Thanks to Sebastian, Darryl, Sarah, and Chris for making it out last night to the August meeting. Over the course of the evening we had some great discussions about HTML5, the new Google Maps API, Rails 3, Flex, tablets, and other fun topics. Congrats to Darryl for winning the channel developer contest with Litl and on his trip out to FITC 2010. He gave us a demo of his how the Litl development environment worked and the sign language channel he’s developed which very cool to see.

At the close of the meeting, we came to the consensus that we’d like to start building an application as a group. I shared my idea for a pub crawling application using HTML5, Google Maps and Geo-location, LawnChair, CouchDB, jQuery, and an assortment of other fun libraries that everyone seems to be into. Each meeting we’ll try to building a piece of the puzzle and see how it goes. If anyone has any suggestions or requests for features or technologies they’d like to use, come out to the next meeting and let’s dig in.

Our next meeting will be on September 21th, 2010 @ 6:00 PM at the Suntree/Viera Library, since the venue seemed to work out pretty well this month. See you then!

Just a friendly reminder that our August 2010 meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, August 24th @ 6:00 PM at the Suntree/Viera Library. Bring some ideas regarding APIs you want to check out or specs you’re interested in learning more about. No food or drinks please, per the library guidelines, but if anyone has time, we can always swing by C&J’s next door for a beer afterwards.

The conference room we’ll be using is located to the left of the entrance next to the reference desk and computer station. See you tomorrow night.

This morning I stopped by the Suntree/Viera library and checked on the availability for a meeting room per Chris, Sarah, and Sebastian’s advice. They have a ~10 person conference room that has a large white board, plenty of outlets, and a large meeting room table. They can’t furnish us with a projector and don’t allow food and drink, but they do have free WiFi available. Based on their schedule, the 3rd Tuesday of each month is available if we’d like to use the room; Monday’s were completely booked. I went ahead and took the slot for 6:00 PM to 7:45PM on the 3rd Tuesday of the month; the library closes at 8:00 PM, so we have to end 15 minutes prior to close.

For this month, I grabbed the Tuesday slot (same time) on 08/24, since the 3rd Tuesday would be tomorrow and I’d like to give more notice to the group. There are only a few of us, so if this date is absolutely terrible for anyone, let me know and we can look into changing some dates around. Also, since there is no food/drink allowed in the library and since we’re meeting earlier in the evening, I figure we can grab a beer at Charlie and Jake’s next door afterwards for anyone who is interested.

I’ll update the blog, but let know what y’all think.

Over the last couple weeks I’ve looked into having meetings at BCC and Sarah has looked into possibly getting some space at her office building. Both options did not pan out for one reason or another, so we’re still in need of a venue for our meetings. Does anyone know of any spaces we could use for our monthly meetings or have any suggestions that I could look into?

We may have to give Indian River Coffee another shot until something comes up. Zach and Darryl, can we use your projector and screen again if this is the case? If so, how does August 23rd @ 7:00 PM for our next meeting sound to everyone? I was hoping to give Monday’s a try this year, what do y’all think?

The next RAnDOM meeting will be held at Indian River Coffee at Pineda Ridge on Thursday, June 18th at 7:00pm. Based on Zach’s post last week, this meeting will be centered around mobile devices. I will discuss the advantages and quirks involved in web development and design for the iPhone. Hope to see you all there.

Sorry for the late notice. It appears that everyone decided to come to Floridain May. Brian’s wife gave birth to a little girl last week. Congratulations Brian. Zach’s in-laws are visiting as is my mother-in-law. So we’ve decided to skip this month’s meeting.