What about a "Ruby woo-me" night. Instead of helping the newbies, help convince those who aren't even newbies... the fence sitters who are looking for reasons to just their feet wet.
I, for one, would show off the irb (and the Rails console). Justin On 16/01/2009, at 10:08 AM, Ben Schwarz wrote: > > Pete, > > Some questions I'd like to raise: > > I'd wonder where the demand for a Ruby Nuby night is coming from? > Are there lots of people who really want to get into Ruby? > > How / Are 'nuby' sessions run for other frameworks / concepts / > languages? > > Due to the size of the Ruby community here in Melbourne, its somewhat > of a `clicky` group, > it might be worth making an effort to branch out to newer members. > Perhaps in more of a social environment? > > Planning very far ahead for talks can be difficult as with the nature > of OSS and Github, focus is tending to move more quickly. > However, the same people are talking time and time again, can we come > up with some 'no pressure' way of nominating talks? > Asking the group for something, then having a presenter put themselves > up for it? > > Just some ideas to get the ball rolling. > > I think that there _is_ a fair amount of innovation occuring within > the _toolset_ space that we're utilising, > Rack, Rack::Cache, Merb/Rails, Sinatra and ORM's that aren't > ActiveRecord. > I'm thoroughly enjoying the visibility that can be achieved with > Github, its improved many facets of OSS. > > Cheers, > > Ben > > Pete Yandell wrote: >> A few of us (myself, Mike Bailey, Ryan Allen, and Nick Marfleet) got >> together at SCT on Monday night, to plan another Ruby Nuby Night. We >> bounced around some ideas, and started making a list of topics worth >> including. >> >> As we were doing it, we realised something: we're not nearly as >> excited as we were 18 months ago (when the last Nuby Night was held) >> about what's happening in the Ruby space, or about working with Ruby. >> We feel like things have flattened out, there's less interesting >> innovation going on, and there are even a few potential shark-jumps >> happening. >> >> That said, there's still a lot of cool stuff out there, and we all >> think the roro community is full of amazing people. Given it's the >> start of a new year, now seems a good time to take stock, and harness >> the brains of those amazing people to work out how we can keep >> everyone involved and excited this year. >> >> So, for the next Melbourne meeting, we're only going to have one >> speaker, and I want to spend the rest of the time having a meta- >> discussion about the state of the Ruby world, and about the Melbourne >> roro group. >> >> I'm setting you all some homework in preparation for the meeting. >> Please come along having thought about the following things: >> >> 1. What do you think are the best things (products, tools, ideas, or >> anything else) to come out of the Ruby world in the past couple of >> years? >> >> 2. What are the most exciting and inspiring things you've come across >> in the past couple of years? This can be Ruby or non-Ruby, techie or >> non-techie...anything that's got you excited and motivated. >> >> 3. What are the up-and-coming things you're excited about this year? >> >> If you have any general thoughts about how we can improve the group, >> please bring those along too. >> >> (And feel free to discuss all this on the list in the meantime.) >> >> - Pete > > --- Justin French [email protected] http://justinfrench.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
