You're quite possibly right about the group - i'm very nearly 40 now and well into my post-charismatic phase. There's 8 members in MXUG<http://groups.google.com.au/group/mxug>so far (solely from this ruby list). I still think people might be pretty keen on it though if publicised on some other lists - surely Brent, Mike, Korny and I are not the only people in the world that want to hear people deliver short focused talks about weird stuff like clojure, lift, ioke, haskell, potion, factor ... Regardless, I certainly do care about the ruby group and have every intention of trying to contribute my ruby and non ruby insights (for what they're worth). It seems perfectly reasonable to present stuff like jquery, silverlight, flex etc. to the ruby group but wouldn't presentations on django, wicket, lift, spring etc. be a little incongruous/irrelevant?
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Nathan de Vries <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/02/2009, at 12:47 PM, Mark Ryall wrote: > > For a while, i've been thinking of trying to kick off a more > > nebulous user group in Melbourne that has a much less specific > > technical focus - kind of like a monthly barcamp with lightning > > talks only (maximum 15 minutes). > > > The groups exist, don't build another. Apply the advice on shipping > software from Getting Things Done to shipping your ideas to your > Melbourne group. I might be wrong and you may get an influx of people > to your "MXUG" list, but my bet is no-one cares about your group. What > they *do* care about is your Ruby/non-Ruby technical insights, so > share them at your next meeting. If the Melbourne group is anything > like the Sydney & Brisbane Ruby folk, they'd lap it up. > > > Cheers, > > Nathan de Vries > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
