It would be nice to have a meetup where local (and smaller) organizations building open-source Java projects or products come present what they're doing. The Meeting community could vote ahead of time on which projects they'd like to see, and the format could be:

1) Top 4 organizations/people get to present, based on votes on the Meetup board. Organizers picks 4 orgs one week before the meetup.
2) Each presenter gets 10 minutes for demo and description and 5 minutes for Q&A.
3) Final 15 minutes is a group Q&A for all participants

I used to live in New York and there was a community of flash developers there who did a similar type of format and it was very interesting to see what's going on in the developer eco-system.

- Art

jclouds makes accessing cloud data and provisioning clusters easy. Examples will include hadoop and website provisioning, and clojure repl access to cloud resources such as EC2, Azure, and Rackspace. You should come to this meetup with a basic understanding of the cloud and services like S3 and EC2.

Jruby, Jython, Scala, Groovy, and other JVM scripting languages offer potentially large increases in productivity. They also offer an interesting mix of pluses and minuses. Would be great to get an overview with code and compiling examples.

A meetup with the Grails team to review and compare to other Java frameworks. Compare to Rails as well.