April open hack meeting or additional hack night

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Ruby Hack Night

What do you guys think about doing either a regular meeting as a hack night or picking a Thursday later in the month to have a night of just Ruby hacking?

[rmcastil]

Two options I see to make this happen in the near future.

1. We have it in April to replace our regular meeting. We're still waiting on @metaskills to confirm whether he wants to give his talk in April.
2. We have it this month in place of our regular meeting time. Keith will be presenting on Monday so that leaves Monday open. Only issue is will people want to go to two meetings in one week?

[metaskills]

I would love a hack night. Maybe option 3 would be to that the April 10th meet up would be this hack-a-thon and that my talk on Sass for #6 would possible be on a different day of the week or the week after. The idea is that since it would be broader and at Grow Interactive it could primarily be non-757rb.

Maybe give me a week or so some plans nailed down for #6.

[metaskills]

So we did it, and I think successfully. Any action items?

• Do another one a re-occurring schedule?
• Hack on a group topic? With mentors?

[rmcastil]

@metaskills I think it was a hit. Ryan Davis's slides for how Seattle.rb evolved are on his site. I think we're at the brink between 1.0 and 2.0. I like the idea of weekly hacking but I'm not sure how we can accomplish it with limited organizers. Maybe we just rotate through each group and try and maintain our community? Thoughts?

[metaskills]

I liked those slides. I seem to like 2.0 and 3.0 both. I think the idea of monthly social/hack would solve the limited organizer and presenter stuff and bring out other interesting topics by just talking.

[rmcastil]

Yeah. I also like the ratio. Thing is they do weekly meetings.

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I am a little late to looking t Ryan Davis's slides, but I like the ideas! Weekly meetings would present and interesting challenge though...