work for all users I pointed HOME to %USERPROFILE%.
Now, the Git Bash commands are running a lot faster.