Hello everyone!
When I created this Slashdot party I thought just a few fellow UCSD CSE students would show up, however it looks like there was more interest than I anticipated, because of this I am thinking of changing the venue.
BarCamp San Diego 10 is the same weekend, we could take over a session at BarCamp, get Slashdot t-shirts and have a good old time enjoying BarCamp.
Or I can continue with my initial plan of meeting in the basement of the CSE building.
Any thoughts?
I'm leaning towards BarCamp.

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I thought the lecture was very interesting. I would have liked to see a lot of people running around in terror, or at least a gasp when he announced he would let the mosquito's out

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I live in this district. Nobody's getting unnecessary perks anymore. We're cut to the bone right now. Maintenance can't buy enough toilet paper and cleansers. They're understaffed so many teachers clean their own classrooms, otherwise they'd be lucky to see a vacuum twice a week. We laid off all the aides and half the secretaries five years ago, so the teachers do all their own copying and filing. The high schools have one IT tech each, and ours is run so ragged that clued teachers (or their spouses) handle anything that doesn't require server access. (The elementary and junior highs share one tech per two or three campuses.) Most high school classes exceed 30 students. (The PE sections may have 60. Yes, sixty.) This year, the district completely quit paying for bus transportation for all extra-curriculars.

I'm not fond of our school board. They play games with the calendar because they don't have the balls to stand up to their buddies who will pull their kids out of school (depriving them of state money) before Thanksgiving and in February to go skiing. But financially, I can't see how they could do better than where we are now. Clearly, we can get creative in making up supply budgets. A similar effort would not make up if they had cut the budget for teaching salaries instead.

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