72 hour Geek-a-thon

How many computers does a geek use if a geek could use computers?

• Casey arrived Wednesday and immediately got to work on:
  -- coding several updates to the site:
  -- Birthdays are now captured
  -- A Google Map feature that allows users to specify their location is in beta
  -- fixed bug related to password retrieval
  -- started a CentOS 5 install on 7 servers
  -- helped install a load balancer for www3, 4 and 5
  -- worked getting Naz up to speed on CS code
  


• Chris worked on building the tech team by writing up the "Tech Priorities" for the next 3 months, increasing membership in China, brainstorming improved groups communication and sliding scale verification updates.
  


• Duke continued his research to find appropriate costs for Sliding Scale verification.
  


• Jim continued his work on the current verification system, CUQ updates, and improved meetings brainstorming.
  


• Naz rewrote the database schema in PostGreSQL, hopefully convincing others that it's not as big of a change as some people believe.
  


• Weston spent the week finishing some details on the time/date changes and got the Rotterdam Test Server up and running again with a cronjob that automatically updates the CouchSurfing Website running on it from the SVN HEAD revision.
  


• Walter just tried to stay up to date on all collective related things while he spent the weekend with his "normie"-friends. He also met up with some fellow CS-ers (amongst which Thomas, ex-CS-dev) on Thursday in Antwerp when he was there for work.
  

The uber geek-a-thon started Friday and didn't end until ..... you won't believe it ... Sunday afternoon!

• Dinner Friday, then tech meeting
  

• After the tech meeting Diederik, Nicco and Andreas stayed here and had a couple of beers while having a lot of good (read: geeky) discussions about tech stuff related to CS. Diederik finally went home in the early morning, while Nicco and Andreas stayed the night (almost without sleeping)
  


• On saturday, a lot of hard work was done, after which Nicco and Andreas decided to spend another night :) Finally on Sunday morning Nicco was forced home by a friend he had to meet.
  

Fun times at Ridgemont High

• Wednesday - soccer in the park, an amazing time where we created an experience where everyone would be


• Friday - dinner with the the local sys admins (geekdom begins)


• Saturday - Chris spent the weekend in Amsterdam


• Sunday - Naz, Tiina and Walter spent the day at ParkPop in Den Haag