Question: How many Rockboxers are from New York or the Tri-State Area?

[LambdaCalculus]

All right, perfect! The Upper West Side has got some great watering holes!

Everybody, make note! I'll be finding a bar up in that area for everyone to gather at!

[LambdaCalculus]

Well, after meeting with markun today and introducing him to a few New York Rockboxers, we showed him around a little bit, accompanied him to where he's staying, went for a bite to eat, and discussed many things Rockbox and non-Rockbox.

We also settled on a location for... THE ROCKBOX NEW YORK MEETUP.

We will be at a bar on Lafayette Street called Puck Fair. It's fairly large and should have enough space for a few Rockboxers to gather. A location on Google Maps is here for those who wish to find us. Just look for the Rockbox logo, or shout "Rockbox!" and see who shouts back.

We'll be there by 7:00 PM, so come on by. Bring your Rockboxed DAP and some beer money! Laptops are optional.

Hope to see some friendly faces there later today!

[evilnick]

See y'all there around 7ish then!  

[scorche]

Rockbox DevConBigApple?  DevConCity?  Well, only one dev...

Hrm...sadly, I can't think of much else (morning..) at the moment, but we have to have a name!  To follow in the tradition of DevCon, DevConWest, DevConPub, DevConGoogle, etc.  

[LambdaCalculus]

I like Rockbox BigAppleCon... it's New York-ish.

[scorche]

... it's New York-ish.

I totally wasn't going for that.  

[LambdaCalculus]

We could try for ManhattanCon, but that sounds a little clichéd... (like BigAppleCon isn't... )

How about PubConManhattan?

(EDIT: spelling... thanks, GodEater!)

[GodEater]

Do you mean "clichéd"?

[Davide-NYC]

Brothers (and sisters), I just received word of this. I will be at Puck Fair at 7pm.
I'll see you there with an iriver H120-RTC, a Gigabeat F20 and some beer money.
Done deal!  

[LambdaCalculus]

We're going to try and get a good sized seating area. Bring a camera for all those precious memories of the Tower of Rockbox!

[evilnick]

Maybe you should pay closer attention to the weather forecast before arranging these meetups!  

[LambdaCalculus]

At least the rain stopped well before we all got there, so maybe Mother Nature wanted us to meet!

Davide-NYC, evilnick, and markun: Picture posting!

All you devs out there: In our next exciting episode, we have one HUGE Tower of Rockbox to unleash on the world! Stay tuned!

[Davide-NYC]

Last night was fun. We had a small, enthusiastic turnout. The bar was too loud, the agenda was improvised, the beer was cold, and a good time was had by all. (I think!)

I took some random notes and will share them here for the record.

Folks present:
- LambdaCalculus379 : Rob
- markun : Marcoen
- evilnick : Nick
- Melba (Rob's girlfriend and Rockbox user)
- Davide-NYC : Davide

Players present:
- Archos Recorder
- iPod 5G
- iriver H120-RTC
- iriver H140
- iriver H340
- gigabeat F (one F20 and 2 F40)

We discussed the following:

3.0 release.
- Is a 3.0 release necessary? For some it seems to be.
- What targets qualify at this point? The coldfire targets. Others?
- What bugs exists on these targets that preclude a release? None that I know of now that the recording with disk full bug has been squashed. (actually I should test that myself)

Gigabeat cross sensor.
- Marcoen pointed out that there are 13 sensors on the Gigabeat crosspad. EvilNick and Myself both suffered the 'wierd' feel of the input and suggest that some code improvements would greatly benefit the 'feel' of the gigabeat crosspad.

We talked about the test_codec plugin for a bit.
- leave test_codec.c commented out in the SWCODEC section of the SOURCES file
- fix the 'codec switching causes crash when using test_codec' bug
- we should establish a standard RockBox test audio file as well as download-able test archive
- short discussion of how cool a full transcoder plugin would be. (the hotness)

All present admitted to not caring about Games or Video but agreed that we need a backlight brightness control for mpeg player!  

A few codecs could still use some more optimizing. Namely M4A (am ducking behind my desk)

Rob (LambdaCalc) pointed out an inconsistent bug on the 5G ipod having to do with button response lagging after releasing the hold switch. Rob, post that bug to the tracker!

Some animated DCMA, RIAA, MPAA discussion flared up quickly and then cooled off just as quickly as we returned to the subject at hand. Rockbox!

I kept asking everyone what the most important feature for 2008 should be and the consensus seemed to be Viewports and Scalable Fonts. Marcoen (the only Dev present) mentioned that anything that would abstract the code from the target is good for portability. (paraphrased) And that currently the code was too tied to the individual players and doesn't scale as well as it should. (again, paraphrased)

Rob and Melba would like to see more language files included in RockBox and may take a stab at  getting Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese language files generated.

We talked briefly about the foxconn connector for the gigabeat and how digital I/O and recording on gigabeat would make me consider getting rid of my H120-RTC. Maybe I will investigate disassembling my gigabeat cradle...

I left at 9:30.

Guys, what did I miss?  
Marcoen, Nick, post some pics of the tower of RockBox. (T.O.R.)

[Chronon]

We talked briefly about the foxconn connector for the gigabeat and how digital I/O and recording on gigabeat would make me consider getting rid of my H120-RTC. Maybe I will investigate disassembling my gigabeat cradle...

I guess another nice idea would be to package up a decent ADC in a module that connects to the foxconn connector to allow analog recording also.

[peachtoast]

Davide: Hi! It's me! The only female present last night.  

I'm going to try to find a consistent set of phrases for the Tagalog language file.  The only problem is that we have a small dialect barrier to overcome.  

Here's the Wikipedia page describing what I'm talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagalog_language