Are You Passing Pasadena?
Join a LiveCode User Group or set up your own! It's easy, its fun, and you'll meet fellow LiveCoders to talk shop with

by Richard Gaskin

The SoCal LiveCode User Group will be meeting in Pasadena on Thursday, Dec 1, you will find details in the SC LUG forum.

Attendance is open to anyone who wants to show up. The only requirement is an interest in bantering about LiveCode for a couple hours.

I'd like to take this opportunity to invite everyone to consider starting up LiveCode groups in your own communities.

One of the things I've enjoyed about the Ubuntu community is their practice of holding Ubuntu Hour events, small local gatherings where the members just pick a location and regular meeting time, and show up to talk about their favorite tech.

The informality of Ubuntu Hours makes them very easy to set up and keep going. There are no formal presentations, no agendas, and venues are simple, often held in a local coffee shop, restaurant, or other public space.

What works for Ubuntu users can work for us LiveCoders as well:

LiveCode's audience has grown enough in recent years that most large cities - and even a few small ones - probably have enough members to make it worth doing.

And by taking a less formal approach to setting them up, they can be easy and fun and a great way to share ideas, solve problems, and enjoy the company of people who share your interest in LiveCode.

In SoCal, we've enjoyed holding larger meetings in the past, but frankly driving time on LA freeways makes it very difficult to do for the region as a whole.

So instead it seems much simpler and no less enjoyable to just set up smaller local meetups instead.

And these can be done anywhere. Even in your neighborhood.

You will find a forum for local meetings in the LiveCode forums

With all the new LiveCode users coming on board there, that's a great place to post a note with something like, "I'm in Eau Claire, Wisconsin - who wants to meet me this Tuesday for a LiveCode get together at Peet's Coffee"?

If the fun we've had in our SoCal group is any indication, you're about to have a very good time. This list is great, the forums are great, and LiveCode TV is stellar, but in-person discussion among friends who share a common interest as deep as LiveCode is an unmatchable good time.

About the Author Richard Gaskin is the ambassador of Fourth World, a Los Angeles-based software design and development consultancy. With 20 years of experience with LiveCode and related languages, Richard has developed software used by AOL, the US Library of Congress, FedEx, and hundreds of universities and medical clinics worldwide.

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