Javascript presentation night

[Derek Gathright]

I talked with Pete & David earlier tonight and the topic of a Javascript themed presentation night popped up, again.  We've been talking about it for months and I think we just need to pencil something in and get the ball rolling.  

Some topics I'd love to cover

- Javascript toolkits (Dojo, jQuery, Prototype, YUI)

- Serverside Javascript (Jaxer, mod_js)

- JS/JSON DBs (Persevere, CouchDB)

- State of JS Engines (Rhino, SpiderMonkey, Tamarin, V8, Squirrelfish, JScript, etc...)

- Hacks & Techniques (AJAX vs Comet, cross-domain proxies, JSONP)

I'd also like to consider this the first meeting of a Kansas City Javascript Users Group.  I've been thinking about starting one for a while, but never had a catalyst to actually get things going.

So, just to throw a date out there, Wednesday May 20th work?

[Shashank Date]

I like the idea ... May 20th will work me. --- On Mon, 5/4/09, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Darby Frey]

I really like this idea as well.  I'll be gone on the 20th though.  Anybody like the 27th?

-darby

[Steven Chau]

I would be interested to attend the topics you have outlined below Derek.  The number of topics listed deserves a longer presentation time than one night can accommodate.  How about spreading the topics across a few once a month sessions, a weekend, or perhaps a few evenings (6:30 -- 8:30) in a row.

[Derek Gathright]

I'm unavailable the 27th.  Pretty much any other day around then works for me though.  19th?

I agree Steven, each single topic (CouchDB, jQuery, AJAX, etc...) is at least 30 minutes each, so all together we have about 6-7 hours to cover.  What if we break it out over a number of consecutive tuesdays from 6-8?

[Darby Frey]

19th works for me.

[Twiggy]

I like the idea of doing it across a bunch of Tuesdays. For those of
us with kids it's hard to do a whole weekend.

Hillary

[Derek Gathright]

The javascript meetup discussion has now spanned across multiple mailing lists, so if all this sounds intresting, go subscribe to the KC JS User Group mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/kcjug.  We can continue the discussion on date/time/agenda coordination over there.

And yeah, I think Tuesdays work good for me too.  KCRUG meets once a month on Tuesdays, so perhaps we can do a joint meeting night for the talks that Rails peeps are all hot 'n heavy over these days (ie. CouchDB).

[Derek Gathright]

I've been posting on the KCJUG list and forgot to send out a reminder here, so don't forget that tonight is the first meeting for KC Javascript at ECJC, 6pm

See thread @ http://groups.google.com/group/kcjug/browse_thread/thread/725942998d2d5e4e