Michael, I think that because the idea is that these meetings are impromptu, it probably matters who's going to show up for a given meeting, what they want to do, and what kind of problems we look at as to whether Scala is appropriate for the meeting.
I personally wouldn't mind learning some Scala, but I'm afraid the meetings would turn into large chunks of time with people learning Scala rather than solving problems of whatever variety they came to solve, be it whiteboard, implementing some small project, etc. We'd probably have to work this out on a case-by-case basis. I'm open to further thoughts on this, though. -- Nate On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Michael Frank <msfr...@syntaxjockey.com>wrote: > nate, do you envision this being python-specific, or more general? i > *love* the idea of meeting to discuss and work through concrete problems, > but i'm knee-deep in scala nowadays. that said, functional programming > concepts are useful for pythonistas as well... > > -Michael > > > On 9/24/13 2:47 PM, Adam Garcia wrote: > >> Great idea! I'd love to get in on this, but not tonight. >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Nate Sanders <n...@natesanders.com >> <mailto:n...@natesanders.com>> wrote: >> >> There was some mention of people getting together and working on >> code, whiteboarding interview problems (could be code-related or >> data structures/algorithms or system design), etc at the last meeting. >> >> I'm taking some time off from working for a bit (not sure how long) >> and would be interested in getting together in smaller, more focused >> groups if anybody is interested in that. Could be for working on a >> small implementation of something or talking about problem solving, >> etc. I'm not sure of a place where we could get a whiteboard, but >> if the group is small enough, pen and paper could work, too. >> >> One requirement for me, for these particular things, though, is that >> we have some sort of agenda -- again, I don't care if it's problems >> or coding, but I think it should be more focused than our last >> meeting was (this is not a general statement about our previous >> meeting -- no connotation), by comparison. If people want to >> chit-chat afterwards (whenever "afterwards" is) or go get drinks or >> whatever, I think that would be great. >> >> I'm available most of the time these days. I could even do >> today/tonight. >> >> -- Nate >> >> >> >
