Melbourne Node Night over but still meeting as a polyglot group - 'polyhack'

[Nicholas Faiz]

Hi,

Just to let Melbournians know that we've decided to end Node Night but still run a user group under another name - 'polyhack'. If you attended the previous night you are welcome to this one (first one sceduled for the 23rd of August at Inspire9).

We made the change for the following reasons:

* we have always intended to be a hack group, not a presentation focussed group. We felt that the meetup page obscured this. There was some confusion from newcomers wanting the presentation format.

* a lot of us want to discuss ideas about other programming languages and techniques, under a polyglot heading. So Node will still be very important, but if you're working on clojure/scala/go/whatever or want to discuss logging frameworks, etc., we want the group to service that.

* Node has some presence in Melbourne (and is growing) but it isn't as large as Ruby or Java, etc. at the moment. And running a typical language focussed, presentation format user group to keep newcomers happy was a bit hard for the core membership.

We're deliberately not creating a meetup.com page for this (which goes back to point 2). We just want to have a fun hack group where people can show each other code, explain ideas, and occasionally present if they like.

So come along to the first Polyhack at 6:30 pm at Inspire9 on the 23rd if you're interested. I'll be presenting on *something* (unsure if it'll be a Node.js topic or a Clojure one). Mark Wolfe is hopefully presenting too. Otherwise it's just messing about with code then going to The Corner afterwards at 8 pm.

Cheers,

Nicholas

[Nicholas Faiz]

s/sceduled/scheduled (this will teach me to make google posts at 7:15 am in the morning).

Also, we're sitting in #polyhack on freenode now.

[Conrad Pankoff]

You say that now...

[Devgeeks]

This sounds great, Nicholas.

Good work.

On Monday, August 6, 2012 7:29:23 AM UTC+10, Nicholas Faiz wrote: