Hello everyone!
Time is rattling fast by us and our next meeting is to happen soon :-). Location and time is unchangeable:
Date: Tuesday, August 2nd
Time: 5.45pm
Location: Storozhenka 32, floor 7, room 702
As usually, you may bring topics for discussion with you or participate in discussion of the following topics:
* Learn more or earn more? by Victor Halitsyn
* Techie talk: how to talk over the phone by Ira Zayats
If time allows us, we could also talk about mind maps or socket programming.
We are looking forward to seeing you on Tue, but do not forget to register HERE first! :-)
7/30/11
7/29/11
ITRamblins second meeting is over.
It has been a week since the last itramblings meetup already... what a week... But the event is still fresh in my mind so I would like to quickly go through what happened for those who did not manage to get to the meeting although registered. So the meeting started as usual with Ivan greeting everyone(except me - I was late) and as we had quite some new people in he continued with the brief intros ab. us. After such warm-up I continued with a discussion about G+, hackathone and stuff.
Now, to tell you the truth - that was a really interesting and pleasant experience for me. It was a really nice opportunity to test the discussing and presentation skills along with interacting abilities. Keeping in mind that on itrambling everyone could enjoy such a practice on its will makes me even happier. That is really good IMO. Talking to people occasionally while making coffee is a totally different thing, and it won't even stand a chance with keeping to the topic and carrying out a discussion "in public". This is hardly compared even with a presentation - while doing the presentation you have a 'safe route' which stick to and, if you did your homework, 95% of the questions are anticipated(and of course you can skip 5%:D). Here the rules change, or should I say - disappear. I can try to stick to the route but you definitely do not know where this route would lead you in a discussion. To sum up I would really recommend trying out such an experience.
Getting back to the agenda next we had a very interesting presentation from Jim on hiring process in the US. There were lots of questions and tricky moments so it looked like job hunting is a pretty common thing to do among those who came to the even ;) Well keeping in mind that our community is quite young both in terms of existence and age of people attending it, I guess it's normal. Discussing all the peculiar aspects of the recruiting process we went a lil' bit off the clock, but noone seemed to very much worried about that.
We concluded with a summary from Ivan as usual, hoping for the next meeting to be even more interesting and vibrant. For those planning to attend it the registration link has not changed and can be found here. I hope to get the Jim's presentation and some photos for this post later this week so check back if you're interested.
UPD: photos
/Viktor.
Now, to tell you the truth - that was a really interesting and pleasant experience for me. It was a really nice opportunity to test the discussing and presentation skills along with interacting abilities. Keeping in mind that on itrambling everyone could enjoy such a practice on its will makes me even happier. That is really good IMO. Talking to people occasionally while making coffee is a totally different thing, and it won't even stand a chance with keeping to the topic and carrying out a discussion "in public". This is hardly compared even with a presentation - while doing the presentation you have a 'safe route' which stick to and, if you did your homework, 95% of the questions are anticipated(and of course you can skip 5%:D). Here the rules change, or should I say - disappear. I can try to stick to the route but you definitely do not know where this route would lead you in a discussion. To sum up I would really recommend trying out such an experience.
Getting back to the agenda next we had a very interesting presentation from Jim on hiring process in the US. There were lots of questions and tricky moments so it looked like job hunting is a pretty common thing to do among those who came to the even ;) Well keeping in mind that our community is quite young both in terms of existence and age of people attending it, I guess it's normal. Discussing all the peculiar aspects of the recruiting process we went a lil' bit off the clock, but noone seemed to very much worried about that.
We concluded with a summary from Ivan as usual, hoping for the next meeting to be even more interesting and vibrant. For those planning to attend it the registration link has not changed and can be found here. I hope to get the Jim's presentation and some photos for this post later this week so check back if you're interested.
UPD: photos
UPD2:
UPD3:
7/18/11
New meeting on its way!
Hi all,
Just as a reminder I am glad to inform you about the coming IT Ramblings meeting happening tomorrow July 19-th at 17.45 Storogenka str. 32, Lviv. Those who still haven't registered are kindly welcomed to do so HERE.
We have plenty of things to talk about and we will be very glad to see ya all again, so join in and have fun. Preliminary agenda includes:
* Thoughts on google+
* Hackathon
* Interviewing process in U.S.
* Mind maps
Later..
Just as a reminder I am glad to inform you about the coming IT Ramblings meeting happening tomorrow July 19-th at 17.45 Storogenka str. 32, Lviv. Those who still haven't registered are kindly welcomed to do so HERE.
We have plenty of things to talk about and we will be very glad to see ya all again, so join in and have fun. Preliminary agenda includes:
* Thoughts on google+
* Hackathon
* Interviewing process in U.S.
* Mind maps
Later..
7/5/11
The first public meeting
The first public meeting of the Lviv IT Rambling went great!
There were 12 folks that for first meeting is quite well. Half of people from N-iX and about the same are freelancers or employees of other companies.
Below I have posted brief notes and few photos:
I
van Pesin said about the idea of the club.
It seems that idea of the Club didn't frighten anyone:)
Next, we had fun telling about yourself. I said something like "I'm not programmer or a system administrator; I'm an IT philosopher. So I'll tell how to make a presentations and how to use time efficiently. For example if you calling me Wad (not Vadim) you save at least 1 full second every time."
I must say that so started this Jim -- he set this motif. Jim very cheerfully told enough about his wife (Ukrainian woman) and describe past work as "previous life."
It is interesting that I also called bachelor time as "the previous life."
I do not know why but N-iX folks settled on the one side of the table (closer to the sweets and chocolate)
The rest somehow on other. This is bad - still few divides the participants of event I guess.
Jim was the second (and last). He got so carried about storage solutions and
especially arrays raid that stole my speaking time too :)
But it was interesting to listen.
I was not comfortable to listen unfortunately. It seems that I'm not ready yet for this - a lot of listening without any subtitles :(
But other club members liked it, especially as Jim gently shook folks to discuss and solve problems.
In general, the idea of Lviv IT Rambling group seems to be not only brilliant idea but also quite viable thing. And I think that it should be copyed by other. The main thing for that is to find an English native speaker in your city.
There were 12 folks that for first meeting is quite well. Half of people from N-iX and about the same are freelancers or employees of other companies.
Below I have posted brief notes and few photos:
I
van Pesin said about the idea of the club.It seems that idea of the Club didn't frighten anyone:)
Next, we had fun telling about yourself. I said something like "I'm not programmer or a system administrator; I'm an IT philosopher. So I'll tell how to make a presentations and how to use time efficiently. For example if you calling me Wad (not Vadim) you save at least 1 full second every time."
I must say that so started this Jim -- he set this motif. Jim very cheerfully told enough about his wife (Ukrainian woman) and describe past work as "previous life."It is interesting that I also called bachelor time as "the previous life."
I do not know why but N-iX folks settled on the one side of the table (closer to the sweets and chocolate)
The rest somehow on other. This is bad - still few divides the participants of event I guess.
Jim was the second (and last). He got so carried about storage solutions and
especially arrays raid that stole my speaking time too :)But it was interesting to listen.
I was not comfortable to listen unfortunately. It seems that I'm not ready yet for this - a lot of listening without any subtitles :(
But other club members liked it, especially as Jim gently shook folks to discuss and solve problems.
In general, the idea of Lviv IT Rambling group seems to be not only brilliant idea but also quite viable thing. And I think that it should be copyed by other. The main thing for that is to find an English native speaker in your city.
7/1/11
First meeting's ramblings
So the "IT Ramblings" meeting has taken place and I want to share some of my impression with everyone disregarding whether you attended the event or not. I assume that if you're reading this post - you might be interested ;)
It was very nice, to begin with. As planned we(about 15 people) gathered on 29-th June and started the event at around 6 PM (GMT+2). First we had a brief administrativa by Ivan followed by a short introduction from everyone so that people could get acquainted and also get a general understanding of whom they are going to deal with for the next 1.5 hours. Turned out that each of the attendees had its own purpose which was interesting to get to know about.
After this part Ivan naturally continued into the "News" section telling about IBM, cloud and other big IT things in our life. That generated quite a lot of rigorous discussion, which we were all pleased to participate in. As the news were sorted out Jim continued with an informative and interesting rambling on data storage concepts, best practices, etc. This was both interesting and new(IMO) to almost everyone. Being quite engaged into the talk we completely ran out of time, but I think no one was disappointed as we all had a great time. Some pics from our meeting:
It was very nice, to begin with. As planned we(about 15 people) gathered on 29-th June and started the event at around 6 PM (GMT+2). First we had a brief administrativa by Ivan followed by a short introduction from everyone so that people could get acquainted and also get a general understanding of whom they are going to deal with for the next 1.5 hours. Turned out that each of the attendees had its own purpose which was interesting to get to know about.
After this part Ivan naturally continued into the "News" section telling about IBM, cloud and other big IT things in our life. That generated quite a lot of rigorous discussion, which we were all pleased to participate in. As the news were sorted out Jim continued with an informative and interesting rambling on data storage concepts, best practices, etc. This was both interesting and new(IMO) to almost everyone. Being quite engaged into the talk we completely ran out of time, but I think no one was disappointed as we all had a great time. Some pics from our meeting:
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