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January Admin Meeting

Action Items

  • Jon to ping Shinkle about story mapping
  • Jon to ping Rob Conery about TekPub
  • Jon will create common Twitter password for us
  • Add a 'contact us' link to the website.
  • Matt S. is thinking about: TekPub, PeepCode, CodeSchool?, Heroku (a year?), github, hacker monthly (year of print magazine), Manning - Shane will talk to Pearson and Manning. Matt S. will talk to the rest of this list.
  • Alex to ask hipster DBA dude to talk about PostgreSQL

New Business

  • People should email Jon and/or Matt with local happenings info
  • Heroku mailing app is functional!
  • Next fishbowl: create a list of topic prompts to fill in awkward silence
  • Dean talked to people at CodeMash about presenting!
    • Leon Gersing
    • Joe Kuemerle
    • Bill Steele
    • others

February

  • Ask attendees what they would like to see in future meetings
  • Hard (Left)
    • Half-bowl on Sheehe's talk
  • Soft (Right)
    • Importance of UI design - Matt Sheehe

March

  • Hard (Left)
    • Database smackdown?
    • Someone from Interactive on phone systems?
  • Soft (Right)
    • Joe Kuemerle - More Than Just a Commodity (Dean to talk to him about this)
    • How to find a job (speakers? fishbowl?)
    • ExpectedBehavior - Entrepreneurship?
    • Panozzo (or friend) - Lean Startup
    • Dean - how his son taught him to be a better developer
    • Jon - "Hacking your job" (tentative title)

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
  • Greg - Google Closure
  • MEF
  • T4
  • Favorite Tools

Future Topic Idea Bucket

  • Dave Fancher - .NET dynamic programming?
  • Cloud storage - not Shane - SkyDrive, DropBox, GDrive, Box.net...
  • Local company experts - ExactTarget, Aprimo, Expedient, ExpectedBehavior (entrepreneurship), Github (Nunemaker), Raytheon Dude (Dr. Eberhart), IUPUI profs?, ChaCha, SlingShot
  • Hackdown
    • iOS
    • Android
    • WP7
    • Wii
    • Canon cameras
    • Routers
  • Meta-meetup - have people from various Indy-area meetups come talk to us about themselves (not actually a presentation thing)
  • 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 (Sasha to ask Nate?)
  • 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. (Matt S)
  • Queue/Messaging programming
  • 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, new JS features
  • RUBY!
  • MVVM Gone Wild! - Mike Brown
  • Shinkle - Story Mapping?
  • Fog Creek Dude ?
  • Editor Showdown/Tooling
  • 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)
  • Database in-depth smackdown

Fishbowls:

  • Phishbowl (thx Jen)
    • How do viruses actually work?
    • What do most viruses actually do?
      • What is the point?
      • Who wrote them?
      • For what purpose?
      • Where did they start and how did they spread?
    • How do people actually get viruses? (seems like a ‘duh’ question, but I’m sure there are hundreds of ways)
    • How do you recover from a virus?
    • How have you realized that you have a virus?
    • What is the most effective phishing attempt you’ve ever seen?
    • Do you have any stories about friends/family/you getting hacked?
    • How do people actually steal identities?
      • Where do they get their information?
      • How do people become targets?
      • What kind of things make you vunerable?
    • What kind of precautions are common sense and what is just paranoia?
  • 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)
  • Interviewing techniques