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Starting a book club in Montreal (8)

April 30th, 2007 · by Heri · Events

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Edward Ocampo-Gooding, a Computer Science student graduate from Bishop’s, was at Concordia University yesterday to distribute the books he received from O’Reilly. The books ranged from Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Interface Design, Graphic design etc…

I want to thank him officially for this kind contribution to the community. Now, I want to do something too, so I would like to take this opportunity to start something.

The idea is to get together monthly in a coffee shop in Montreal or any other cool place. Each person would then talk, in english or en francais, about a book he read recently, concepts he liked in the book, and things he didn’t. The audience then asks a couple of questions and the guy/girl then gives his opinion. Books can range from Ruby, Python, XHTML/CSS, information architecture, interface and graphic design, or other topics related to web development. At the end of the session, people can swap books. Or you can just keep yours if you didn’t see anything worthwile. It’s up to you.

The goal is to share and get to know what are the current best practices. (for instance, Django guys could explain why they chose the framework). I have myself a list of books that I would like to trade with other developers/designers.

If you are interested/would like to co-organize, please leave a comment. If there are at least 4 or 5 people, we can start something in 3 weeks.

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