Announcing: MooTools in Real Life
Written By Michelle Steigerwalt, on Wednesday, May 5th 2010, 12:52pmIf you’ve been paying attention for the past few years, you’ve probably noticed the growth of MooTools, both as a project and as a thriving community. Unfortunately, it has come to light that many so called “members” of the JavaScript community may, in fact, be automata.
To protect ourselves and the MooTools community, we’ve started two physical screening programs (or “meetups”), one in London and the other in the heart of Silicon Valley.
In a surprising turn of events, both groups have had very informative meetings in which actual people have shown up, allowing us to conclusively state that at least some of the members of the MooTools community are, in fact, human. Insightful discussions were had by all, new users and advanced developers alike.
If you’re in the Bay Area or London, it is imperative that you attend at least one of our screening sessions, to verify yourself as human. To be notified about future meetups, as well as voice your opinion on when/where they should be, you can join the Meetup.com group for your area:
Anything Interesting to Share?
If you have something insightful and MooTools-related to share, and think you can spin it into a fifteen minute presentation, please let us know.
Right now, we don’t have any formal communication set up, but it shouldn’t be to hard to get in touch with either Darren (London) or myself (Bay Area). Contact information can be found on the developers page.
Thanks for using MooTools, and we hope to see you there!
May 5th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Sounds amazing. Ryan Florence and I have discussed a potential meet up in Utah. If anyone is interested get at me… merrick.christensen[at]gmail.com.
May 5th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Does anyone here live in Toronto?
May 5th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
+1 Toronto. Matias, msg me on twitter
May 5th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I would really love to join a meetup, the nearest place would be London for me, but that’s even to far away for just a day. I don’t know how developers are spread in the world, but maybe there could be such a meetup in Germany (not now, but someday)? Cologne, Berlin or Hamburg… just suggestions
May 5th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
@cbeloch: we had ‘hackathons’ in both San Francisco and London last year for just devs - this year, we hope we can squeeze some time in for users to join us. Might be worth the journey for that! I’m planning one in London for late summer.
May 5th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Moocylons!
May 5th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
As per the growing numbers of tech and Web companies cropping up in New York City, I’d like to see Silicon Alley represented as well. Any chance of that happening?
May 5th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
A meetup in Melbourne Australia would be nice :D
May 6th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Goes without saying since I’m a part ofthe BayArea MooTools Meetup group, but I’ll be attending that one. :D
May 6th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Warning: Garrick has failed the automata screening process.
May 9th, 2010 at 2:17 am
I’ve been working on this Mootools Turing test class.. ;)
Is there enough of us to arrange a Mootools Meetup in Jerusalem?
May 9th, 2010 at 7:01 am
or how about a meetup on mars! shouldn’t be that far for the moo-crowd.
May 9th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Wish there was one on the east coast. NYC maybe.
May 10th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Hope you make it up to the Seattle area sometime, I would definitely attend!
May 11th, 2010 at 5:49 am
Who’s up for a Cape Town, South Africa, meetup? :D
May 11th, 2010 at 11:57 am
And Chicago! I could bring likely bring 2-4 other folks from my agency.