On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Kapil Kaisare <kksm19820...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, all. > > I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later > on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the monthly meetings of PLUG; I > was wondering how many attendees are programmers, and/or how many would be > interested in such presentations?
This is something that I have to deal with in Bangalore. We have separate communities for Java, Python, Ruby, OpenSolaris, .NET and Linux. Some of these communities have common members (like myself). There are very few people who are programmers as well as sysadmins/interested in how Linux-like systems work (e.g. apt-get issues, etc). We recently experimented by hosting an Android presentation at the ilug-bengaluru meet a few weekend ago. After the meet, we discovered that there were a very few of us who were able to understand the programmer level nuances of that presentation. Most did enjoy the "system" bit of it. So one lesson that I have learned is to keep language focussed discussions separate from non-language technology discussions. There is other communities in Pune who enjoy discussing programming language related topics. Some of my colleagues at Thoughtworks Pune host language specific meets. There was a recent Ruby meetup at Thoughtworks Pune, and there are enthusiasts on other programming languages and related matters (such as funcitonal programming, test driven development, etc) who often meet there. You may want to link up with them. > > Kaisare, Kapil Sadashiv > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ ] Urgent [ ] Important [*] FYI > [ ] Official [ ] Work-related [*] Personal > [ ] Reply [*] As you please [ ] Ignore > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List > _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List