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March Admin Meeting

Action Items

  • 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 Google acquisition? (or something else?)
  • Sasha to ask/email Neal Thomison about a talk
  • Shane/Dean to get contacts and stuff for SWAG

New Business

April 19

  • Two half-talks?
    • Shane Milton - CSVs with pandas
    • David Aramant - Generating Wolfenstein levels w/o ML

May 17

  • David Aramant - Tiledriver

June 21

  • Blockchain - (find someone to present on it)

Lightning Talk/Storm Bucket

  • Dashboard (in SEP Commons) (Jon)
  • Code Dojo/Workshop/Contest (project euler/katacast)
  • Favorite Tools
  • Language-specific tips and tricks - LIGHTNING STORM
  • Bitcoin/cryptocoins: wallets, mining, etc
  • Open source license comparison
  • Nintendo Pi
  • Swift intro (JAMoore said he can do it)
  • Storing corporate secrets (e.g. private keys) securely
  • Anti-patterns
  • Coding habits (source code and deps structuring; branching strategies; etc.)
  • Lightning Storm - neat hacks

Future Topic Idea Bucket

  • Arduino stuff (Todd Trimble?)
  • How to find a job (speakers? fishbowl?)
  • ExpectedBehavior - Entrepreneurship?
  • Someone from Interactive on phone systems?
  • Find someone who can talk about new Amazon web services?
  • Front-end JS MVC frameworks (as part of smackdown/lightning storm?)
  • Azure storage - blob, queue, table... (Dave Fancher)
  • 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
  • Queue/Messaging programming
  • Evented code - thin, unicorn, rainbows, node, kayak, mongrel2, zeromq, etc. (maybe make this a lightning talk type of thing)
  • Editor Showdown/Tooling
  • Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns and Profiling (CPU/IO/Memory/Network)
  • Profiling (application)
  • Personal Branding/Self Marketing
  • Database in-depth smackdown
  • LESS/SASS, CoffeeScript and/or TypeScript - how they work, why you should use them, how to get started
  • Advanced UX topic(s)?
  • 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?)
  • 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?)
  • Advanced Git topics (using reflog, etc.) - Jon or Aaron Alexander?
  • What's all this stuff about .NET Core, ASP Core, EF Core?
  • ES2015, ES2016 and ES2017 features
  • SignalR
  • Dapper micro-ORM (Dave Fancher)
  • Virtualization - Single box n-tier dev environment (Sasha)
  • Hadoop

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?)
  • 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
  • Mentorship (do this one annually?)