Yay top posting!
At my functional programming group we watched a video from Erlang Factory about
Haskell and I think it went alright since we didn't have a local resource who
wanted to do a presentation about Haskell.
One other thing we tried last month was "office hours" where people who self-id
as "mentors" put their names on a whiteboard along with their area of expertise
and then others who come can ask questions about that subject from the mentor.
I think that worked *really* well. Plenty of time for networking and the
opportunity to ask questions about side-projects or just learning new stuff you
didn't really understand previously.
So there's a couple of ideas.
Thanks.
Mark
On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:29 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston <houston@pm.org>
wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:39:39 -0400
Todd Rinaldo via Houston <houston@pm.org> wrote:
> I have a partially formed idea I've been tossing around. There is a
> ton of content online from past and present YAPCs now. Not to mention
> other conferences. Often this content is coming from the author of the
> feature / method being discussed. I was wondering if we could somehow
> integrate that into a meeting with discussion.
>
> The format might be:
> 1. We vote up and watch a list of videos people like (possibly clipped
> to the good parts)
> 2. Discussion / Q&A of content.
>
> I get that I and others could do this on our own. So I'm hesitant to
> say there's value. I thought I'd throw it out to the list and see if
> anyone's had any thoughts based on the idea.
[Drat, I didn't reply all on this one.]
I can see this as a start to a discussion in the group. On the other
hand, would everyone really want to sit as a group to watch a video of
someone presenting somewhere else?
Any real opinions?
G. Wade
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston
> <houston@pm.org> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > It's about 3 weeks to the next Houston.pm meeting on July 10 at
> > cPanel.
> >
> > Does anyone have a topic they would like to present?
> >
> > Is there any kind of topic you guys would like to hear about?
> >
> > * Perl beginner
> > - we've had a couple of these lately
> > - ?
> > * Perl advanced
> > - ?
> > * General programming
> > - ?
> > * Open Source projects we should know about
> > - ?
> > * Tools/environment
> > - we haven't had editor presentations in a while
> > - ?
> > * Security
> > - ?
> > * Hardware
> > - doing anything cool with hardware and Perl?
> > - ?
> > * Something unrelated to Perl, but still of interest to the group
> > - Mind hacks
> > - Making
> > - ?
> >
> > Remember the quality of meetings is under your control.
> > G. Wade
> > --
> > It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter
> > how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
> > -- Richard Feynman
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>
>
>
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