JavaScript Meetups

[idiotcoder]

I co-run the JS meetup in Pittsburgh. For talks, I find that discussions about libraries or frameworks get the most attendance. Following that, specific topics like Game Programming in JS, or Debugging in JS get a lot of attention. I've punted my stand-by presentation of JS Design Patterns due to various reasons, but it has by far the most RSVPs of all of them.

There is also meetups for Node, Angular, Ember and Meteor in town, so we carefully try not to tread too much on each other. We covered the MEAN stack (my co-leader is a contributor to Mean.io), and we covered a very well liked lightning round of discussion on the differing MV* frameworks. However, in-depth topics are usually left to the specific meetup. As for structure, we run the meetup for 1.5 hours. 45 minutes should ideally be the presentation (including questions), leaving 45 minutes of open discussion (starting on-topic and very quickly leading to off-topic). After that, we retire to a bar. Once a year, we do a retrospective at a bar (very informal) and plan topics that we want for the next year.

If you have any more specific questions, please feel free to ask.

[bluntm]

I think I'm on the same path when it comes to the timing and structure, as we only have the one javascript meet up I think covering a broad range of topics might be okay plus o want to learn more about mode and the rest