meta-meetup - Scala Exchange 2014

[Renato Cavalcanti]

Hi everybody,

So, as promised here is a short summary of what we have discussed at ScalaX 2014. Please, complete if something is missing...

Who attended the meeting?

Andy Hicks (London)

Joost Heijkoop (Amsterdam)

Tomer Gabel (Tel’Aviv)

Paulo Siqueira (São Paulo)

Pedro Furlanetto (Rio)

Sergio Pelin and Mario Camou (Madrid)

Rafal Pokrywka (Cracow)

Myself and Luc Duponcheel (BeScala)

Dick Wall (Typesafe)

Resources

Joost, Tomer and the BeScala, we have some training/hacking session material to share. 

Joost sent already a link to a public repo (https://github.com/xebia/openkitchen-akka). 

Tomer is in the process of making the training material developed at Wix available. This will come online soon. 

At the BeScala we are working on the Project Euler exercises. I’ll send a separated email with the details. 

Private Repo

In the context of Project Euler, BeScala started to use a private repo on GitHub to avoid that the answers are publish into the open. GitHub is sponsoring us with a free one year subscription for a Bronze Plan (5 private repos) and stickers! Yeah!

Other UGs were also interested in having private repos. The suggested strategy is to ask sponsorship to GitHub. If it doesn’t work out, Typesafe could eventually sponsor it.

The Meta-Meetup

We would like to have an application to aggregate information from all meetups. The initial idea that were already discussed at Scala.IO and here on this mailing list is to build something that could use the meetup.com API and/or RSS/Atom Pub Feeds to collect information about each user group. 

With such application we could easily find out:

1) Who are the organisers of a given group?

2) What are the upcoming events all over the world? What is thrilling the communities?

3) Which user group is active? Which not? How can we help a user group to keep alive?

4) Speakers could find local user groups when travelling around and suggest talks.

5) Having a list of speakers accross user groups can help finding speakers for conferences.

Dick suggested some kind of integration with TripIt. Where a speaker and the organisers of a given user group get notified when a speaker will be around.

Another suggestion was to have a second mailing list to connect speakers and user groups. 

ScalaDays commnunity tickets

We (myself actually) asked Dick Wall for free tickets for UGs organisers. The goal is to have as much SUGs leaders as we can at ScalaDays so we get more and more people involved with the meta-meetup.

This have been asked for ScalaDays 2014, but unfortunatelly it was not possible. Instead we had a discount. 

As already mentioned, this is inspired on Devoxx policy. The annual JUGs meetup happens at Devoxx Belgium and they try to get as much JUGs involved as possible. However some requirements must be full-filled. The group must have a website, at least 100 members and organise at least 4 events a year. It’s up to Typesafe to decide if they want to do the same and what are the requirements.

Other SUG organisers also asked for tickets to raffle on their communities. This is of course very welcome!

We don’t have an official answer on that yet. I guess that this is something Dick have to check internally with Typesafe/Trifork. 

Scala needs YOU!

(title shamelessly picked from Dick’s upcoming talk at ScalaDays)

Typesafe wants to improve the contribution rate of the community. It must be easier for everyone to contribute and that goes about documentation, bug fixes and SIPs. More information will come in a near future, but it’s clear that SUGs can help a lot here. 

Uff!! That’s was not that short! I hope I didn’t forget anything.

Cheers,

Renato

[Joost Heijkoop]

Hey Renato!

Do you know more about possible tickets?

The regular site is up, but not yet accessible from the main page: http://event.scaladays.org/scaladays-amsterdam-2015/#04-Registration and lists a hefty €650,- price for early bird tickets. Which is last year late ticket price...

What was promised? I'm interested in a raffle ticket and/or serious discount coupons for the members of my SUG.

The free ticket for me as an organiser is of course welcome, but not essential.

Cheers,

Joost

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[Renato Cavalcanti]

Hi Joost, 

I don’t have much news from Typesafe recently. 

In any case, there is no concrete promise of any kind. But I do expect a discount of some sort. 

I’ll send an email to see if we can get some info.

Keep you guys posted.

Cheers,

Renato

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[Joost Heijkoop]

Hey!

One of the other organisers at my meetup managed to arrange this: http://www.meetup.com/amsterdam-scala/messages/boards/thread/48773239

So I expect a similar deal for you guys.

Let's hope for the best ;)

Cheers,

Joost