Silicon Valley D Meetup needs blood

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/9/2015 12:03 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Fresh or otherwise... :)
>
> We need speakers, topics, ideas, and anything else that you can think of to have
> a useful group. A paragraph of whining follows...
>
> We had a great start in January with one full length presentation by Andrei and
> two lightning talks by deadalnix and another member. Unfortunately, we could not
> have much success since then. I gave a presentation in February, which was
> appreciated by a small number of newcomers but we had to cancel the March
> meetup. :( We are in April now and not only there is no speaker yet, nobody even
> participates the discussions at the Meetup page:
>
>    http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/

This is a perennial problem with any monthly thing. A couple suggestions:

1. Couple it with an excursion to the local watering hole afterwards for beers. 
This works for us at the nwcpp.org monthly meetings.

2. Invite speakers from companies that may not be involved with D, but produce a 
product of interest to D programmers, such as NVidia which wants people to make 
tools for programming GPUs.

3. Invite speakers from, say, Stanford, to talk on general CS programming topics.

> Please let me know if you can participate in any way. Otherwise, I am (and
> certainly Shammah is) happy to fill every single month with introductions,
> tutorials, or other cool stuff but we would like to have a more lively
> atmosphere; not a one-man or two-men show.

Actually, that can be pretty good. If you do a tutorial style each month, and 
video them, you can build up a library of such instructional D videos that we 
can promote separately. Instead of the Khan Academy we can have the Ali Academy :-)