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
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