James Ward gave a great presentation on Heroku.  The server of choice for Facebook developement.  He commented on some attendees not being familiar with all the buzzwords he used.  So we thought of a Buzzword Bingo game. 

I think having a handout with the most common buzzwords especially any the speaker is likely to use would be useful.  I have always thought having a handout about the speaker and topic would be a good idea.  I have never had the time to actually create such a useful document though. 

Expand on this thought a bit to make it fun.  Create a bingo card with each square being a likely buzzword.  Include in the square a definition of the word.  Hand out pennies as bingo tokens.  As the attendees hear each buzzword they cover the box with a penny.  First one to bingo gets a prize. 

The card gives the attendees something to refer to to help them figure out what the speaker is saying. 

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Comment by Michael Levin on February 24, 2012 at 10:01am

What a great idea, Dan. Maybe we can do this at the next GatorJUG meeting.

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

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