<story><title>The Great Code Club</title><url>http://www.greatcodeclub.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asgard1024</author><text>Neat, but I would prefer something similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. A self-support group for people who already have personal projects, want to work on them, but are either lazy or procrastinating or paralyzed by analysis.&lt;p&gt;Although I would probably not pay money for either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zenbowman</author><text>This is exactly what we had going on with our CS reading group in LA - csrg.org&lt;p&gt;It worked a little too well, all of us got new and better jobs, and we&amp;#x27;re no longer close enough geographically to continue at the same rate as before.&lt;p&gt;The perils of success!</text></comment>
<story><title>The Great Code Club</title><url>http://www.greatcodeclub.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asgard1024</author><text>Neat, but I would prefer something similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. A self-support group for people who already have personal projects, want to work on them, but are either lazy or procrastinating or paralyzed by analysis.&lt;p&gt;Although I would probably not pay money for either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yozhik</author><text>I had the exact same need, so I started a group with some coworkers to provide encouragement.  As people shifted jobs membership has expanded to include people at several companies.  We get together every other Tuesday and hack on projects, drink beer and network.</text></comment>