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BTVWAG Survey Results - March 2012

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Have you ever attended a meet up?

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Would you attend a drink up?

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Would you read a newsletter?

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Interested in a Ruby conference?

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What is your primary dev. role?

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What language(s) do you use?

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How do you store data?

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Do you practice TDD/BDD?

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Ever contributed to open source?

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Version control systems

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What is your primary dev. OS?

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How big is your dev. team?

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How much dev. do you outsource?

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Future Topic Suggestions ● Beer ● Specific languages ● Scaling ● SignalR ● Node ● Deployment ● Emerging Technologies ● Non-relational Databases ● QA tools ● Sinatra ● JQuery + others ● HTML5 ● Drupal ● IaaS, PaaS ● DDD ● Contributing to open source ● Case studies ● Hiring developers ● Hosting

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What would you change in BTV? ● Nothing! ● More developers doing ● Better salaries ● More open source developers ● More user groups and events ● Hack ups ● Local training classes ● Improved skill level ● More geek ● More support for women ● More profitable startups ● Improve entry into web scene for newcomers to BTV

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● Twitter ● RSS Feeds ● VtDotNet ● MSDN ● A List Apart ● Working on OSS ● Railscasts ● Smashing Mag. ● Mailing lists & specialized groups ● Blogs ● Friends ● Stackoverflow ● codeproject ● infoq.com ● Slashdot ● Forums ● SitePoint & Digital Point ● Hacker News ● Coding Horror ● Mozilla Sources for staying up to date

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Other takeaways ● Expand BTVWAG outside Burlington ○ Record presentations ○ Take notes ● Meet on different days of the week ● MOAR beer & drink ups ● Launch BTVWAG newsletter