CR Secret Santa 2015

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Mat's Mug

room topic changed to Secret santa 2015: Room for preparation to the 2nd monitor secret santa 2015 [fun] [group-hug] [ho-ho-ho] [thanks-santa]

Ethan Bierlein

oh yes

I'd better find some cash real soon

TopinFrassi

It's damn long to invite everyone in the room. Isn't there a faster way than to go in the profile?

Mat's Mug

@TopinFrassi not really

Ethan Bierlein

Is there a list of people to add to the "can talk list"? I can help

TopinFrassi

15:54

@Mat'sMug Well I'll do it that way then :p

@EthanBierlein It's alright :) I'm halfway done

Ethan Bierlein

Ah, cool

Jeroen Vannevel

qué es eso?

Ethan Bierlein

What is what?

TopinFrassi

We want to do a Secret Santa with regular from the second monitor!

Ethan Bierlein

Sure

TopinFrassi

15:57

I'll post more informations soon. I need to finish invites

Mat's Mug

@TopinFrassi why not just post a link in The 2nd Monitor?

TopinFrassi

That's a better idea. :p

rolfl

Hi. ;-)

Ethan Bierlein

Hello :D

Dan Pantry

Great success

Zak

16:03

Now all we need is to get Bill Gates secretly involved...

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TopinFrassi

1st star :D

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Ethan Bierlein

for all we know one of us regulars could be bill gates in disguise

we will never know

Dan Pantry

all aboard the star train

Ethan Bierlein

toot toot!

TopinFrassi

I'll create an email address where we can send our emails to create the secret santa pick. Sadly, I don't have access to gmail at work, because they're weird. So I'll do it tonight!

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Mat's Mug

16:04

I'm not sure about this being "regulars-only" and all... the room is visible to anyone that seeks it

Zak

sure, but people have to be given write-access

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug It's a "gallery room". Not anyone can write in here

Zak

Now, let's see how long we can keep the star train up for :)

Dan Pantry

Anyone can see the destination email

TopinFrassi

But yeah, people will be able to see it

Dan Pantry

16:05

Need some way of verifying users are who they say they are.

Y'all are gonna run out of stars.

Mat's Mug

but everyone without write access can feel "not part of the club" and somewhat excluded from a sub-community, which is the part I'm not sure I like

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geez the stars

Zak

Ethan Bierlein

how about anyone from Code Review who wants to participate is allowed?

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug Hmm yeah.. Well for a first point, if someone doesn't have write access at the moment they can ping us.

@EthanBierlein It's a large community. It's hard to tell if everyone would send their gifts.

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi I think the idea is that it creates an us and them mentality

Ethan Bierlein

16:06

@TopinFrassi Fair enough.

Mat's Mug

@DanPantry that

Dan Pantry

And I agree that makes me feel uneasy too, @Mat'sMug

I would like to see a site-wide secret asanta

skiwi

secret

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry Yeah I understand.

Mat's Mug

seekrit-santa

TopinFrassi

16:07

@DanPantry It would be cool. But we need to accept that we might not receive something

Mast

Ho-Ho-Ho!

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi We're on the internet, I think that is a reasonable compromise.

Mat's Mug

@TopinFrassi shipping will cost more than the actual gift haha

TopinFrassi

Alright, let's make that public

Mat's Mug

@TopinFrassi how is that different from SE swag? :D

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TopinFrassi

16:08

@Mat'sMug If you get someone that lives overboard, offer an eBook :p Or order something in their country ahah

@Mat'sMug Touché

Dan Pantry

You don't have to send something physical, like you asid @TopinFrassi it can be an ebook

TopinFrassi

room mode changed to Public: anyone may enter and talk

Dan Pantry

I think this should go on the meta

ALso, lol @ group-hug

Ethan Bierlein

@DanPantry It should

Mast

@DanPantry We talked about that in The 2nd already

Did we decide on a Master Looter yet?

TopinFrassi

16:09

@Mast Yeah but change of plans, we'll make it CR wide so no one feels left out

Ethan Bierlein

Still, an official meta would be nice.

TopinFrassi

@Mast I feel like I'll have that responsability :p

Dan Pantry

I think @EBrown said he could if we wanted because he can't participate

Mast

@TopinFrassi So if we drop e-mails here you'll confirm you got them?

We'll remove them after the confirmation so we don't make it too easy on the spambots, I think.

Dan Pantry

@EthanBierlein Other sites might follow the lead, who knows :-) (and it would add to our reputation as nicest SE)

TopinFrassi

16:10

@Mast I'll create an email address for this, and people will send their emails there. So we don't expose information here

Ethan Bierlein

@DanPantry That ^^

Mast

@DanPantry The Master Looter can still participate. It's all anonymous.

Dan Pantry

@Mast Ah, right

Mat's Mug

that's all nice, but how are shipping addresses going to be handled?

Mast

Holy Starwall...

Dan Pantry

16:11

@Mat'sMug Anonymised through a site

Ethan Bierlein

@Mat'sMug Google form?

Yeah, we really need a meta to organize all this info

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug The website we use for this already thought about that

Ethan Bierlein

It's going to be hard, and annoying to dig through hundreds of messages just to find a needed chunk of info

Mast

@EthanBierlein We can pin stuff to help.

Dan Pantry

@Mast or we could star th- oh, wait

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Mast

16:12

Once Topin has an e-mail set-up we'll pin that so everyone can sign up.

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TopinFrassi

Before creating the meta post, we'd need an email address. Like.. [email protected] But I can't create it because they're blocking email websites at work.. lol.

Dan Pantry

I can create an e-mail address on my domain?

it'll be @lambdaexpression.io

TopinFrassi

Yeah that'd work

Dan Pantry

but it'll mean I'll have to be the master looter or give topin the p/w somehow.

And I have no idea how this master looter stuff works

TopinFrassi

I'd send you my email address and you could send me the password there (lol, security first eh :p)

Dan Pantry

16:13

@TopinFrassi nailed it, but okay lol

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry It's just to get a list of email addresses and remind people to participate if they want to

Zak

I have a suggestion:

TopinFrassi

I can take care of that

Zak

Realistically, people will need to provide their email and mailing address

To avoid fake people, we can't haveopen sign ups through a site

so we need a nominated user to receive all of our emails/addresses and sign them up for us

So, who do we trust?

Dan Pantry

@Zak That's what @TopinFrassi is doing unless I am mistaken

rolfl

16:15

Jsut FYI, everyone with a git account has a public e-mail....

Dan Pantry

@rolfl github* but yes this is true

rolfl

You can see my e-mail on any commit.....

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi [email protected]

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TopinFrassi

I'll take care of entering the email address :) And for the physical addresses, the website we'll use allows anonymous chat between gifter and gifted

@DanPantry perfect!

@rolfl I don't get where you're going with this information :p

Zak

@TopinFrassi well, that solves that problem :)

Dan Pantry

16:17

@TopinFrassi We can get known people's emails from GH accounts instead of relying on anonymous mail

So you can ask in meta for someone's GH.

Ethan Bierlein

bbl

Zak

you can just have the email I use for sites that might spam me :)

That is, after all, precisely what it is there for

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry Aaahhh alright!

Dan Pantry

pff, you think we might spam you

we will spam you. just kidding, of course

Zak

Actual SPAM would be a perfectly acceptable gift :)

Well, not really, but I wouldn't mind it :p

TopinFrassi

16:19

What should be the gift price's maximum? 10-15$?

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi that sounds perfectly reasonable

works out to be about £10

TopinFrassi

Yeah! And 200$ Canadian dollars. :p

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi throw me an email from your accoutn so I can give ou the password for top kek security

I leave work in a few so

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry I'll take my spam account lol. So if a bot crawls here I won't loose too much

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi no, I mean

email me on the email I gave you

TopinFrassi

16:22

@DanPantry Oh yeah, much more logic lol

Malachi

I don't have a job as of right now...I am going to opt out for the time being guys. thank you for including me though

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry Done!

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi Replied

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry I received!

TopinFrassi

16:35

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Q: Code Review's Secret Santa 2015

To celebrate our first graduated Christmas (and because we feel like it), some members of the 2nd monitor thought it would be a good idea to make a Secret Santa between members of Code Review! The rules are quite simple : You will send an email to [email protected] to register....

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David

WOW, you all like stars.

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Dan Pantry

@David c:

TopinFrassi

@David I don't see what you're talking about

David

@TopinFrassi start around here

Dan Pantry

@David He is being sarcastic :)

David

16:38

nc!

what is this room normally for?

Mat's Mug

it was created for this

Dan Pantry

It isn't

Mat's Mug

don't look at me, I have nothing to do with this

Dan Pantry

The usual chat room for codereview is the 2nd monitor but not everyone is feeling the christmas cheer in there ;-)

David

ok then sounds just like my home site's room.

Mat's Mug

16:39

Blender is star-happy too? :D

David

@DanPantry except our main room is like this one. :)

@Mat'sMug some what, but more on the lunatic side.

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug I guess you could say with such a blend of personalities you get star happy rooms

David

@DanPantry lol

Dan Pantry

~~I use puns to cover up my crippling insecurities ayyyyy~~

David

you all should come over some time, would fit in quite well. :)

The Renderfarm

A place to talk while we wait for our renders to finish. Site ...

Dan Pantry

16:41

Unfortunately, I stopped doing blender a long while ago. I tried making models for GunZ, it was too hard, gave up.

David

@DanPantry when was "a long while ago"?

Dan Pantry

@David 6 years ago, maybe

David

@DanPantry WOW, ouch. You need to pick up blender again, you would not even know it is the same piece of software.

so much vastly better.

Mat's Mug

"while we wait for our renders to finish" haha yeah, right ;-)

Dan Pantry

Can't wait for renders to finish, our code-is-compiling

David

16:44

@DanPantry good one.

bye all.

Dan Pantry

bb :)

Mat's Mug

16:56

anytime!

TopinFrassi

17:07

@Mat'sMug If we're odd ehm... We could award that odd person a bounty on-site? I don't really know. There aren't lots of options.

Oh, or use Simon's answer. Which is in fact, pretty much full of sense. lol

Mat's Mug

17:26

the draw happens after the registration ends, right?

Mast

@Mat'sMug Yes.

@TopinFrassi An odd number is not a problem whatsoever.

@TopinFrassi Send you an e-mail. Let me know if I you need help with anything.

TopinFrassi

17:43

@Mast Yeah that's what I understood afterwards ahah

@Mast Cool thansk

Mast

TopinFrassi

Does that mean that the person that initiates the drawing knows everyone's matching?

If so, it should be someone that doesn't participate that does it!

Mast

@TopinFrassi I'll test that to make sure. Let me get myself a couple of e-mail addresses for the occasion.

Mat's Mug

@Mast isn't that awesome. names get picked from a hat!!

TopinFrassi

@Mast Good!

Mast

17:49

@Mat'sMug Don't tell @rolfl, he'll run off with it.

:P

X-27

Uhh! is this what chatrooms for sites with their own theme look like?

it is all, white, and bland!

GiantCowFilms

@Mat'sMug Turns out when we are actually rendering, our computers are too overloaded to type, so it is really yah right.

Dan Pantry

@X-27 its what our theme looks like. :c

X-27

@DanPantry bummer

beta sites look beter......

Dan Pantry

shoo *waves hands*

X-27

17:58

is that a hint for, scram!

?

um... what is this room for?

Dan Pantry

Code review's secret santa

Mat's Mug

It's a seekrit =)

X-27

well, I'm not on that site, have you done that event before?

(the name has 2015 at the end)

Mat's Mug

Nope, it's a first. Like some post-graduation party

X-27

Ahh

awesome

Mat's Mug

18:01

..that might become recurring

X-27

Blender.SE is graduating soon, we probably won't do anything quite so exciting.....

correction - it already graduated, but the redesign hasn't happened yet, and the privileges haven't been taken yet.

so we get to keep the nice beta theme for now.....

TopinFrassi

@X-27 Beta site isn't nice. :p

Dan Pantry

@X-27 boy, that situation sounds familiar.

TopinFrassi

@X-27 It took us a while to get the design, it happened last week! But yeah, we're trying the secret santa. :p

Mat's Mug

@X-27 you haven't been beta for long enough if you find it a nice theme! haha

Dan Pantry

18:04

How long were we on beta for? at least a year

X-27

LoL

let me check....

Mat's Mug

Congrats for graduating BTW

Dan Pantry

And I say beta, I mean "graduate-but-not-graduated-yet"

X-27

blender.SE started in 2013

we just graduated a few months ago.

Mat's Mug

We had our grad announced Sept.2014

X-27

18:06

lol, so you were in the "graduated but not graduated" state for a long time!

Dan Pantry

According to the SE admins it was only 6-8 weeks.

:P

TopinFrassi

@X-27 To a point we didn't believe we wouldn't ever graduate :p

Dan Pantry

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Mat's Mug

We were just about to riot, and then a SE designer popped into our chatroom

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Dan Pantry

replace thanksgiving with graduation

Mast

18:07

I guess that's what is necessary to summon the powers that be.

X-27

@Mat'sMug lol

I'd be rioting now with your new theme....

Dan Pantry

The main theme is nice

Mat's Mug

Seen the actual site?

TopinFrassi

@X-27 The site's pretty

X-27

@Mat'sMug Yah!

Mat's Mug

18:11

I like it. Sober, simple, modern.

And looks great on a tee as well!

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug Or on a duck

Mat's Mug

Or on a duck

Mast

@TopinFrassi So far it doesn't look like the organizer can see who pulled who. Don't forget to change the wishlist to private though, otherwise everybody can see everybodies and that's probably not the idea.

Mat's Mug

What's a wishlist?

TopinFrassi

@Mast Alright!

Mast

18:38

@Mat'sMug A list with gift suggestions you can hand-in.

Mat's Mug

ah, of course

I want an xbox one

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welcome to ~~Stack~~ Gift Exchange

Hosch250

I bet everyone will just send everyone else their favorite programming book.

Mat's Mug

that's a nice idea

I mean, order from Amazon and have them ship it with "super duper free shipping"

TopinFrassi

18:59

@Hosch250 That's pretty cool in fact :p

Mat's Mug

when we get assigned a "target", do we know who the CR user is?

Mast

The trick with shipping costs is to order near the receiver instead of near the sender.

@Mat'sMug You know a name. So, yea.

You don't know the e-mail, you know the name.

And since we collect all CR names, it should work.

Mat's Mug

hmm could we know the CR profile link instead?

names aren't unique

and they can change

Mast

@Mat'sMug Good catch!

@TopinFrassi When someone sends his name and the name isn't unique, we need their number.

Joe Wallis

@Mat'sMug I thought we were doing that? "Please include a link to your Code Review's profile in the subject of the message!"

Hosch250

19:03

How about just the number?

Mat's Mug

^

Hosch250

If we are interested, we can find the name by the number.

Mast

@Hosch250 Since you can look it up anyway, yea.

TopinFrassi

@Mast Alright, I'll take the profile number from the link's they'll send by email! :)

Hosch250

Second Normal Form for DB's.

Mat's Mug

19:05

The only user I'll recognize by number if I pick, is 22222

TopinFrassi

Who's that? `^

:p*

Joe Wallis

Jamal?

Mat's Mug

yeah

quite easy to remember

Mast

lol

Indeed.

TopinFrassi

I hope we'll have some participation! Like... more than 4 haha

Mast

19:07

Is that how many you got so far?

TopinFrassi

No. Right now I got you, Dan and me :p But I feel like people will register at the last moment

People always register at the last moment. :p

Mat's Mug

Well there are 10 votes on the meta, so yeah expect more than 3-4

Although, it doesn't really matter what the participation is

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug Yeah I'm sure we'll have more than that! The meta post was created just today :p

@Mat'sMug No it doesn't. But it would be fun if we were a couple to participate! :)

Joe Wallis

Huh... I registered... D:

TopinFrassi

@JoeWallis I got you too now :p I'm not notified when a new email comes in. So I'll check from times to times and remember people to register!

Mat's Mug

20:06

about the "sad world we live in" - perhaps keep note of who's assigned to who, so that if a "target" doesn't get their gift they can email you and you can mark that non-sender as a "naughty kid" for next year? Naughty kids don't get gifts...

Protino

20:26

Who knows the secret santa?

Mat's Mug

@Protino only the person hitting the buton to "pick names in the hat" does, I think.

TanMath

what is this place for?!

Zak

@TanMath The Code Review Secret Santa 2015, obviously :)

TanMath

@Zak cool!

Mat's Mug

room topic changed to CR Secret Santa 2015: Room for preparation to the Code Review Secret Santa 2015 event [fun] [group-hug] [ho-ho-ho] [thanks-santa]

TopinFrassi

21:01

@Mat'sMug From what Mast checked, the list is anonymous. But I'm pretty sure we could figure something.

But we'd need something to filter them out

Ethan Bierlein

21:30

I'm still debating whether I want to do this or not.

I'm not sure how comfortable I am having my physical home address out there.

Mast

@EthanBierlein Don't worry, I won't send you anthrax.

Ethan Bierlein

lol, that's comforting

Mast

Only nice gifts.

@EthanBierlein Only to the person who did draw you. Nobody else.

Mat's Mug

@EthanBierlein same here, but I ended up doing it. Apart from @TopinFrassi, nobody can actually realistically come to my place anyway :)

rolfl

21:47

OK.... with all these not-so-secret santa's, who's the grinch?

Mat's Mug

we need a grinch?

Mast

@rolfl Fedex.

Mast

22:12

Example:

Mat's Mug

22:23

should I be expecting an email reply?

Mast

@Mat'sMug I didn't get one. Do you want one?

Mat's Mug

some acknowlegement or indication that my user ID has been entered, yes :)

Mast

@Mat'sMug @TopinFrassi Request for confirmations to be send out.

rolfl

23:17

My secret receipient will be getting "Java Performance Tuning", and a lump of coal.

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Quill

23:42

I thought a monkey 2016 calendar would be more appropriate :P

TopinFrassi

@Mast I'll send confirmations :)

@EthanBierlein Only your secret santa will know it! :)

Quill

Usually there's a Rep requirement on these things (200)

TopinFrassi

I've sent confirmations!

The Renderfarm

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CR Secret Santa 2015