I am super excited about tonights meeting. In addition to our usual projects we will have two new product pitches and some very interesting business related discussions.

Just to wet your appetite hear is an excerpt of one of tonights products by Michael O'Meara who is looking for other developers to join his effort:

Active Agenda is a mature Open Source project that is a Risk Management application that is still quietly in >development with two of the founders in Fresno and part time help from Bruce Perens (OSI co-founder). It is >one of the very few projects released under a OSI-Reciprocal Public License (RPL). It runs on a LAMP/WAMP >tack and is in production use by many businesses including banks, insurance companies, wineries, energy >companies, as well as my production environment with Catholic Healthcare West, University of Wisconsin, and a >health system in Cincinnati.

I've developed several extension-modules specific to healthcare. I'm seeking developers to integrate/extend the application and possibly join my company. Projects on my roadmap include:

• Integrated support for image scanners (SANE or TWAIN)
• Jasper Reports integration (user-triggered creation of pre-defined reports)
• Integration with Google Wave-in-a-Box (when available)
• Automated email notifications (manual notifications already functional)

I hope to see you tonight.

-Andrew

Over the past several weeks I have been sharing my ideas for the Code Dojo with more and more people. Through almost every meeting I have been impressed with the level of excitement and interest in both mentoring young engineers and shipping products. I am feeling an excitement in Boise that I have never felt before in the 9 years that I have lived here. There is a lot going on the Boise software development scene right now and I am excited to see how a small group of coders can help push things to the next level.

In other news: I (and my lack of design skills) took a stab at a logo for the Code Dojo this morning. What do you think? Should I quite my day job as a coder?

-Andrew