[Chicago] ChiPy Needs your Help!

[Brian Ray]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:

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> Is this going to be too much material for one meeting?  We've been  
> going a little long on presentations, and this one seems more  
> ambitious than most.


I will be coming up with some strict timelines for each lightening  
talk.  Literally, we are going to stop-watch these talks.  When time  
is up... the speaker must sit down.

The presenter can do whatever they want for the most of that time.  
However, there are a couple of questions they must answer. I will be  
making a list and sending this directly to those talking, shortly.  It  
may also be best to have each talker not use a computer.  It would be  
cooler to have someone fill out rows (one per languages) with those  
questions as columns and project this instead.  We will end up with a  
language comparison spreadsheet.

Yeah, this will be a bit of a mess. But, it will be fun. Sure there  
may be some flames, but think we can keep these contained burns. Let's  
see how it goes. Perhaps it will be a huge mess or our best meeting  
yet... I am willing to take that chance.

I certainly see where we can roll this into separate ChiPy meetings on  
two languages per in the future.

Brian Ray

PS Ruby, JAVA, and Groovy was just added to the list -> <http://chipy.org 
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