Warner Onstine proposed :

Awhile ago I tried to get a little code sprint going on for people interested in learning Tapestry and maybe creating something useful. I would like to remold these into strictly learning sessions that we do maybe every other month or every 3 months and keep the sessions closer to 3-4 hours. The goal of these sessions would be to learn from each other, in fact none of us may be familiar with the technologies at hand, but its an opportunity to beat your head against a wall with a group of people.

Topics of Interest

• Lucene - http://lucene.apache.org
• Ruby on Rails - http://rubyonrails.com
• Ruby - http://ruby.org
• Python - http://python.org
• TurboGears (python web framework gaining some mindshare) - http:// www.turbogears.org/
• Ajax - uhh, all over the place
• SOA - kinda general Web Services stuff, not sure exactly what we would investigate
• C#
• Objective-C
• Flex - http://labs.macromedia.com/
• Laszlo - http://openlaszlo.org
• ActionScript 3.0 - strong typing and E4X