I really like how you're opening the group up to talking about interests outside Ruby as well as Ruby for a bit. It's real spicy ;-) Particularly because there are some interesting interests within the group.
After all computers are intended to support human interests ultimately (IMHO -hope that doesn't make me sound like a freak!). Point is; who knows what sort of inspiration we might find from a broader range of topics. (computing being the common denominator) Today I'm interested in: Any discussion that alters my perspective. A talk on TDD/BDD or testing-best practices for a beginner. (oh the shame!;) I also like dogs. Also I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better and meeting new people. I think I've found myself a new learner -he seems very keen to get back into programming and of course, I'm pushing all my biases on him so I'm hoping the n00b introductory events continue to happen. Oh *also*.. this is an interesting concept and sounds like fun - http://www.slash7.com/articles/2008/7/28/success-at-failcamp -Brodaigh On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Pete Yandell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 16/01/2009, at 10:08 AM, Ben Schwarz wrote: > > > 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? > > Based on last time, the demand was mostly people working in Java/C# > for corporates, who'd heard about this whole Ruby/Rails thing and were > keen to find out a bit about it. > > > How / Are 'nuby' sessions run for other frameworks / concepts / > > languages? > > No idea. Anyone? > > > 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? > > Yep. Suggestions? > > > 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? > > I think nominating wanted topics for talks and finding speakers to > talk on them is a great idea. > > It might let us broaden the topic range too. For example, I'd love to > know a bit more about the database libraries from the Java world, > because I think that'd help me in Ruby. Getting a speaker in from a > Java group to talk about that would be great. > > Don't want to take away the chance for people to pimp stuff they're > building though, so people should still be able to talk if they're keen. > > - Pete > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
