Some basic ideas for the "virtual book club" that was pitched earlier. All are open to discussion.

Virtual Book Club

Name:
We may want to pick something just so that we have a unique identifier 
we can use on the interwebs.

Focus:
We're mostly coders, so it makes sense that we'd have a focus on comp sci 
and programming related books. I don't know that we necessarily need to 
stay there, though. There are plenty of other books - fiction and non - that 
the group as a whole might be interested in reading and discussing. To that 
end, I don't think it's necessary to create an explicit scope.

Chosen books:
Books should be freely recommended but carefully selected. Probably a vote 
from members indicating which books they would most enjoy discussing (note 
that "enjoy reading" and "enjoy discussing" aren't necessarily the same).

Tools:

- Real-time discussion: IRC, campfire, holla... something like this. 
Also, potentially Skype. We'll be using the real-time tool(s) to handle 
actual meetings of the group.

- Asynchronous discussion: Probably some kind of forum or mailing list. 
Used for suggesting/voting on books, off-topic conversation, ongoing 
discussions, or anything else that wouldn't be carried on over the course 
of a normal meeting.

- Github account: For code. 
Share/extend/enjoy code that other members are working on as we go through
various books. Also a good place to keep any inspired projects, in the event
that we get bit by that bug at some point.