Plans for POSSCON & Our Activity's Progress

Tomorrow will be my first of two days at POSSCON, and I'm very excited for the event.  Just a quick overview again of who I plan on meeting over Thursday/Friday:

Walter Bender - Founder of SugarLabs
Speaking @ 1:15 - 2:00 PM on Thursday
Topic: Using & Modifying the Sugar Platform



John Metric - SugarCRM
Speaking @ 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM on Friday
Topic:  SugarCRM:  Your Next Business Application






Dave Stokes: MySQL Manager
Not speaking?  Oh well.  I'll still try and meet him at some point.







Sebastian Dziallas:  Sugar on a Stick
Another Sugar developer!  I'll be sure to meet him and find out something
interesting.







My planned Schedule:

Thursday:
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Web Hosting - Knocking out Application Layer & Open Source Threat
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM: Open Source Gaming (or maybe the Hidden Costs of Closed Source Software)
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM: Learning to Learn: Using & Modifying the Sugar Platform
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM: The Secrets of Building Real Time Big Data Systems
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM: Starting and Running a Business on-the-cheap with Open Source
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM: Open Source Communications with Asterisk

Friday:
9:45 AM - 11:45 AM: SugarCRM: Your Next Business Application
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM: The History of Linux

Overall, I'm very excited to see how the next two days are going to turn out.



Activity Progress:
During class on Tuesday, we made some significant changes to our project.  We've decided to go with an even simpler design.  We got rid of the Combo-boxes (traditionally known as a drop-down box).   We've instead just replaced them with text so that the user can simply put how many servings of each food category they've had for the day.  We will most likely expand on this as time goes by, but I think for now it's best to start out simple and just get something accomplished.  Once we've gotten a handle on the project as a whole, we will (hopefully) have enough time to go ahead and improve on things.  We still need to implement an algorithm that gets the user's Health meter for the day, but Megan came up with a general idea for the algorithm.  That will be the next task we will strive for this weekend after POSSCON.