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Dear Tom

 

I first cast eyes on you at the Erlang User Conference in 2009 in Stockholm. I though to myself anyone who calls a protocol BERT has to be a good egg.

 

So here I find myself writing you a begging letter.

 

You see I find myself organising the Turing Festival which takes place in Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Festival:

http://www.turingfestival.com/

 

Turing has a closed, curated conference and an open, anything goes, Fringe.

 

This year, the Turing Centenary Year, we really want to make it the bestest ever. One of the ways we are doing that is to team up with the acclaimed technology comedy writer Verity Stob:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/stob/

 

La Stob is writing a show for us (yup, songs, sketches, comedy, the full 9 yards) which an  assorted bunch of misfits, losers and high-functioning autists are going head-to-head with the finest artists and comedy performers at the world's biggest arts festival (think the Dirty Dozen's asthmatic cousins).

 

A show is just a series of structured text files under continuous and managed revision, so naturally we turned to GitHub as the tool-de-jour for managing such an endeavour. This, needless to say, is where you come in:

https://github.com/hypernumbers/Waiting-For-Stobbo

 

We need to keep the content under wraps until the show, naturellement.

 

But I look at the long list of people we will need for this show (performers, dolly grips, key grips, underluggers, overhuggers and all the rest) then I look at my little GitHub account for my startup and miniscule resources, and then my bank manager starts weeping quietly, slow reproachful sobs.

 

So, gonnae sponsor the show? gonnae give us a free enterprise account so we can deliver our best?

 

I know a man who names a protocol BERT is not going to let me down.

 

Gordon