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September Admin Meeting

Action Items

Sasha, remind Shane to email Infragistics about $400. done.
Shane to email Infragistics about getting us some money ($400)
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
Dean is going to try to get someone to date us... er somethin

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).

New Format

5:30 - 6:00 Pizza/Networking
6:00 - 6:30 Bootstrap: Intro + Mini-Talk/(We like the Ruby news thing)/Something else... really what we want is some kind of organic conversation to happen. News might be a good prompt... otherwise we can just let someone take control of the projector/white board.
6:30 - ? Real Deal
? - ? Brockway

New Name

Changeset {^} (via Brian Ball... that caret is really a delta, also, vim can`t paste a delta)
shipIT
We need other name options.

The rebrand

website
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?

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

October

Alex/Jon - Git (Rebase)
let`s advertise this
javascript day!
- basics
- javascript platforms (V8, .NET, SpiderMonkey, etc.)
- amplify - Dean
- pusher - Jon?
- node - Matt Swanson
- knockout - Daniel White (Jon will contact him)
- jquery - Mike and or Dean, whoever loves it more (in other words... a love-off)
- mobile javascript
- reactive - Brian Ball
- tips + tricks - anyone
- backbone
- coffee script
- tooling
  - jslint
  - jsfiddler
  - glimpse
  - firebug/browser developer tools

November

Erlang?
Fishbowl - Change [Mother F`er, Do You Speak It?]

December

Erlang?
Fishbowl - Change [Mother F`er, Do You Speak It?]
Hackdown
- iOS
- Android
- WP7
- Wii
- canon cameras

January

Erlang?

Lightning Talk Bucket

.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

Kinect hacking
UX - Can we get someone to talk about this
C#, In Depth (Static Reflection, Proxies, Yield Return Async Tricks, more?) - Mike, Jon
Erlang - Dean will look into this with the guy from Nashville (Bryan Hunter)
Couch - Josh Bush, also from Nashville
OpenCL/GPGPU programming
Queue programming (Redis?)
DDD Revisited - Mike Brown
MVVM Gone Wild! - Mike Brown
Shinkle - Story Mapping?
Fog Creek Dude ?
Evented code - thin, unicorn, rainbows, node, kayak, mongrel2, zeromq, etc.
Editor Showdown/Tooling
AOP (weaving, etc.) + Dynamic Proxy
Software Craftsmanship (Brian Ball)
Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns and Profiling (CPU/IO/Memory/Network)
Node.js
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