Ivan welcome to the NYC Location Tech Meetup (I see we're both members of NYC Scala 8-)). When you get a chance RSVP for the 1/8/2013 meetup, and also let your circle know about us! Thanks!
No libraries, no frameworks, no shortcuts - this group focuses on core JavaScript. Here we will address different low-level JS issues such as code excerpts, performance, paradigms, etc that can be applied anywhere including building new libraries or improve existing ones.
We will steer clear from having presentations of frameworks written using JavaScript as there are enough meetups for that purpose. Our goal is to engineer solutions to complex problems and present our findings in core JavaScript that can then be used anywhere.