Re: Twin Cities MN Area Meetup?

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Thursday, September 19, 2013, Justin Cormack  wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Steven Johnson
> <steve@xibalbastudios.com> wrote:
> > I see a Corona SDK group on Meetup.com. Looks pretty new, though, and
> > could be iffy as far as interest in Lua proper goes. A few people DO
> > appear as "on the waiting list" for a Lua group. Maybe some mobile
> > development groups would turn up something?
> >
> > I looked in the Twin Cities IGDA's game developer list but didn't see
> > any "Oh yeah, I know they use Lua" cases. I did no follow-up
> > investigation,
> > though, so who knows. Otherwise, all I can think of is that Adobe has
> > that Arden Hills office, but I have no idea who does what where.
> >
>
> I asked and Minnesota and Seattle are where most of the Adobe Lua
> people are, so you are in luck...
>
> Based on running the London Lua group (hey, come to our next event!
> http://www.meetup.com/London-Lua-User-Group/events/137932842/ ), there
> is some interest from Corona people in straight Lua talks, so we get
> some crossover.
>
> Justin

This all sounds pretty straight forward. 

1: I'll use meetup

2: keep it open to Lua and specialized Lua-verses (Corona, Luv, JIT)

3: invite people to:

   4: give short presentations

   5: bring laptop and code. 

   6: ask for opinions and help as they do either. 

I'm thinking of something like:

1: Once a month

2: Tuesday nights, starting at 6:30 (maybe 7)

4: At our offices, which has a large conference room (could support remote attendance/speakers)

I'll look more at meet up to get some ideas. 

Others who have tried this: what works? Is once month too often? 

-Andrew