[pdxdjango] Meeting tomorrow?

[Adam Lowry]

We were talking on IRC a few times in the last couple weeks, and no one had any ideas for talks for this months meeting, which should be tomorrow (Wednesday) evening.

Anyone have something they'd like to present on?

If not, shall we do a social meeting or just pass for the month?

Adam

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[Lennon Day-Reynolds]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Adam Lowry <ad...@therobots.org> wrote:
> We were talking on IRC a few times in the last couple weeks, and no one had any ideas for talks for this months meeting, which should be tomorrow (Wednesday) evening.
>
> Anyone have something they'd like to present on?
>
> If not, shall we do a social meeting or just pass for the month?

I'm still game to talk about our in-house non-South migration strategy
tool, and/or just grab a pint and talk shop.

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Lennon Day-Reynolds <rco...@gmail.com>
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[Chris McDonald]

I'd be really interested in that, we will be setting up south or similar at work starting in mid may most likely.

On Apr 20, 2010 3:59 PM, "Lennon Day-Reynolds" <rco...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Adam Lowry <ad...@therobots.org> wrote:

> We were talking on IRC a f...

I'm still game to talk about our in-house non-South migration strategy
tool, and/or just grab a pint and talk shop.

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Lennon Day-Reynolds <rco...@gmail.com>
http://rcoder.net/

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[Brett Carter]

How about bringing back the Django Lunch for this month?
-Brett

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Adam Lowry <ad...@therobots.org> wrote:

[Adam Lowry]

We talked a bit more in IRC, and while we want to hear about Lennon's system, no one had any ideas for lightning talks or anything else to flesh out a proper meeting. So I propose we head on over to Bailey's Taproom between 6:30 and 7, and have a more social meetup?

For May, here's an idea: Lennon's homegrown migration system as a talk, along with lightning talks on libraries or reusable apps we're using or experimenting with. At 5 minutes each you don't have to be an expert, but with a solid month you've got a lot of time. I imagine a lot of people will have suggestions for what they'd like to hear about tomorrow.

See you then!

Adam

[Igal Koshevoy]

>
> shall we do a social meeting or just pass for the month?

I'd like to give some unsolicited advice on this topic because I like
you all: Having planned content for a meeting is nice, but you can and
should have great meetings without it.

The formula for success seems to be: Put smart people in a room
regularly, encourage them to talk to each other, and good things will
happen.

In the past few years of running pdxruby and pdxfunc, I've noticed that
once I got enough regulars and others comfortable with interacting, it
was possible to have an awesome meeting that covered tons of content and
ran late into the night even if there was nothing on our agenda when we
started the meeting.

What happens at these unstructured meetings? Some folks might feel
uncomfortable signing up to give a "real" talk, but will offer to "wing
it". Someone will show some code they wrote recently that seemed to be
good or bad, and others will comment on the approach. Someone will
mention a challenge, which others will also quickly admit to having, and
we'd get an informal panel of experts to give them great advice. A few
people will mention wishing to find or learn something, and we'd do an
activity to explore it. Someone might complain about an issue, and get a
great impromptu talk by an expert who would have never scheduled this as
a talk because it seemed so obvious and common to them, despite it being
fresh and new to many others. Etc.

Cheers!

-igal

PS: I'm describing this in detail because I know most of you go
primarily to pdxpython meetings, which are usually very structured and
end as soon as the planned content is presented. I enjoy those meetings,
but am mentioning this as a successful alternative approach to consider
for times when you just don't have preplanned content.
PPS: I'm sorry to keep missing the pdxdjango meetings, I've got a
schedule conflict. I'll hope to join you later in the evening though
after my other meeting ends.

[Adam Lowry]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Igal Koshevoy wrote:
>>
>> shall we do a social meeting or just pass for the month?
>
> I'd like to give some unsolicited advice on this topic because I like
> you all: Having planned content for a meeting is nice, but you can and
> should have great meetings without it.

Thanks for the insight, Igal. This group's been a bit up and down, since we started only socially and have had a pretty wide range of attendance. I want to make sure people know what they're getting when they come to a meeting, though; since people might have to go quite a bit out of their way to come in to downtown, I'd hate to have them think they're getting a prepared talk and just get discussion. But as long as we discuss it on the list, I think we'll be ok for that.

And I suppose in general PIE's good for that -- we do have beverage, after all.

We'll stick with Bailey's tonight, however. I haven't been there in at least a week and a half, and I'm starting to go into withdrawal.

> PS: I'm describing this in detail because I know most of you go
> primarily to pdxpython meetings, which are usually very structured and
> end as soon as the planned content is presented. I enjoy those meetings,
> but am mentioning this as a successful alternative approach to consider
> for times when you just don't have preplanned content.
> PPS: I'm sorry to keep missing the pdxdjango meetings, I've got a
> schedule conflict. I'll hope to join you later in the evening though
> after my other meeting ends.

I hope to see you!