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Chapter Request: Silicon Valley #73

Closed frankieliu closed 2 years ago

frankieliu commented 4 years ago

Where

Silicon Valley, South Bay, US

Who

Frankie Y Liu, Software Engineer SF Bay area. link to contact info

What

We have been meeting since November of 2019, every week on Saturdays and Sundays. meetup link

Please let me know what needs to be done in order to automatically pull events from meetup. Currently we are reading through Craq paper and Aurora paper. We spent some time on Kleppmann, Raft, Zookeeper recently. On Sundays, we implement some of things we learned from the papers.

When

Saturdays 9-12am PST and Sundays 2-5pm PST

Background

I have been a hardware engineer for most of my life. Programming has always been a hobby since childhood.

deltamualpha commented 4 years ago

Hi Frankie!

A couple of questions:

  1. The meetup link posted is for "Scalable Systems Study Group", and appears to be more of a reading-and-implementation group. Papers We Love groups have been more focused on presentations from speakers about papers and then questions afterward, although some groups are more group-discussion oriented. We do require that if you're running a Papers We Love local group that it be purely focused on that structure and use the PWL name; we are not an umbrella organization of CS reading groups.
  2. Have you been in contact with the organizers of the San Francisco PWL group? https://paperswelove.org/chapter/sanfrancisco/ We're worried that having two groups in such close proximity would be detrimental to attendance or speaker availability for both of them.
  3. Meeting twice a week for multiple hours seem like a very time-intensive commitment for members. Again, nothing wrong with that, but it seems outside of the standard PWL model.
frankieliu commented 4 years ago

Hi David,

Thanks for the questions. While the Sunday meetup is definitely more of an implementation group, the Saturday group is purely a reading group. I am completely ok with having speakers, but it is hard to get them, so we are by default more group-discussion oriented. I have read the code of conduct and I am completely in favor of it. As to structure, I don't think there is one right structure, it really depends on the members and what works for them. I am always open to suggestions. As for the PWL name, let me know what that would entail -- I am open to suggestions.

As to the SF group, it is precisely because it is hard to attend these meetings that we have a group in the South Bay, perhaps most people outside of SF bay area don't realize it is quite a commute to go from San Jose to San Francisco on a weekday night, thus making it detrimental to the attendance from South Bay people. Since we are not strong on speaker invitation, I don't think we conflict with the SF group. But I will definitely coordinate with the SF group if that becomes a modus operandi for us.

Re. meeting every week, we don't believe that reading is a one time event, often we read the same paper for couple of weeks to really ingest its contents, and we bring back old papers that have gathered dust. I am not sure what is the standard PWL model.

I really appreciate your questions, and hope that I was able to answer some of your concerns. I am more than happy to discuss live if that helps (650)269-3063.

Have a great day!

-frankie

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, 12:47 PM David Ashby notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Frankie!

A couple of questions:

  1. The meetup link posted is for "Scalable Systems Study Group", and appears to be more of a reading-and-implementation group. Papers We Love groups have been more focused on presentations from speakers about papers and then questions afterward, although some groups are more group-discussion oriented. We do require that if you're running a Papers We Love local group that it be purely focused on that structure and use the PWL name; we are not an umbrella organization of CS reading groups.
  2. Have you been in contact with the organizers of the San Francisco PWL group? https://paperswelove.org/chapter/sanfrancisco/ We're worried that having two groups in such close proximity would be detrimental to attendance or speaker availability for both of them.
  3. Meeting twice a week for multiple hours seem like a very time-intensive commitment for members. Again, nothing wrong with that, but it seems outside of the standard PWL model.

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frankieliu commented 4 years ago

Dear all, I just reread the community main page, and I think we are definitely doing all the three main things listed there: reading, discussing, and learning more about academic computer science papers. One might even argue that implementation is one way to learn. But again the Saturday meeting does very much conform to all the guidelines. Hope this helps. -f

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