Meteor Charlotte, which launched in January, held its second meetup on Monday, February 3rd. The group meets at Packard Place, which is hub for entrepreneurship and innovation in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. Between the first two meetups, attendees included those recently hearing about Meteor for the first time, startup entrepreneurs learning Meteor for API development and rapid prototyping, and a college student who has quite a bit of Meteor experience developing an app for Purdue University.
While the January meetup was an introduction to Meteor and live demos, February was all about resources. One Meteorite discussed key points of Emily Stark's Meteor security talk at github. The Meteor Podcast was brought up as a great weekly Meteor news podcast. Crater.io and MeteorHacks were both recommended as Meteor related websites to follow.
Mark Shropshire discussed his research into creating restful APIs with Meteor, while explaining that Meteor's DDP (Distributed Data Protocol) may eventually eliminate the need for REST APIs in certain situations. For example, an Objective C iOS app could use DDP to communicate with a Meteor app.
The February meetup came to a close following a lively discussion about the March Meteor Hackathon. The plan is to have participants hack together on a group selected project idea. This will provide a great opportunity for learning about Meteor in realtime.