-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Shawn,
I would endorse this and may even participate, time permitting. I would suggest Nexus, this has proven to be a good place for informal/formal discussions. I doubt very much that the folks at Nexus would object. More opportunity for them to sell books and more opportunity for our Tier Two members to take advantage of their discount. I would also suggest topics geared towards us up and coming programmers with no formal training. Something else woulb be how to get involved with FLOSS projects to help further the cause. Why not shoot high? I like your idea of meeting before a general CLUG meeting and reporting back. I would hope that this would be an integral part of this whole idea. This kind of thing is meant to expand CLUG's influence right? Thanks for leading the charge! Jarrod On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:29 pm, Shawn wrote: > After last night's meeting, a few of us were chatting over beer and wings > about getting together to discuss programming in a generalized manner. > More to share knowledge and thoughts about common issues and > methods/routines used in coding. It was then brought up that this would > make a good topic for a special interest group (SIG). > > So, I'm proposing a monthly meeting be held that will be programming > specific, but language agnostic (no preference for any given language). I > know of at least three of us who are interested, and if these three are the > only ones interested, then I'd be willing to host a meeting at my place, or > maybe at my office (will have to check with management first, of course). > If you would be interested, please respond to the list so we all know how > much interest there is. If there is a great deal of interest, then we'll > have to find some place to host the meeting - maybe Nexus if they're > willing? > > I would picture the first few meetings to be very informal, and cover a > number of topics in a general manner. However, as interest grows, I think > we would need to do presentations on a specific topic, then open the floor > for free discussion. Maybe plan on two hour meetings - an hour for the > presentation, and an hour to talk freely about coding. > > Some of the topics that were hinted at last night would be along the lines > of the following: > > 1) Error handling methods - pros and cons > 2) Good database design, maybe for different database platforms > 3) Project Management - how do you properly plan a project, and ensure > you'll meet the milestones and deadlines. > 4) XML, XSLT, and XML DTDs > 5) How to recognize troublesome clients and/or a project going bad, and how > to deal with them. > > As well, I'd like to see presentations on specific languages like Ruby, or > Lisp, and also presentations on specific types of coding - like artificial > intelligence, graphics programming, and common business logic. > > The presentations should try to cover open source topics, or put a > different way "proprietary languages and systems should be avoided if > possible". However, we all work with at least some proprietary software, so > I'd doubt we'd be able to avoid this entirely. > > And finally, I'd like to propose that the SIG meetings be held a week prior > to the monthly CLUG meeting, but not on a Wednesday - maybe a tuesday or > thurday evening? or during the day on the weekend? This way, a quick > summary can be given at the regular CLUG meeting about what's going on with > the SIG, and maybe highlight issues/solutions that were discussed. The > end result would be that EVERYONE in CLUG would benefit - even those who > don't write software. > > So, I'm looking for all who are insterested, and any comments/concerns > about the idea. > > Shawn > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQEguYQCQFPa+bt49AQI5eQQAo4IG8sC8M1ePRXaNNcLD2KySF2xnRyCk pLXdI6qDs8FIX85PXIbspqiDZYZiVO9JaTIaybxiDGc1x+mhco5ZKcuvEPK68RXg JKA8vMaO6BZ9QODuv3gZOwc5cLfgp3yvtSVbPb+any1+kyfLiunlTLtjTqbtcE4F M6JRVm4BAgw= =+60F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
