The document discusses the creation of virtual self-study groups to help address skills gaps. It proposes that groups choose a topic like a programming language and read a chapter from a textbook each week, completing exercises. This allows professionals to learn new skills at their own pace without scheduled meeting times. It provides examples of existing groups for PHP, jQuery, and HTML5. Finally, it lists the top 20 in-demand web technologies in Boston as identified by Indeed.com to suggest topics the groups could study.