Hey everyone! It's been a while & we want to kick start things up again with an (un)meetup this month! We've added two new organizers to the group (Long Cao & Stewart Stewart), so hopefully we'll make this more regular. Also we'll be co-hosting with ny-purescript this month in case you're interested! We're all coming with topics prepared to pitch & discuss, so there should be a lot of options at this one.

Just to set the ground rules: the idea of this meetup is born out of the "unconference" format, which means it's loosely organized & community driven. At the beginning of the meetup people pitch topics & then break off into groups to discuss those topics. The topics are chosen by members of the community & they can either be something that person knows a great deal about or knows nothing about & wants to learn more. It should be expected that not a great deal of preparation goes into the topic, & this hopefully encourages more people to suggest topics since there is no pressure to prepare for weeks on end. Also participants are free to go from topic to topic if they wish to do so.

The first time I heard this idea it was suggested for the Northeast Scala Symposium, & I thought it would be a disaster. I was wrong. It was a complete success, & is now by far my favorite day of the conference, & I think that opinion is shared by most of the organizers. Give it a shot & I think you'll like it too!