Meetup Suggestions

[jdantonio]

Use this thread to suggest future meetups. Suggest anything! We'll discuss it as a group. And don't worry--suggesting a meetup is not volunteering to lead the meetup. Suggest something that interests you and we'll find someone to host.

[jdantonio]

Build a Blog with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

Now that we have this awesome new Club website which was built with Jekyll and is hosted on GitHub Pages we could have a meetup in which participants are lead step-by-step through the process of creating their own personal web site.

[jdantonio]

Hands-on Intro to

We had really good turnout for our Hands-on Intro to Node.js meetup. Why not do that again, but with other languages and technologies?

Languages I (personally) would like to learn more about:

• Go
• Haskell
• F#
• Clojure
• Scala
• Rust
• Elixir

Languages that VHTers could lead meetups on:

• Ruby
• Erlang
• JavaScript

[jdantonio]

Open Source Bug Bonanza

Something I've seen other dev groups do is to pick an open source project, look at the bug list, and start programming fixes. As an example, Rails currently has 300+ open issues that need looked at. How cool would it be if a Code Club member submit a patch to Rails that gets accepted?

What are some other projects that we could swarm on?

[jdantonio]

exercism.io

The exercism.io web site is similar to Cyber Dojo and Project Euler in that it provides a bunch of programming problems which can be solved with a bunch of languages. What makes exercism.io different is that you can submit your solutions to the public repository and other programmers around the world can give you feedback. As with our Language-Neutral Code Kata nights we can pick on exercise per night, implement and submit our answers, then--if there is time--provide feedback to other exercism.io users.

[PhilRunninger]

No subcomments?!?! Oh well. With regard to Jekyll, as an alternative to learning to create our own personal websites, we could also walk through how to make changes to the club's. Pretty similar, I suppose.

[PhilRunninger]

neovim is a replacement for the classic vim text editor that's been gaining a lot of traction lately. It's a possibility for an open source bonanza, especially for us vimmers in the group. From what I've read, development on Windows is quite tricky though.

[jdantonio]

@PhilRunninger I have mixed feelings about subcomments, that's a different discussion entirely. However, we can always create new Issues when we want to break out a discussion. GitHub has awesome tools for tracking links between issues. For example, watch what happens when I reference issue #1 from here...

[rpottsoh]

@jdantonio I see that the July meetup is scheduled for the same topic as was covered during the February meetup. Any chance of moving up the August topic to July or perhaps giving exercism.io a try?

[jdantonio]

@rpottsoh The plan from early-on was to have a "code kata" day once every few months. There are many katas we can work on. I scheduled that for July because that's in the middle of the summer and many people may be taking vacations. I will be on vacation in early July so I can't move the August topic to July unless someone else wants to lead it (and AFAIK I'm the only one in the Club with Clojure experience). If you would like to volunteer to lead July's meetup I'm sure @vht-hfenton would happily let you have it, then we can do whatever topic you would like. Otherwise, it's up to @vht-hfenton since she volunteered. She may be willing to do exercism.io, but that's entirely up to her.

[hfenton]

@rpottsoh I will volunteer for another month if you would like to lead July's meetup. Just let me know. Thanks!

[rpottsoh]

@vht-hfenton thanks for the offer but I am not interested in hosting at this point. I mainly just wanted to bring it to @jdantonio's attention that the kata chosen for July was previously done in February. Thanks for volunteering again. See you next month.

[hfenton]

@rpottsoh We will not be doing the same kata, that is a mistake on our part. Thank you for pointing that out! Just let us know if you ever want to host, we would love to have you!

[localjo]

I'd love to take a look at the basics of simple neural networks. Something like http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/?

This is way too complex to cover in a meetup, but I found it inspiring: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/