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October Admin Meeting

Action Items

  • We should push lightning talks by everybody, to make people more comfortable with speaking
  • Sasha to ask Allen if he'd talk about logistics of creating a game (architecture, voice talent, etc)
  • Shane to ask Jeff Moser about doing a talk on encryption (or something else?)
  • Sasha to see about changing Meetup.com info to "advertise" for speakers/presentations
  • Sasha to ask MBA about contacting lawyer guy from IoT meetup to talk about compliance maybe?
  • David to ask somebody about presenting on Xamarin

New Business

November 19

  • Lightning storm on language-specific tips 'n tricks

December 17

  • Lawyer guy? (Sasha to find out)
  • (Maybe) Coding challenge (with JS) (get someone from Indy JS meetup for this?)
  • (Maybe) Jon and someone (Sasha?) - pair programming/pair presenting

January 21

  • Fishbowl: Wearables - how do you use them to your advantage? how have they changed your behavior?

February 18

March 17

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/cryptocoins: wallets, mining, etc
  • Alternatives to CAPTCHAs
    • Hidden un-fillable text fields
    • Changing POST location via JS after timeout
  • Open source license comparison
  • NatGeo DVD set hacking
  • Nintendo Pi
  • Swift intro (JAMoore said he can do it)

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)
  • Shinkle - Story Mapping?
  • 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)?
  • How functional programming differs from imperative
  • OpenCV/computer vision
  • Safe computing - security in cloud computing (shared resources; public repos; etc), anonymizing PII data, etc.
  • Starting a tech business with business partners / dealing with non-techie business partners
  • Parallel/distributed programming
    • Design patterns to utilize parallel resources, e.g. CQRS (Shane?)
  • Docker (and/or other containers)
  • New languages - Rust, Go, etc.
  • Drones - swarms? what can you do with them?
  • Mesh networks (Neal Thomison?)
  • Storing corporate secrets (e.g. private keys) securely
  • MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) - or separate them
  • Roslyn + code analysis, etc based on it
  • Dealing with compliance (HIPAA, PCI, etc)
  • Social engineering story time (OWASP people?)

Fishbowls:

  • Half Bowl - Work Item Breakdown Discussion - Everyone?
  • Effective Organizational Change
  • Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns (CPU/IO/Memory/Network) - Fishbowl+Pres
  • Roles Fishbowl (again)
  • Interviewee/interviewer techniques (again?)
  • Dealing with an increasingly mobile workforce (remote/distributed teams, etc)
  • IoT: security, convenience, proprietary vs. open technologies, home automation
  • Car technology: from OBDII to Tesla-like stuff (bring in resident expert(s)) - Fishbowl+Pres?
  • How to break out of being "the expert"
  • Team collaboration: communication tools, conflict resolution, organization/prioritization
  • Distributed team collaboration: corporate buy-in