I'd like to announce a new channel: #CJT25RWKE. Until I moved away from SF last year, I was an organizing part of a monthly meetup to discuss the future of coding. At the time, I thought about creating a long weekend or week long get-away for the group + others (say 30 people). But in the end, I was afraid a week wouldn't be enough time to do enough development to flesh out ideas. And then it would wind up being a seven-day version of our the discussion meetings, where we would debate based on what we already have found, rather than what we are currently finding. That led me to another idea: what if it was a year? What if the location was far away from everything else -- a sort of Manhattan Project for the Future of Coding? 30 people, more or less, working on maybe 20-40 ideas. Researchers would have full ownership of their work. Milestones not deadlines. No specific targets. Vision not goals. Weekly reviews of progress and critical peer sessions (ala PARC). Baseball, not golf (to quote Alan Kay).

Would there be funding, or are we talking about volunteering a year?

Yeah, I'd happily spend a year full time as part of a "research center" on this kind of work, but somebody needs to fund it 🤷

I asked the same question in #CJT25RWKE . I suggest we transition the discussion over there.

Hey @David I moved recently to San Francisco, can you share the name/link of the meetup you co-organized. Thanks!

It's called 2020 and here's the link (although the name isn't mentioned there) https://www.meetup.com/Future-of-Programming