[This is also posted to the event page at <http://pdxruby.org/events/
show/6>.]
Chris meta-presented his P8 presentation tool, an extension S5 with
additions for collaboration. This was a loosely coupled,
multidimensional talk combining Japanese linguistics, poetry, and
Chris's impressions of Canada on Rails. Chris was impressed by
several presentations at the conferences which called for "less is
more," but was worried about the "guild/wizard" factor entering the
Ruby community. He also wished the "back-channel" IM/IRC chatting to
be better integrated into the actual presentations -- and has
wonderfuly built that feature into P8. Folks were impressed by
Chris's work, and offered several suggestions.
Brendan asked whether there were any regular "hang-out" places where
Ruby people gathered. Several places were mentioned; however, this
scribe forgot to write them down. Perhaps those who had suggestions
could post them to the list.
Folks chatted about alternate framework code like Camping and
Markaby, but found they weren't so useful for production apps. Erik
mentioned Mollio, which does a lot of the CSS work for you.
John described the short meeting of the FOSCON/OSCAMP planning
hoedown. The group is still brainstorming on the type of talks/
performances that we want to encourage at the evening party. It was
pretty well accepted that pdx.rb will be working under the umbrella
of the OSCAMP folks to do Ruby-specific stuff onsite at OSCON, as
well as promoting cross-collaboration, like network games or robots
tournaments. We'll get together next month for more discussion.
Ben talked about Ruby quizzes. He described some of the potential
projects, including his work on anti-cheating the cheater in the rock-
paper-scissors quiz. Folks are encouraged to participate in future
quiz work; they should post their idea to the mailing list and start
working on it next week in order to be done by the next meeting.
Toph suggested a presented on the DL module that let's you use the
dynamic linker from Ruby; maybe he'll do it next month?
Caleb talked about the website hackfest that occurred last Tuesday at
the Lucky Lab. Many good changes were committed, including unit
tests by Keegan. Next Thursday at 7pm there will be more hacking,
and people should attend and improve the website!
Erik announced he will be doing a presentation on his VectorSection
(was UberConverter) next Thursday at the Student Union at PSU (see
pdxlinux.org for details).
Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is looking for some help on a couple
of Rails projects he's working on.
John Wilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is looking for help on ExplainPMT
(explainpmt.com), an open-source project-management tool for extreme
programming.
--John
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