Nerd Party, v 3.1
summary
Seattle.rb traces a concrete evolution: from monthly presentations to weekly cafe hacking (consistent location Vivace), to a hybrid with monthly socials at Substantial, and now study groups with real homework using SICP, Realm of Racket and Nand2Tetris. Tools include Racket for games and hardware simulation that builds a CPU, assembler, VM, compiler and tiny OS. Communication runs over Google Groups. Signup attrition is stark: 44 signups, 13 intros, 9 organizers, 6 meet, 4 finish.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Nerd Party v 3.1
- 1:27Introduction
- 1:53Downtown Ruby Users Group
- 2:13Seattle.rb Feb 2002
- 2:30Constantly Evolving
- 2:50Evolution of Seattle.rb
- 3:293 main stages
- 4:46We talked about the Seattle.rb "recipe"
- 5:14Help make your group
- 6:30Period: Monthly
- 9:12Hard to get speakers.
- 9:24Harder to keep speakers.
- 9:39Workplace locations meant security is "a thing".
- 10:03Nerd Party! Era
- 10:17Location: Café
- 10:35Format: Unstructured Hacking
- 13:12Nerd Party + Monthly Social Era
- 13:32Nerd Party @ Café
- 13:42Weekly Nerd Party!
- 13:56Lightning Talks
- 14:42Balances 1.0 and 2.0
- 15:03"Need" to get speakers.
- 15:59Period: weekly, before nerd party
- 16:11Pick a challenging book
- 18:21Self- Organized
- 18:38Orthogonal to regular nerd party
- 19:46Ruby Brigade Recipe
- 20:01Food and/or Drink win
- 20:31Be supportive
- 21:10Bring a project, question, or a problem...
- 21:21Work at multiple levels
- 21:32Strike a Balance
- 22:05Pick a book
- 22:43Make it challenging.
- 22:57Organize a group
- 23:12Get a mailing list for communication
- 24:09Surprise Lightning Talk!
