Pluggers (Steve Meyers, this especially means you), I was looking at the Lambda Lounge Utah group *shakes jokingly angry fist at Levi* and reading about Office Hours style meetups. I think it would be a good thing for PLUG to try in a few cases. For instance, my last presentation topic was (unbeknownst to me when I picked it) far more than a presentation should chew, and I think people would have got more out of it if they could talk about what they WANTED to learn instead of being told X by me (trying to lead people through a lot of boilerplate unsuccessfully).
Here's the blog post about it: http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours Thoughts? Personally I'm willing to go to an off-normal-day meeting to sort of try it if we want to do so without risking our upcoming topic schedule, and I'll help anywhere else I can in organizing such a thing. Maybe a special barbecue meetup on a Saturday or something? Could this play well into something like OpenWest in some tracks or whatnot? (I like using my train-wreck presentation as an example here, I'm sorry if that's boring. I'll pick on Levi or something if it bothers people.) I think my javascript game-dev presentation could either a) have been broken up into several presentations with clear expectations going in and coming out and are just progressive or b) been made into an Office Hours style meetup where people can ask a few of us or me or whatever the specific things they wanted to learn about the subject. If they wanted more discussion of phonegap or game-dev in general, they could have got that. If they wanted to bring in their own game project they were struggling with, or struggling with a concept in, they could have discussed that with someone interested. Feed me! (feedback, specifically) -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
