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September Admin Meeting

Action Items

  • Send reminder about getting money back from MMII building costs.
  • Jon to contact fog creek dude again.
  • Jon to ping Alex about git series
  • Jon to ping Shinkle about story mapping
  • Jon to ping Rob Conery about TekPub
  • Jon will ping Ivy Tech
  • Jon will look at cotweet
  • Matt to talk to Dave Hoover

New Business

  • What do you guys think about 6:30/7:00?
  • Alt.Net is over. We need a new name/brand.
  • We need to do a little marketing too (whatever that means).
  • Formalize an outro (what`s next month, thanks to tonites speakers, new topic ideas or minitalks, meetup page, facebook (later)etc.) (consider ordering this list)

New Format

6 - news/minitalk (show up a little earlier for social pizza(tm)) ~6.30 - #{real deal} beer afterwards

The rebrand

  • website
  • facebook
  • meetup
  • first of the year?
  • some kind of kick-off? (not clowns)
  • press release (to techpoint, somewhere else)
  • logo
  • marketing
    • meetup
    • talk to nda
    • talk to indyrb
    • slogan
    • indyhackers
    • twitter?
  • more stuff?
  • location?
  • more diverse sponsorship?

New Name

  • Changeset {^} (via Brian Ball... that caret is really a delta, also, vim can`t paste a delta)
  • shipIT
  • Brainiacs
  • Hemispheres
  • Indy Alpha
  • Indy Geeks
  • Indy Alpha Geeks
  • Indy Devs
  • Develop Indy (nope)
  • Indy Develop!
  • Something New
  • Something like The Combine
  • Developers of the Corn
  • Kernel
  • The Cob
  • Coders
  • Kernel Codeers
  • Developeers
  • asterisk-Foundry
  • Hot Molten Love
  • HoosierDevs
  • Something race related
  • Dev Forward
  • Pull Request

Who are we and what do we stand for?

  • Coders

  • Craftsmen

  • Occasional Designers

  • hackers

  • developers

  • techie

  • Generalists

  • Specialists

  • (alpha) geeks

  • Best Practices

  • agile

  • lean

  • change

  • current (not stagnant)

  • open

  • practices

  • forward thinking

  • Continuous Learning

  • Indy

  • cool

  • horizons

November

  • Alex/Jon - Git (Rebase?)
  • Fishbowl - Lightning Bowl
    • Change [Mother F`er, Do You Speak It?]

December

  • Erlang - Bryan Hunter

January

  • Left Brain
    • Queue/Redis - Matt Swanson
    • Something - Brian Ball
  • Right Brain
    • Anything - Dave Hoover? (Matt Swanson will check into this)
    • Something - Brian Ball
    • Heedful Programming - Matt Swanson

February

  • Left Brain
    • Something - Jon or Dean
  • Right Brain
    • ExpectedBehavior?
    • Panozzo (or friend) - Lean Startup

Lightning Talk Bucket

  • amplify - Dean
  • .NET 4 parallel tasks - Shane
  • NuGet + OpenWrap
  • Code Dojo/Workshop/Contest (project euler/katacast)
  • Chris Shinkle about Story Mapping
  • Lightning Talk - autorefresh/watchr
  • Anti-If Campaign - Mike
  • Greg - Google Closure
  • MEF
  • T4
  • Favorite Tools

Future Topic Idea Bucket

  • Local company experts - ExacTarget, Aprimo, nFrame, ExpectedBehavior (entrepreneurship), OrderedList (Nunemaker), Raytheon Dude (Dr. Eberhart), IUPUI profs?, Jeff Moser (startups, machine learning, etc.)
  • Hackdown
    • iOS
    • Android
    • WP7
    • Wii
    • canon cameras
  • Kinect hacking
  • UX - Can we get someone to talk about this
  • C#, In Depth (Static Reflection, Proxies, Yield Return Async Tricks, more?) - Mike, Jon
  • OpenCL/GPGPU programming
  • Couch - Josh Bush, also from Nashville
  • Heedful Programming - Be Mindful About What You Do (http://swanson.github.com/talks/heedful-programming), also, let`s talk to Dave Hoover or Ade to see if they want to come talk about.
  • Queue programming (Redis?)
  • Evented code - thin, unicorn, rainbows, node, kayak, mongrel2, zeromq, etc. (maybe make this a lightning talk type of thing)
  • DDD Revisited - Mike Brown
  • HTML5 Topics - Websockets, webgl, webworkers, local storage, css3
  • RUBY!
  • MVVM Gone Wild! - Mike Brown
  • Shinkle - Story Mapping?
  • Fog Creek Dude ?
  • Editor Showdown/Tooling
  • AOP (weaving, etc.) + Dynamic Proxy
  • Software Craftsmanship (Brian Ball)
  • Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns and Profiling (CPU/IO/Memory/Network)
  • Profiling
  • Virtualization - Single box n-tier dev environment
  • Personal Branding/Self Marketing
  • Personal/Professional Development (e.g. how do I find the time)
  • Bitchfest - Dean is responsible for beer

Fishbowls:

  • Half Bowl - Work Item Breakdown Discussion - Everyone?
  • Building a professional network
  • Effective Organizational Change
  • Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns (CPU/IO/Memory/Network) - Fishbowl+Pres
  • Roles Fishbowl (again)
  • War-Stories
  • Interviewing techniques

Random thoughts:

  • Buzzword Bingo is a decent idea to do sometime