Bonnie Aumann on 10 Jun 2010 12:13:12 -0700


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Re: Meeting Format Feedback

Trotter's described my ideal event. It even incorporates the ideas that others have presented about hands-on work, should the evening's speaker prefer that format. An hour, hour and a half, then drinks and discourse would rock. 

Also, definitely yes for lightning talks. 
Some that I could do:
- How to draw a burn down chart and what they tell you. 
- Asking for feedback
- Theory of Constraints, a brief demo.
What talks could other people do?


Cheers, 

Bonnie

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Trotter Cashion <cashion@gmail.com> wrote:
I like the idea about the Euler problem. Also, I don't think there's any need to fill a two and a half hour block. Let's instead do one hour talks, a few lightening talks if anyone is interested, and then go drink some beers and talk nerd.

As far as talk topics go, I feel like Aaron's been doing a pretty good job of finding good speakers to talk about interesting things. So... yea, keep that up :-)

- Trotter


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Nicholas Canzoneri <ac3522@gmail.com> wrote:
2 presentations per meeting would be a bit much.

I like the idea of lightning talks or maybe a 10-15 min ad hoc
discussion on some current topic. I'd also be up for the exercise idea
that Matt suggested. Maybe just send a project euler problem to the
list a week or two before the meeting and anyone who wants to can
present their solution.

--Nick Canzoneri

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 22:59, Toby DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Aaron Feng <aaron.feng@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.
>
> Or we could just block less time?
>
>> * 2 presentations for each meeting
>
> -100000000000
>
>> * Hands on workshop (ex, how to get clojure going with emacs...etc..) after
>> the presentation
>
> +1
>
>> * Lightning talks (each person gets like 5 - 10 minutes)
>
> +1
>
>> * Meet more often, maybe twice a month
>
> -1
>
> --
> Toby DiPasquale
>