A book club. Where we sit in a circle and read out loud, chapter by chapter, the C Programming Language, 2nd Edition. And at the end of each session we stand up and call out names of Open Source and Free Software written in C without which our modern society wouldn't run. Dress code: 1970s.
After the reading session we gather for food and drinks in a room full of whiteboards (no computers!) where we discuss what we heard. With real code printed out from the projects we named.
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You can join at any time. You can go at any time. You can stay just for the reading (which will be without interruptions, no discussions, no questions). Guest speakers that wrote the code on the whiteboards and printouts. Birds of a feather, lightning talk style. No fundamental discussions. Just celebrating the language and the code in an open and inviting way. It could actually work :)
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@jwildeboer After which you retire to a bar and argue about how to interpret the standards and whose code is compliant.
It would be like a religious meeting - read from the old, apocrypha, or new testament, followed by a long missing the point and futile argument about semantics.
Jan Wildeboer 😷
The Penguin of Evil