Inaugural Seattle Node.js Meetup!

Welcome, everybody, to Seattle Node.js!

In the last 10 days days our group has gone from non-existence with 0 members to almost 100, and is still growing. We're super excited to see so much interest around node and to know we're satisfying a big demand, creating a group to help it grow even more in our own back yard. Special thanks to everyone who has offered to contribute, help host or organize. We'll be reaching out to you guys shortly.

Due to snow we've moved our inaugural meet up to next Thursday, Feb. 2nd @ 6:30pm, downstairs in The Easy @ TechStars in South Lake Union. The Easy is an enormous space that's designed specifically for events like these. There is wifi, a projector and stage, a sound system, plenty of table seating, and anything else you would need.

This group's purpose is furthering real use and real understanding of Node.js, for web development or however you want to use it. As such, meetings will be roughly half passive-learning/sharing and half get-your-hands-dirty-and-dive-into-the-code-with-others educational.

As this is the inaugural meet up we will briefly cover some node philosophy, do some environment setup for new folks and then take a brief look at some of the more interesting things people are doing with node in the wild. If you've got experience please join us so we can get everyone up and running as fast as possible and if you've got a cool project that you'd like to highlight let us know.

Once we've got that covered we'll break into some groups based on experience level and interest and try to get some great stuff cooking. Node newbies can work together to get a site up using Express. And, distributed node-heads can hack something out using Hook.io or otherwise work together on whatever they want.

If you would like to hop in front of a small crowd and talk for 15 minutes about something node-specific, contact us. And if you have any other suggestions on format or anything else, feel free to ping us as well.

Looking forward to learning and hacking with everyone!

Grant Goodale @ggoodale (http://twitter.com/ggoodale)
http://massivelyfun.com

Kav Latiolais @kavla (http://twitter.com/kavla)
http://giantthinkwell.com

Matt Walters @mattwalters5 http://gochime.com (http://gochime.com/)