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digitalmars.D - Silicon Valley D Meetup needs blood

reply =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
Fresh or otherwise... :)

We need speakers, topics, ideas, and anything else that you can think of 
to have a useful group. A paragraph of whining follows...

We had a great start in January with one full length presentation by 
Andrei and two lightning talks by deadalnix and another member. 
Unfortunately, we could not have much success since then. I gave a 
presentation in February, which was appreciated by a small number of 
newcomers but we had to cancel the March meetup. :( We are in April now 
and not only there is no speaker yet, nobody even participates the 
discussions at the Meetup page:

   http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/

Please let me know if you can participate in any way. Otherwise, I am 
(and certainly Shammah is) happy to fill every single month with 
introductions, tutorials, or other cool stuff but we would like to have 
a more lively atmosphere; not a one-man or two-men show.

You can post on the Meetup page or write to me directly at 
acehreli yahoo.com

Thank you,
Ali
Apr 09 2015
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 4/9/2015 12:03 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 Fresh or otherwise... :)

 We need speakers, topics, ideas, and anything else that you can think of to
have
 a useful group. A paragraph of whining follows...

 We had a great start in January with one full length presentation by Andrei and
 two lightning talks by deadalnix and another member. Unfortunately, we could
not
 have much success since then. I gave a presentation in February, which was
 appreciated by a small number of newcomers but we had to cancel the March
 meetup. :( We are in April now and not only there is no speaker yet, nobody
even
 participates the discussions at the Meetup page:

    http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/


This is a perennial problem with any monthly thing. A couple suggestions:

1. Couple it with an excursion to the local watering hole afterwards for beers. 
This works for us at the nwcpp.org monthly meetings.

2. Invite speakers from companies that may not be involved with D, but produce
a 
product of interest to D programmers, such as NVidia which wants people to make 
tools for programming GPUs.

3. Invite speakers from, say, Stanford, to talk on general CS programming
topics.


 Please let me know if you can participate in any way. Otherwise, I am (and
 certainly Shammah is) happy to fill every single month with introductions,
 tutorials, or other cool stuff but we would like to have a more lively
 atmosphere; not a one-man or two-men show.


Actually, that can be pretty good. If you do a tutorial style each month, and 
video them, you can build up a library of such instructional D videos that we 
can promote separately. Instead of the Khan Academy we can have the Ali Academy
:-)
Apr 09 2015
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
nwcpp.org also usually offers pizza as well. A sponsor will bring in pizza, and 
in exchange they spend a few moments pushing their agenda (which is usually 
recruiting).
Apr 09 2015
parent reply =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 04/09/2015 12:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 nwcpp.org also usually offers pizza as well. A sponsor will bring in
 pizza, and in exchange they spend a few moments pushing their agenda
 (which is usually recruiting).


We have been offering pizza and beer as well. Perhaps that's what we 
should be marketing. :)

Ali
Apr 09 2015
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 4/9/2015 2:05 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 04/09/2015 12:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 nwcpp.org also usually offers pizza as well. A sponsor will bring in
 pizza, and in exchange they spend a few moments pushing their agenda
 (which is usually recruiting).


 We have been offering pizza and beer as well. Perhaps that's what we should be
 marketing. :)


The addition of pizza seems to have doubled the participation at nwcpp.org. It 
isn't just that people want free pizza, it's after work and they're hungry. If 
they go home to eat, they're likely to stay home.

You should definitely point out the beer and pizza!
Apr 09 2015
prev sibling parent Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On 10/04/2015 7:03 a.m., Ali Çehreli wrote:

 Fresh or otherwise... :)

 We need speakers, topics, ideas, and anything else that you can think of
 to have a useful group. A paragraph of whining follows...

 We had a great start in January with one full length presentation by
 Andrei and two lightning talks by deadalnix and another member.
 Unfortunately, we could not have much success since then. I gave a
 presentation in February, which was appreciated by a small number of
 newcomers but we had to cancel the March meetup. :( We are in April now
 and not only there is no speaker yet, nobody even participates the
 discussions at the Meetup page:

    http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/

 Please let me know if you can participate in any way. Otherwise, I am
 (and certainly Shammah is) happy to fill every single month with
 introductions, tutorials, or other cool stuff but we would like to have
 a more lively atmosphere; not a one-man or two-men show.

 You can post on the Meetup page or write to me directly at
 acehreli yahoo.com

 Thank you,
 Ali


Perhaps because it is Silicon Valley, it might be worth opening it up 
via video conferencing to get even more people for e.g. talks.
Apr 09 2015