Does anyone know if the folks over at the 757 Makerspace have any experience with this? I wonder if they'd be willing to give a talk / promote their space? Do we have any contacts we can reach out to and ask?

http://balderdash.co, creator of sails.js and other cool things. They have an opening right around our October 20 meetup. I, for one, think this would be awesome.

@metaskills how do you feel about getting bumped? :)

Pam Selle of Philly-JS-Dev/Comcast would like to come down to speak

(View source for link)

Submit pull request with new logo images to logo.js.

This is pretty far in advance, but O'Connor just contacted me and they're putting us on the calendar for their new facility for (Wed) July 23rd.

Travis gave me a brief tutorial on publishing npm packages that I'd like to see as a blog post.

use some sort of jekyll pages.

Also consider getting norfolkjs.org?

Please put your agenda items here so I can get them added to the deck.

add this.

Meteor will having a worldwide launch party for their 1.0 release. Date TBD, but if we host a local party then they'll send us some swag with their new logo design. Contact is Jade Wang.

Requests or suggestions?

A few members of the group have requested a very basic Javascript meetup to learn how to make a useful web project from the start.

@shackbarth is going to do another "Sharpen Your Saw" talk/workshop.

Ideas for workshops, speakers, sponsors, locations, etc. This might be a good time to do the noob workshop since Travis and I will have some ideas from JSConf.

Looking to do this 2nd or 3rd week, probably not 3rd Monday since it is St. Patrick's Day. Smartmouth is out due to $$, but The Birch can reserve us some space on a weeknight without a deposit.

Objective:

Establish a pair programming calendar that can be used by members of NorfolkJS to request and announce pairing sessions. This would be used to encourage members of NorfolkJS to work together outside of our monthly meet-ups.

Possible Solution

This can be a Google Calendar to start or something a little more fancy.

Requirements

We would need to establish the following:

• Calendar
• Access
• Usage protocols
• Remote Pairing Solution

@BanzaiMan (Hiro Asari) from Travis-CI is going to do an introduction to testing on Travis CI.

Location of this will likely be xTuple

T-shirts for NorfolkJS
Probably using https://www.booster.com/

Strategically, should be similar to @757rb 's strategy; have a first patch printed first using customink etc;

Then before a large even such as JSConf, wear said shirt and run a booster campaign strategically during this time to promote.

JsConf is May 28-30th.

cc @cosmicmeow

@PamSelle will be doing a talk on JavaScript Testing and talking about her book "Choosing a JavaScript Framework."

there's a nodeschool event in pa coming up in april, wanted to send it to everyone in the group....is there a mailing list?

For people to be able to participate and note their involvement/attendance of @norfolkjs meetups.

post your github user below

We're looking for more sponsors specifically to provide food for the meetups. If you are interested or you know of a company that I need to reach out to, please comment below!

• Sarah Bray is going to talk to &Yet to see what they might do for out of state sponsorship.
• I'm going to bother back all of the recruiters that keep emailing me :)

Any interest in us doing a JavaScript centered, Reddit style, "Ask Me Anything" in the Meetup forums? If so, we could try to woo some folks that wouldn't normally travel out our way. Could be an interesting segue into future NorfolkJS meetup topics.

Beer.js

• Learn about web mapping using popular libraries such as Leaflet, ArcGis Online, and Google-maps
• Partners @norfolkjs, @CodeforHamptonRoads, @cityofnorfolk, @c4hrva
• Tentative Date April 23rd or April 30th Wednesday 6-9PM
• In partnership and preparation for National Civic Hack Day and the Norfolk City Challenge

Topic: Appify your website. Creating responsive web apps using HTML/CSS/JS or (topic suggest)
Tentative Date: May 21st Wednesday 6-9 or optional
Partners - @CityofNorfolk @norfolkjs @c4hrva etc

We're getting a bunch of free books from our publisher sponsors (thanks @bmf and @stanzheng) to raffle off at the user groups, but I'm also open to giving books to anyone who would like to review them. This also means that we can request specific books if someone has a title they really want to read/review.

If we want to do some realtime chatting: https://gitter.im/norfolkjs

• Be Official
• Get Swag
• http://oreilly.com/ug/

Possible partnership with Makerspace to do this on July 26/27?

https://github.com/nodebots/nodebotsday

Currently reaching out to:

Pragmatic Programmer

[email protected]
*Does not have an active User Group program but is planning to implement one in the next few months. Revisit after 5/25/2014.

Apress

[email protected]
Apress Media LLC
233 Spring Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY, 10013
USA

No Starch Press - SPONSOR

[email protected]

Packt

http://www.packtpub.com/user-groups-registration

Make Magazine

[email protected]

Treehouse - SPONSOR

[email protected]

Reached out to Community Manager Faye on 3/5.

Code School - SPONSOR

https://www.codeschool.com/contact
Expected Response time 48 hrs as of 10:15 EST 2/26/2014

Lynda.com

http://www.lynda.com/support/contact.aspx
Your email has been sent to Marketing » Community Relations . We will make every attempt to answer your inquiry as quickly as possible. Emails requiring a response are usually answered within 2 business days. We are open Monday - Friday from 7am to 5pm PT

Add information to wikis for NodeBots day: https://github.com/norfolkjs/nodebotsday/wiki.

• Need links to information on building SumoBots
• Need links to YouTube playlist
• Need reveal.js slides

@bmf @stanzheng - Request O'Reilly and No Starch books for raffles.

No food sponsor yet, going to try to have the meetup at the Virginia Arts Festival building: http://www.vafest.org/2014/about/robin-hixon-theatre-tech-info.

If you have one to spare, I am very interested.

Would like to see a talk on ECMAScript 6, if anyone has any ideas on someone who is contributing to the project?

I think @1kevgriff and @tjwebb also might be interested in lightning talks on the subject?

In the interest in spreading the JS-love around, I'm trying to get a list of possible locations around downtown Norfolk to host us for future meetups.

Here are the requirements:

• Has to have space for at least 30 people
• Has to have a screen or a wall that we can project on
• Has to have reliable wireless internet
• Has to be open to the public (no security list or mandatory RSVP)
• Has to allow food and drink
• Preferably in or near downtown Norfolk

If you have any ideas, post them below!

Ideas for workshops, speakers, locations, sponsors, etc.

Please post any agenda items here and I'll get them into the slides for 7/26.

@lynnaloo
A short list of books to request in the JS landscape?
JS the good parts (crockford)

Need to put our Glass videos on YouTube.

Hi all,

I'm planning national day of civic hacking an event that will be on May 31st at the TCC Roper.

We're looking for participants, speakers and mentors for the event. If you're interested in doing any of the follow please get in touch .

This is in part connected the Next NorfolkJS meetup which will be on Geospatial Maps!
#11

http://www.meetup.com/NorfolkJS/events/178440172/

Check out the event at http://c4hrva.us/ndoch and let me know any feedback

Thanks

you can contact me at [email protected]

I've got extras. Let me know if you're interested.

I'm thinking we should have a monthly blog post, published opposite our meetup for the month to maintain interest in the topic for the month. We could also publish the link via meetup and twitter when the article goes up.

January 19th - Unless Meteor gives us a better hard date for 1.0, this can be a place holder for @BretFisher's Meteor talk.

need a cool logo for the group

I like this idea from @metaskills (via @stanzheng) to do a sticker trade with other user groups. I've got a contact at EmpireJs (I already gave them stickers) that I can follow up with. If anyone would like to reach out to other groups, I can provide the stickers.