SFS Gathering in Longmont - Great Scotts!

Software Freedom First Saturday: The Gathering

Start your month building software freedom with your technical friends. Please tell your other technical friends about this group of technical friends. Friend to friend is our favorite form of marketing, because it's high signal, low BS.

If you sign up for one of our events and your plans change, please change your RSVP. We prep things for you and we flag no-shows.

Featured Small is Beautiful (SiB) Sessions:

• Scott One!

Title: The aging but ageless software tester.

Blurb: Through a curated set of new skills I offer tips to keep us writing software as energy and memory are backsliding. Also, we will do a short workshop. In slides I will show results from a small set of actual data. This is the abridged version of a presentation I will make at an international conference later in the month. For the full blurb: https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/conference/cast-2025/cast2025_schedule/

Things to bring: Bring your thinking caps and give me feedback. I want your feedback. This is a dry run to get feedback. Feedback, please.

• Scott Two! (gesundheit)

Title: vim: Why you should use it and why you shouldn’t.

Blurb: Scott, a 30-year vim veteran, will explain why he thinks that, in 2025, vim is an editor worthy of your consideration. He will describe the perils that have befallen prior generations of proprietary editors. He will tell you how vim can make you more productive. He will help you get a very basic vim setup on your development machine so that you can begin to learn vim motions and enjoy frictionless editing experience that vim provides.

• Scott Three?

Bring:

1. Your machine (Linux preferred)
2. Your questions and curiosity.
3. Perhaps your own show and tell! Especially if your name is "Scott."

Value for value:

• Pay what we ask: $16 https://paypal.me/sfs303/16
• Or, pay what you choose: [pwyc@sofree.us](mailto:pwyc@sofree.us)

This is an in-person event at Jeff and Kristina's house in Longmont.

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Doors open at 8:30am.