Re: Meeting Format Feedback

[Mat Schaffer <mat@schaffer.me>]

I tend to miss a lot of Philly lambda meetings, so take this with a
grain of salt, but I'd love some more workshop style sessions. Maybe
even with some prep homework, exercises for the class or something. I
feel like you get so much more out of a meeting when you have some
very concrete before/after goals.

-Mat

On Jun 7, 2010, at 2:35 PM, "Kyle R. Burton" <kyle.burton@gmail.com>
wrote:

>> What do you guys think of the current format of the meetings?  We
>> block 2:30
>> - 3 hours for the meeting, but we rarely use up all the available
>> time.
>>  Here's some ideas I have to fill up rest of the time:
>> * 2 presentations for each meeting
>> * Hands on workshop (ex, how to get clojure going with
>> emacs...etc..) after
>> the presentation
>> * Lightning talks (each person gets like 5 - 10 minutes)
>> * Meet more often, maybe twice a month
>> Of course, we don't have to pick a particular option, we can mix it
>> up.
>>  Just wondering what you guys think about it.
>
> I'm surprised no one has piped up yet...what do you (each
> individually) want from the group?
>
> I'd love to see some of the format mixed up.  I think 2 presentations
> in one evening might be a bit of a stretch - it's nice to head out and
> socialize after a talk.  There are two ways I can think of doing this
> - two or three in conjunction with a regular presentation, or 5 to 6
> of them as the whole meeting.  Could pick a theme, something like your
> favorite X: data structure, clojure library, scala library, testing
> framework, etc.
>
> I'd love to see what we'd come up with as a set of lightning talks - I
> know there is a wide variety of experience within the group I'm sure
> there are lots of interesting tools, libraries, etc that people could
> share in ten minutes or so.
>
> That the group now has a webpage is great.  Do we only have 2 meetings
> planned?  What does the calendar look like for the next 12 months out?
> I know Aaron has worked hard at getting speakers from outside the
> group in the past - is that why only 2 months out is listed at this
> point?
>
> As for the call for presentations from the existing members - what
> would everyone like to hear about?
>
>
> Kyle