Hello everybody!
I promise this will be my last and only cross-posting to the two PDX
Ruby lists (I presume they're not quite consolidated yet)... my
apologies if this is annoying.
I've really enjoyed the conversations, meetings, and projects that
the PDX Ruby group has offered. It's been, and will continue to be, a
great Ruby resource for Portland.
Seems to me, though, that my goals, and the goals of some members,
are reaching beyond the boundaries of Ruby quite a bit. As has been
noted more than once on this list, the popularity of Rails has skewed
the group's membership and direction quite a bit. This kind of change
is inevitable, of course, but lately I've been thinking that Portland
would be better served by two parallel groups. PDX Ruby might better
retain its focus and harmony, IMHO, if there were also a Rails group.
So that's what I'm offering. A complementary group which will focus
on Rails (and Ruby by extension of course!), web applications and
services, AJAX technologies, enterprise architectures, larger-scale
development and deployment, patterns, refactoring, and the business
community. I am hoping that some folks will find it a useful addition
to Portland's resources.
Right now it's up and hosted with TextDrive. There's a mailing list
in place, please sign up for it if you're interested. We'll probably
plan meetings to complement the Ruby meetings, perhaps the third
Monday of the month or something like that, so that everyone has a
chance to enjoy both.
I am very much hoping that no-one in the group considers this a bad
thing, I really am. I sincerely believe that the goals of Rails
fanatics are quite different from Ruby lovers, and two groups will
turn out to be better than one. I am sure that there are many, many
ways that these two groups, the "twin quasars of Portland" if you
will, can make each other stronger and more relevant to their
membership.
So there you go. You can find the list by visiting pdxrails.org. I'd
love to hear everyone's thoughts, on either of the lists, or just
write to me directly.
Kindest regards,
Raymond
p.s. you can subscribe directly here:
http://lists.pdxrails.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxrails
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