Colin Holgate wrote:
> I attend a programming user group that has gotten more and more quiet
> over the years. Sometimes nobody shows up! We’ve been wondering
> whether to change it to be a Meetup group instead
Yes and double yes! Once our local Linux group opened a Meetup page
attendance has steadily grown and the whole planning process is much easier.
I'll be putting one together for our SoCal LiveCode group soon.
Meetup nailed that task beautifully.
> My thought is to make the topic be broader than it is now, and
> different to other MeetUps that already exist. There are lots of
> programming and app development meetings, but they all tend to get
> a bit low level and geeky. Perhaps there would be interest in
> talking about higher level tools such as LiveCode?
>
> In naming a group they encourage you to say where it is, and that
> it’s a Meetup. Best I can come up with so far is:
>
> "NYC High Level Software Development Tools Meetup”
>
> Bit wordy, but how else do you describe LiveCode and other tools that
> are a long way from Java and Objective-C?
>
> I might make it be:
>
> "NYC High Level Mobile Development Tools Meetup”
>
> even if we might cover desktop and browser applications, just because
> “mobile” is more popular right now.
>
> Any suggestions about the name would be great, thanks.
Have you considered something that includes "Rapid App Development"
rather than "High Level"?
I find that the distinction between high- and low-level languages is
most readily appreciated by users of low-level languages. Maybe "Rapid
Development" may provide the focus you're looking for, and also give you
some wiggle room if you wind up having a presentation about
middle-of-the-road languages like Swift now and then.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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