[group-organizers] Teach me X

[Catherine Devlin]

Dayton's Dynamic Language Programming group averages about 10 people
per meeting.  We did a very successful "Teach Me Ruby" session where I
was the ignorant student/presenter, and our one hard-core Rubyist
supplied the knowledge.  It would have been even better with a couple
more Rubyists, but I think it works well as long as you have at least
one expert who promises to be there.  It probably helps if the expert
is the gregarious, effusive sort.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:06 PM, David Christian
<david.christian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We just had a lightning talk evening here in NYC.  The format was very
> well received - I think people were looking for a way to get more
> involved.  I think there is a minimum size for your group before this
> type of format works though; we tried it last year when we had about
> 10 people showing up regularly and it was not successful at all.
> There's a lot of energy in the group right now, and several people
> suggested trying to duplicate Steve Holden's patented "Teach me
> twisted" or "Teach me web testing" format.
>
> Has anyone had success duplicating this at their group?  My concern
> would be that the group, not being self-selecting in the same way,
> might have trouble finding a topic about which to do  the "teach me"
> session.
>

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