From: Daniel Lambert <danielflambert@...>
Date: 2011-11-10T04:08:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Forming a Ruby meetup group...

One thing you can do is take some of the more interesting questions asked
on this mailing list and have the group discuss them, come up with an
answer and share the answer with the rest of us here.

On 09/11/2011 13:51, "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@gmail.com> wrote:

>Where I work we have a local Ruby group that used to meet up, until the
>organizer left the company. Now the responsibility has fallen on my
>shoulders to lead the group. So I'm shopping around for ideas about what
>would make for interesting topics for future meetings.
>
>What sort of topics would you find interesting and would make you want
>to go to such a group?
>
>One idea I had was to have regular programming challenges [1], that can
>be completed in about 15 minutes. Then the group could split up into
>pair programming groups to tackle the challenge. Then we could wrap up
>the meetup by discussing and comparing how we each solved the problem.
>
>What I want to avoid is having the meetings be different people (or the
>same people) doing presentations. They just feel really dry and turn the
>meeting into a sort of Toastmaster for programmers. Since it's a
>programming language I'd rather have it be learning by doing.
>
>What do you guys think? Ideas? Suggestions?
>
>1 - Problems like at Project Euler - http://www.projecteuler.net/
>
>-- 
>Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@gmail.com>
>http://mcpierce.multiply.com/
>"What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"
>