East Coast Megameetup II: Request for Talks

3 Post author: atucker 05 January 2012 03:23AM

One thing that I'd like to see at the next megameetup is a few informal focused discussions on various topics related to the community, like meditation or diet.

People should prepare for them, but I don't think that say, powerpoints would be necessary. Just trying to encourage knowledge transfer.

Anyone on the East Coast interested in giving one? Any things you'd like to see?

Schedule Update: The Megameetup will be held on on the weekend of January 27th or February 4th.

Comments (8)

Comment author: loxfordian 20 January 2012 01:39:31AM 0 points [-]

So I hear the Megameetup is now February 4th/5th.

I would be happy to speak about a topic in Neuroscience if people are interested.

Comment author: Jolly 25 January 2012 03:10:32PM 0 points [-]

The Megameetup is Feb 4/5th

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2012 10:33:19PM 0 points [-]

Talks are a really good idea!

In vancouver, we have been explicitly doing math skillshares for a few meetups. I've also been planning math talks for the local hackerspace. People seem to like math once you get it out of a "this will be on the midterm" context. I'll go ahead and recommend math talks.

Comment author: ahartell 05 January 2012 04:20:12AM 0 points [-]

Where will the mega-meetup be?

Comment author: atucker 05 January 2012 07:39:20AM -1 points [-]

New York, at the Leverage House.

Comment author: curiousepic 05 January 2012 02:21:31PM 0 points [-]

How was this decided? Is there any chance of one being held further South in the future?

Comment author: atucker 05 January 2012 08:49:51PM -1 points [-]

The last Megameetup was held when the DC and Cambridge groups both wanted to visit New York. It's a nice average between DC And Cambridge, and other groups didn't respond to the previous thread. On top of that, Geoff has a large venue that he's willing to let us use for free.

If more Southern groups bring it up, there's a chance of it being held in the South, but you guys might need to organize it in your own. I'm happy to help.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 05 January 2012 04:11:57AM 0 points [-]

When will you know which weekend it is on? I can do on the 27th but not the 4th.

Oh and I'd be happy to give a talk, if you are interested in more technical topics like statistics, machine learning, etc. (it's fine if you're not).