The North Oakland meetups are soon shutting down, as attendance has dropped significantly and there are plenty of other weekly opportunities in the area.

This week's topic is Reading & Discussion. We'll select interesting blog posts or articles at the meetup itself, then read them and discuss. Please come with articles you want to discuss!

(Suggestions gathered in this Google doc; feel free to add some even if you're not coming!)

About the Meetup

The North Oakland meetup is intended as a fun, low-key social space with some structured interaction, where new and non-new community members can mingle and have interesting conversations. Everyone is welcome, and RSVPs are never required.

We meet every Wednesday in Oakland at 6:15, with a rotating variety of topics but don't generally start the meetup topic until 6:45-7:00 to accommodate stragglers, and even later arrivals are also welcome.

We explicitly encourage people to split off from the main conversation or diverge from the topic if that would be more fun for them (moving side conversations into a separate part of the space if appropriate). Meetup topics are here as a tool to facilitate fun interaction, and we certainly don't want them to inhibit it.