First Meeting Notes, Talks, Locations

[Keith Fahlgren]

Hi all,

Thanks to the twenty-odd (7?) folks that were able to join us at
Amici's Pizza last night. Both Mike and I were pleased at the turnout
and enthusiasm. It seems like we had a fairly even mix of Erlang,
Ocaml, and Haskell programmers, with a pair of Scala enthusiasts
thrown in for spice.

The next meeting will be October 11th at 7:30pm in XXXX, CA. Some
folks asked for a calendar feed last night. Here you go:
XML:
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
ICAL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40group.calendar.google.com

If you offered a place to hold a meeting with a presentation, please
email me directly with the location and the number you could hold.

Here's the current list of talk proposals:
Todd ? on A Short Haskell Talk
Warren Harris on Liveops Scheduling App
Bryan O'Sullivan on Mad Protocol Craziness
Alex Jacobson on HApps
David Pollak on lift
Jake Donham on Ocamljs

[Todd: need your last name]

Please vote on which you'd like to hear in October here:
http://bayfp.wufoo.com/forms/oct-11-meeting-talk/

If you're not listed above, please let me know what you'd like to talk
about and I'll add you [this means you, UCSF nucleotide dude whose
name I didn't catch].

Thanks,
Keith

[Peter Burns]

I'd love to attend these meetings, but I have classes on Tuesday/
Thursday evenings. Would it be possible to meet on a Wednesday or
Monday evening, or perhaps on a weekend?

If the next talk is on HApps though, I might just have to miss
class...

Thanks,
Peter

[Raoul Duke]

$0.00002 - Dunno about the group in detail, but it seems big enough #s
that no evening will fit everybody's schedules. :-) I've got stuff on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, for example. Dunno if that means it would be
worth having a roving day, but i'd guess that would only make it
worse. having it on the same day (including tue or wed nights) means
people can more easily make a decision about which event wins ahead of
time? dunno if folks could would podcast the events for whatever it
might be worth to folks who can't make it?

[Marshall Beddoe]

It would be great if someone could videotape the talks and put them online.

[Peter Burns]

I could do that actually, I have a camcorder that outputs divx files.  Of course, I can't make Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

I'm not suggesting changing the meeting time permanently.  Just varying the day of the week so that people who can't make it at one time could at least come to some of them.

How do other user groups handle this?

[Evan Klitzke]

On 9/14/07, Keith Fahlgren <abde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The next meeting will be October 11th at 7:30pm in XXXX, CA. Some
> folks asked for a calendar feed last night. Here you go:
> XML:
> http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
> ICAL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
> HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40group.calendar.google.com

I just realized that the second Thursday of each month is the exact
same schedule as baypiggies (the Bay Area Python interest group).
After next month's meeting, is there a possibility of moving the
meetings forward/back a week?

--
Evan Klitzke <ev...@yelp.com>

[Keith Fahlgren]

OK, there's clearly enough discussion to warrant another survey:

http://bayfp.wufoo.com/forms/meeting-times/

Please vote above to give us a sense of when the majority to members
would like to meet.

Thanks,
Keith

[Todd Rockhold]

On 9/14/07, Keith Fahlgren <abde...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's the current list of talk proposals:
Todd ? on A Short Haskell Talk
Warren Harris on Liveops Scheduling App
Bryan O'Sullivan on Mad Protocol Craziness
Alex Jacobson on HApps
David Pollak on lift
Jake Donham on Ocamljs

[Todd: need your last name]

Todd Rockhold. 

Please vote on which you'd like to hear in October here:
http://bayfp.wufoo.com/forms/oct-11-meeting-talk/

If you're not listed above, please let me know what you'd like to talk
about and I'll add you [this means you, UCSF nucleotide dude whose
name I didn't catch].

I second the motion on trying to convince the  UCSF dude [sorry, I missed the name, too] to spill it about what he's up to.

Thanks,
Keith

[Nick Mudge]

His name is Nick Ingolia.

On Sep 14, 10:51 am, "Keith Fahlgren" <abdela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to the twenty-odd (7?) folks that were able to join us at
> Amici's Pizza last night. Both Mike and I were pleased at the turnout
> and enthusiasm. It seems like we had a fairly even mix of Erlang,
> Ocaml, and Haskell programmers, with a pair of Scala enthusiasts
> thrown in for spice.
>
> The next meeting will be October 11th at 7:30pm in XXXX, CA. Some
> folks asked for a calendar feed last night. Here you go:

> XML:http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40gro...
> ICAL:http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%40grou...
> HTML:http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=b1gahe51v6tdt1jm360esmjbsg%4...

[Keith Fahlgren]

On 9/15/07, Nick Mudge <mud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> His name is Nick Ingolia.

Yep. He very graciously offered to give a talk, so he's now on the
list for voting.

Thanks,
Keith