Meeting: Oct 4, Pasadena
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:45 pm
The SoCal LiveCode User Group's next meeting will be Thursday, October 4, at 7PM in Pasadena.
A scheduling conflict made the September meeting impractical, and after discussing this with Bill Vlahos we feel that bi-monthly is an easier schedule for us to maintain.
So going forward we'll be meeting on the first Thursday of each even-numbered month, with the next meeting in October, the one after that December, then February, etc.
We may continue to hold the meeting at Burger Continental if the members want to, but we're also open to considering a different venue with larger tables that more easily accommodate all of our laptops.
We'd like your input on the venue question, and on the question of format:
Thus far these meetings have been fairly informal, sometimes with presentations and other times just answering questions and tracing out code, with a lot of good conversation about non-LiveCode stuff along the way.
That's all been good fun, but I'd like to hear your ideas about ways to make these meetings a more valuable part of your LiveCode development world.
So let's take this opportunity between now and October to share what we'd most like to get out of these meetings.
Feel free to raise any and all opinions you may have. This group is about you, and the only way to get what you most want from it is to voice it.
I'll kick this off by noting that for myself, the best moment we've had yet was the brainstorming session at the February meeting which prompted me to write the first draft of the ripData library. That was a great roll-up-your-sleeves moment, in which we all kicked around ideas useful to ourselves and others in the community, and resulting in a code library that promises to be pretty helpful. I really enjoy that sort of real-world problem-solving.
What do you enjoy most about the meetings? What would you like to see more of going forward?
I look forward to a good conversation here leading up to a great meeting in October.
Thanks in advance for your participation -
A scheduling conflict made the September meeting impractical, and after discussing this with Bill Vlahos we feel that bi-monthly is an easier schedule for us to maintain.
So going forward we'll be meeting on the first Thursday of each even-numbered month, with the next meeting in October, the one after that December, then February, etc.
We may continue to hold the meeting at Burger Continental if the members want to, but we're also open to considering a different venue with larger tables that more easily accommodate all of our laptops.
We'd like your input on the venue question, and on the question of format:
Thus far these meetings have been fairly informal, sometimes with presentations and other times just answering questions and tracing out code, with a lot of good conversation about non-LiveCode stuff along the way.
That's all been good fun, but I'd like to hear your ideas about ways to make these meetings a more valuable part of your LiveCode development world.
So let's take this opportunity between now and October to share what we'd most like to get out of these meetings.
Feel free to raise any and all opinions you may have. This group is about you, and the only way to get what you most want from it is to voice it.
I'll kick this off by noting that for myself, the best moment we've had yet was the brainstorming session at the February meeting which prompted me to write the first draft of the ripData library. That was a great roll-up-your-sleeves moment, in which we all kicked around ideas useful to ourselves and others in the community, and resulting in a code library that promises to be pretty helpful. I really enjoy that sort of real-world problem-solving.
What do you enjoy most about the meetings? What would you like to see more of going forward?
I look forward to a good conversation here leading up to a great meeting in October.
Thanks in advance for your participation -
