On 5/2/07, Bob Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I missed the meeting last night - I looked at the web site, but was > not quite aware of this mailing list yet.
I've been sick for the last couple of days, and haven't been up-to-date on list traffic, but I would like to put out a request to the list membership at large: if you plan an event through an alternate channel (list, face-to-face, tcp/ip-over-pigeons, whatever) can you *please* go ahead and post it to the website? There are a handful of ways to find the mailing list, but *tons* of Google juice for the main pdxruby.org site, which makes it by far the easiest way for new people to find out what's going on. Plus, having a regular stream of new and recent events show up on the website shows that we're actually doing stuff, which further encourages participation. (Okay, I'll take my marketing hat off now.) Regardless, welcome, Bob. > I am new to ruby and would > like to have some opportunity to chat with folks about a number of > things. Is there any chance that anyone(s) is up for getting a beer > somewhere? Also I am going up to Seattle next week - I live in Gresham > work in Kent. So I am thinking of going to the weekly hackfest up > there. Has anyone gone to that? I don't know how many PDX.rb folks have made the trek to Seattle for their hackfest, but several of the Seattle Rubyists used to live in Portland, and there's a fair amount of cross-pollination of ideas and code between the two areas. > Would sending my questions to this list be a good way to start getting > some of my questions answered or would that be considered spaming this > list? If I get a positive response from someone I will send out a list > of questions that I hope spark a bit of a dialog. I noticed at least > one other newbie so maybe they will benefit as well. The list is one place to ask questions, as as you said, it does potentially benefit other folks who subscribe. I also can't recommend strongly enough the IRC channel: #pdxruby on irc.freenode.net -- the signal-to-noise ratio is quite good, and there are usually at least a handful of folks lurking who are willing to ask questions. (Also, since I'm offering the services of others, here, I guess it's about time for me to stop lurking there, as well.) -Lennon _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
