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OKC Elixir Group

OKC Elixir Study Group -- DRAFT

###Disclaimer I have no freaking idea what I'm doing or if this will even work out but that's never really stopped me from trying. So let's see where it goes. Committing to a group that meets physically together was going to be tough, so I wondered how well a virtual group would work, no travel time, can do it after the kids go to bed, etc. I'm also going to put a time limit on this, both in how long the group meets and how long we do this.

##Concept Over the next 6 months, work through some of the problems in Brian Hogan's Exercises for Programmers using Elixir. Then once or twice a month, we will hold a 45-60 minute skype conference call to discuss problems we had and how we solved them.

###Format

Time Agenda
7:45-8:00 Can you hear me now? (mic check)
8:00-8:20 Topic Presentation
8:20-8:45 Sharing Time (I like my solution/I had a hard time with this)
8:45-9:00 Where are we going?

###Schedule (proposed only, subject to change) I've picked 3rd Tuesday of each month but we can discuss this at first meeting. Sun/Mon/Tues evenings are pretty wide open for me. I've also moved things around a bit in Nov/Dec to avoid holidays.

Date Chapter Presentation Topic
October 27 Kick-off/Test Run
November 17 Chapter 1
December 15 Chapter ?
Jan 12 Chapter ?
Feb 16 Chapter ?
Mar 15 Chapter ?

####Topic Ideas Pattern-Matching
Approaching the Problems - bphogan?
Things you should know about Erlang - sproctor?
Repos are not Repos - robconery?
Do This Not That - chris_mccord?
Distributed Elixir/Phoenix

Code of Conduct

Always keep in mind this is a a study group with people at various levels and time available. The Elixir Contributer Code of Conduct applies here too. (Warning: I'm going to be fairly intense about being nice and keeping it constructive. We're all friends here and want to continue to be.)

Skype

I know the pain and I'm completely open to alternatives, I would like each person to be on video (with a headset) and we need screen sharing capabilities. The two main contenders are skype and google hangouts, I picked skype because I work under a delusion that it works better, sometimes.

@mkchandler
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From my limited research, looks like both Skype and Hangout video conferences are limited to 10 people for video.

@jbavari
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jbavari commented Oct 22, 2015

I'm still a huge Elixir newb but I've been diving in the last few weeks. I would love to hop in this as well. Unfortunately, my Tuesday nights are usually booked up.

Topic idea - deciding when to use tuples/lists efficiently.

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