Great list Mark, a wide range of interesting topics, and for different levels of people as well. I've taken the liberty of copying your lists to the RORO Sydney topic requests page too, as it was looking a little sparse, and there are some great ideas here in case we are stumped for topics too. http://wiki.rubyonrails.com.au/index.php/roro:Sydney_-_Topic_Requests
Cheers, Dave On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Mark Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to hear about > > Ruby > - rack and what can be done with that > - Australian ecommerce ruby integration > - ruby fibers > - other Ruby 1.9 stuff > - best practice for Rails Views - damn these things are brittle (at > least the way I do it!) > - IM integration with Ruby > - ruby and natural language processing > - Prawn pdf writer > - Talk on metaprogramming in ruby > - geospatial ruby > - Chef, Sprinkle, Deprec and Capistrano - ruby deployment and > management landscape - what to use and when? > > Not Ruby - but useful > - how to create your own startup - more than code > - cloudkit and/or couchdb and/or 10gen (schemaless datastores) > - browser Canvas layers and how to use them > - Usability - grids, fonts, layouts, colour > - caching strategies for high performance (not just rails, but ESI, > Squid, javascript for dynamic stuff, etc) > - how to tune a database > > What about how to pimp the Melbourne/Oceania crew. There are so many > good things coming out of here that it would be nice if there was a > brand that we used regularly (kinda like seattle.rb). Dunno what > peeps think about this. > > I'll stop now. > > Mark > > On Jan 14, 4:54 pm, Pete Yandell <[email protected]> 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
