Re. guidance (both for juniors, and seniors moving into the Ruby / Rails space) perhaps we could try a community-driven talk?
What I suggest is that I'll create a separate thread, and people can post suggestions of things *they'd* like to see explained and demonstrated in more detail. Presenters could then choose to pick a topic that's been requested, and address it at a suitable level (e.g. introductory if it's a junior dev asking about TDD, in-depth if a senior dev asking about profiling & performance tuning). Focus should be on practical examples and real-world tales of success and failure. That could help everyone; not only would it be a great way of ensuring people learn what they're wanting to learn by attending RoRo, it'd be a challenge to those wanting to level up in particular topics in order to present. If we go ahead with this idea we should probably announce it at this month's RoRo first, as I'm not sure what proportion of attendees (esp. juniors) are on this list. ... Also, another thought I've had for a while is that it's much easier to raise your profile if you enjoy (or at least can tolerate) talking infront of large groups like RoRo. We're perhaps inadvertently creating a culture in which extroverts have a much easier time finding work than introverts. What if we ran a workshop on presentation skills? We could do it over the course of a couple of evenings at Inspire9, maybe as a relatively small group. The aim would be to help people build the skills and confidence to present at RoRo - maybe once the workshop was over, if there was sufficient interest, we could run a "new presenters evening" where attendees could present? I think we'd need a couple of volunteer coaches for that one, at least ... I'm happy to pitch in but people should always take presentation advice with a pinch of salt when it's from someone who wears toe shoes and thinks Emacs is a perfectly acceptable slideshow tool :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
