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[Martin Paulo]

Hi all

We still need to nail down a time and what we are actually going to be doing!

A brief summary of where we are so far:
Gokul has offered to host us at Aconex, starting on the night of the 14th (thank you!)
Neither Birger nor myself will be able to make it on that night :-(  (in fact, I can't make every other Thursday either. And I can't make Tuesday's either.

Our original idea was to take turns in presenting chapters from the book.
But Andy has proposed that we actually try to use Scala to create stuff, and use the time to work together/learn from each other.
I think Andy's proposal is a great one.

Perhaps we could borrow from Philip Greenspun's comments about his course,

• Students organized themselves into teams of 2 (ideal) or 3 (acceptable) and are connected with a real-world client.
• Lecture time is devoted to teams presenting either designs or prototypes and the other teams criticizing.  This prepares students to participate in engineering design reviews...
• Occasionally we will use the meeting time for teams to work together (sometimes paired with another team) on a data modeling challenge.  This works great in rooms with a lot of blackboards and after 20 minutes we start asking teams to present their work while others criticize and comment.
• Most evaluation is done by the clients (usually non-technical), professional interface designers whom I bring in, and professional software engineers whom I bring in as mentors and critics.  The final presentation and write-up is evaluated by a team of business executives and venture capitalists; students are told to pitch the project as though they were seeking follow-on funding.

I don't think there are enough of us to manage pairing, but I certainly like the presentation/review format. It also allows us leeway if we have to miss the occasional night.

Thoughts?

Martin

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[Gokul Krishnan]

Hi all,

Could everyone please confirm what day's works best for them ?  I am open to any day Mon-thurs  from 6:15 pm.  

Cheers,

Gokul

[Martin Paulo]

Monday's and Wednesdays work for me...

Martin

[Birger Halfmeier]

Out of those two Mondays would work much better for me at this stage.

[Andy Gelme]

hi All,

On 2011-07-9 12:28 , Birger Halfmeier wrote:

Out of those two Mondays would work much better for me at this stage.

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Martin Paulo <martin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Monday's and Wednesdays work for me...

Could everyone please confirm what day's works best for them ?  I am open to any day Mon-thurs  from 6:15 pm.

Monday from 6:15 sounds good.

Not Tuesday (conflicts with weekly Melbourne HackerSpace meeting ... but, integrating Scala and hardware could occur at the HackerSpace !)

Preferably not Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Martin Paulo <martin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Gokul has offered to host us at Aconex, starting on the night of the 14th (thank you!)
Neither Birger nor myself will be able to make it on that night :-(  (in fact, I can't make every other Thursday either. And I can't make Tuesday's either.

I won't be able to attend the proposed meeting on Thursday, 14th July (will be traveling due to work).

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[Gokul Krishnan]

Since thursday is out & most prefer mondays, how about we schedule it for mondays at 6:15 pm ? 

I have some personal stuff after work next week. So mostly will be out on mon Jan 18th . So does Monday 25th July sound ok to everyone ?  If it's a yes, I can get abt. organising the office room for that day.

Any thoughts abt. what we want to do that day ? writing small scala programs to begin with sound like a good idea and has my vote. Any ideas for one?

Cheers

Gokul

[Birger Halfmeier]

Mondays are good for me but wouldn't the 25th of July clash with the Scala User group meeting? How about the 1st of August?

[aleksej]

Hello, guys

Looks like I'm going to be too busy in the coming months, so I
wouldn't have a chance to participate in Tutorial group,
unfortunately.
Anyway, thanks for opportunity and good luck to you all in Scala
progress!

On Jul 8, 10:41 am, Martin Paulo <martin.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> We still need to nail down a time and what we are actually going to be
> doing!
>
> A brief summary of where we are so far:
> Gokul has offered to host us at Aconex, starting on the night of the 14th
> (thank you!)
> Neither Birger nor myself will be able to make it on that night :-(  (in
> fact, I can't make every other Thursday either. And I can't make Tuesday's
> either.
>
> Our original idea was to take turns in presenting chapters from the book.
> But Andy has proposed that we actually try to use Scala to create stuff, and
> use the time to work together/learn from each other.
> I think Andy's proposal is a great one.
>
> Perhaps we could borrow from Philip Greenspun's comments about his

> course<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/08/23/improving-undergraduate...>,
>
>    - *Students organized themselves into teams of 2 (ideal) or 3
>    (acceptable) and are connected with a real-world client.*
>    - *Lecture time is devoted to teams presenting either designs or

>    prototypes and the other teams criticizing.  This prepares students to

>    participate in engineering design reviews...*
>    - *Occasionally we will use the meeting time for teams to work together

>    (sometimes paired with another team) on a data modeling challenge.  This
>    works great in rooms with a lot of blackboards and after 20 minutes we start

>    asking teams to present their work while others criticize and comment.*
>    - *Most evaluation is done by the clients (usually non-technical),

>    professional interface designers whom I bring in, and professional software
>    engineers whom I bring in as mentors and critics.  The final presentation
>    and write-up is evaluated by a team of business executives and venture
>    capitalists; students are told to pitch the project as though they were

>    seeking follow-on funding.*

[Martin Paulo]

Yes: I believe the 25th will clash with the Scala User group meeting. So from the 1st August sounds like a good start.

I get the MX on the trains simply to do the puzzles at the back: what about a program to solve the jumble word finder? That way I'll always know what the solution was :-)

Martin

[Gokul Krishnan]

thats fine then, 1st august it is. word solver is a good idea. 

[Birger Halfmeier]

Great. Should we make it the first Monday of every month?

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Andy Gelme <an...@geekscape.org> wrote:

[Martin Paulo]

First Monday sounds good. Is it enough, or should we try for a slightly higher frequency?

Martin

[Gokul Krishnan]

I would suggest we meet up on that monday and decide how we want to go from there ?  

How does 6:15 pm on Aug 1st sound  ? 

The location is Aconex , Level 1, 696 Bourke street. It is right opposite southern cross station at the Bourke st.  junction.

Cheers,

Gokul

[Birger Halfmeier]

Sounds like a perfect suggestion to me!

Sent from my iPhone

[Martin Paulo]

I'll second that!

[Gokul Krishnan]

Hi All,

Just a reminder that our first meeting is next week(Aug 1st) here at Aconex at 6:15 pm.

Addr: Level 1, 696 bourke street,  Melbourne.

(Right at the corner of spencer and bourke st. - the email exchange building)

It will have a secure access after 5.30 pm. So I will be there at the door to let you guys in. 

If you can let me know If you can make it for the meeting by monday morning.

Cheers

Gokul

[Martin Paulo]

These are two examples of the word puzzle that I thought we could attempt to solve.

I have just written a rough solver for them in Java. I'll bring it along.

Gokul: do you have a mobile number we can call if we are having problems getting there on time?

Thanks

Martin

[Birger Halfmeier]

Hi Gokul,

just letting you know that I am planning to attend tonight's meeting as well.

Thanks for organising it!

Birger