Beer and Scripting SIG (BASS)

This Special Interest Group (SIG) began as the fallback meeting format for the San Francisco Perl User Group (SFPUG). If no speaker was available, we simply called a meeting of the "Beer and Pizza SIG" and went off for chow and conversation. However, as SFPUG became successful at finding speakers, the SIG started to languish.

Because I still wanted to Get Out Of The House on occasion, I decided to loan the SIG to the Bay Area Rubyists, who didn't have any meetings of their own. Of course, Perlies were still quite welcome to attend.

However, the local Rubyists now have several active groups. So, I decided to open things up to anyone who is interested in scripting languages, agile software development, etc.

These certainly include well-known languages such as Bash, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, and arguably include Comet, CSS, D, Groovy, Haml, JavaScript, JSON and YAML, Loom, MQL, SQL, and language families such as Lisp, Smalltalk, TeX, and XML. In short, our criteria are pretty loose...

In the spirit of Bay Area Debian's SHOTGUN RULES FOR BAD MEETINGS, I just announce each meeting and wait to see who shows up. No program; just a way for folks to get together, munch, and chat about scripting (or whatever :-).