Re: KFest 2007 Report

[Kirk Mitchell <kirkmitchell@gmail.com>]

Day 5,

I got to bed at a decent hour last night.  Of course, the half dozen
folks who went to Denny's didn't bet back until around 4 AM.  I'd
already been asleep for an hour.  B-{)

Got up at 7:30 am, and made it to breakfast and coffee.  Lots of
coffee.  I helped Ryan haul my GS to the Student Center where he
prepared for his session "Suck Free Zone".  If a GS programmer doesn't
have a program for KFest, tradition is that he/she sucks.  Ryan didn't
suck.  His program allowed you to send SMS text messages to cell
phones.  Interesting!

Andrew Roughan did a quick demo of his HackFest program.  He'd finally
got it working last night.  Ryan and I thought he was moving in with
us because he wouldn't leave off debugging his work on my GS.  B-{)
It's called ShareClip and allows you to share or receive the contents
of the GS's clipboard with Macs, Windows, or other GS's which are also
running a program called ShareClip.  That would be useful during my
chat sessions on a2central.com, since it's difficult to get folks
posting long URL's to take them to tinyurl.com first, since I chat on
my GS, but surf on a G5 and hate to have to retype those URL's on the
G5 to see the sites.

Carrington Vanston gave an interesting session on recording audio for
podcasting or other purposes.  Ryan should take a hint, but he says
his standards aren't that high.  B-{)

Next came lunch, followed shortly by another A2unplugged LIVE
session.  You should find that distributed pretty shortly.  I
whoohooed again, but I'm getting weaker as KFest finishes up...  B-{(

HackFest awards were given, and Michael Mahon walked away with an
Apple //c+ in an Apple carrying case for his program demonstrating a
bouncing ball travelling between two computers running NadaNet.
Nifty!

We moved back to the dorm to have the swap meet/vendor fair, and I
dropped a few more bills on Apple II stuff.

Then  it off to KC Masterpiece for some excellent BBQ.  I'm glad I
decided to get the half slab of ribs rather than the full one.  I'm
still stuffed!

Back at the dorm, we held the finals of the GShisen contest, where
Geoff Weiss claimed the prize.  $50 off of anything in Syndicomm's
library of goods.

The Wii got packed away, so now folks are playing other board games
and cards...  How refreshing!

As for me, I'll be up a little longer, but since I have a long drive
tomorrow, I won't be staying up too late.  It'll be breakfast
tomorrow, then packing to leave yet another great KFest!  It was great
meeting old friends and new faces of folks who share an interest in
the Apple II!

Hope to see you here in 2008!

Kirk