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January Admin Meeting

Action Items

  • Jon to ping Shinkle about story mapping or something else?
  • Sasha - upgrade website to fix nav issues and Meetup.com integration
  • We should push lightning talks by everybody, to make people more comfortable with speaking - Jon to add to intro slide deck
  • Jon to contact someone at Pivotal to talk about extreme pair programming
  • Sasha to talk with Bill Sempf about a possible talk (and lockpicking?)
  • Jon to talk to Arcus.io guys to give a talk

New Business

  • Sasha to ask SEPeers about doing a talk on Swift

February 19

  • Neal Thomison

March 19

  • RHIT - Steve Chenoweth - ~15min, wanting feedback
  • Lightning storm - unthemed - BYOT

April 16

  • James Bender?
  • Possibly Joel Dart? (Dean to ask)
  • Coding challenge (with JS)
  • (Maybe) Jon and someone (Sasha?) - pair programming/pair presenting
  • Fallback: lightning storm on language-specific tips 'n tricks
  • Possibility: Dave Leininger on BI?
  • Hard (Left)
  • Soft (Right)
    • Lean Startup-related talk? Matt S?

May 21

Lightning Talk Bucket

  • Dashboard (in SEP Commons) (Jon)
  • amplify - not Dean
  • Code Dojo/Workshop/Contest (project euler/katacast)
  • Lightning Talk - autorefresh/watchr
  • Favorite Tools
  • Language-specific tips and tricks - LIGHTNING STORM
  • .NET alternative web hosting and frameworks - OWIN/Katana, Nancy, Nina...
  • Data liberation (Jon)
  • Razor (view engine), possibly vs. Spark or NHaml
  • Encryption fun (Sasha)
  • Bitcoin: wallets, mining, etc
  • Alternatives to CAPTCHAs
    • Hidden un-fillable text fields
    • Changing POST location via JS after timeout
  • Open source license comparison

Future Topic Idea Bucket

  • Arduino stuff (Todd Trimble?)
  • How to find a job (speakers? fishbowl?)
  • ExpectedBehavior - Entrepreneurship?
  • Dean - how his son taught him to be a better developer
  • Joe Kuemerle - More Than Just a Commodity (Dean to talk to him about this)
  • Someone from Interactive on phone systems?
  • Quantified self - metrics about yourself - for potential self-improvement (Jon)
  • Find someone who can talk about new Amazon web services?
  • Front-end JS MVC frameworks (as part of smackdown/lightning storm?)
  • Matt S knows people who can talk about: TempoDB; Lean Startup methodology
  • Indy Dev Workshop people could present some cool stuff - LESS/SASS, Bootstrap (ask Matt S)
  • Alternative .NET web frameworks (e.g., Nancy, Fubu)
  • 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
    • 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
  • C#, In Depth (Static Reflection, Proxies, Yield Return Async Tricks, more?) - Jon
  • 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)
  • RUBY!
  • 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
  • Big data - Dave Leininger on BI?
  • LESS/SASS, CoffeeScript and/or TypeScript - how they work, why you should use them, how to get started
  • An interactive presentation on readable code (Dean)
  • Advanced UX topic(s)?
  • Sasha to ask Allen if he'd talk about logistics of creating a game (architecture, voice talent, etc)
  • How functional programming differs from imperative
  • OpenCV/computer vision
  • Safe computing - security in cloud computing (shared resources; public repos; etc), anonymizing PII data, etc.

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 vulnerable?
    • What kind of precautions are common sense and what is just paranoia?
  • Half Bowl - Work Item Breakdown Discussion - Everyone?
  • Effective Organizational Change
  • Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns (CPU/IO/Memory/Network) - Fishbowl+Pres
  • Roles Fishbowl (again)
  • Consumer electronics: how does the drive to all-in-one devices affect us devs? (Just a fad?)
  • Interviewee/interviewer techniques (again?)
  • Bitcoin/cryptocoins
  • Code reviews: how to (or not to) do them; are they valuable
  • Dealing with an increasingly mobile workforce (remote/distributed teams, etc)
  • IoT: security, convenience, proprietary vs. open technologies, home automation
  • Wearables
  • Car technology: from OBDII to Tesla-like stuff
  • How to break out of being "the expert"
  • Team collaboration: communication tools, conflict resolution, organization/prioritization
  • Distributed team collaboration: corporate buy-in