Believe it or not, RIRUG is back in action and we will be holding our next meeting on Thursday, January 28, 2010.
Topics will most likely include Cerberus Continuous Integration and MongoDB.
We’ll meetup at the BatchBlue headquarters. BatchBlue is located at 131 Wayland Avenue, Providence RI.
You can show up anytime between 6-7 PM. Go to the side of the building and you will see some glass doors with a small BatchBlue sticker on them. Do not go to the top floor as that is Working Planet; BatchBlue is in the basement.
RIRUG Google Groups mailing list so we have a decent idea of how many folks to expect.
Hope to see you there, and thanks to BatchBlue for providing the space again.
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After some discussion, we will be having our first “hackfest” this coming Monday night, December 15.
We’ll meetup at the new BatchBlue headquarters. BatchBlue is located at 131 Wayland Avenue, Providence RI.
You can show up anytime between 6-7 PM. Go to the side of the building and you will see some glass doors with a small BatchBlue sticker on them. Do not go to the top floor as that is Working Planet; BatchBlue is in the basement.
There are no special details for the hackfest and just one simple rule: no “day-job” work allowed. Come and work on your own projects and scratch an itch. Bring your current Ruby, Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Python, Perl, or even Erlang project (.NET developers need not apply) to hack on with others. Have a hardware project you are working on, that’s cool too. Sick of coding and just want to hang, perfect.
If you do come, bring a few bucks for some chow as we hope to have pizza and drinks on-site. Please RSVP below in the comments or on the RIRUG Google Groups mailing list so we have a decent idea of how many folks to expect.
Hope to see you there, and thanks to BatchBlue for providing the space.
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We will not be having a formal RIRUG meeting for December. Several things just didn’t come together, mostly because of the busy holiday season, so we will not be having a formal meeting with presentations.
I do want to put the call out though to gauge interest in having a more informal “hackfest” type meetup for December. Just a time where we all can get together and work on some personal code and projects and just share ideas. No rules other than “no professional day job work allowed.”
If you are interested, please either leave a comment here or on the official RIRUG google group mailing list.
First of all, I want to thank everyone who showed out last night. We had a great turnout for the inaugural meeting and I’m looking forward to the future meetings. The next two months will be a bit difficult for meeting planning as I’m sure most everyone has plans for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. We may just try to do one meeting for Nov-Dec sometime in early December.
If you haven’t yet, please signup for the RIRUG Google Group mailing list. The mailing list is where most discussion regarding meeting planning will happen and is also a great place for you to stay in touch with the Ruby community here in RI. Use the mailing list as a way to pick each others brains on development issues, new ideas, and anything else that crosses your mind.
Thanks to Matt Gillooly for talking about his experience during RailsRumble2008 and the Twitter client they created, Twalala. I’ve embedded the Sinatra Presentation I gave last night below. You can also download the full presentation at SlideShare. If you have any questions about Sinatra or Haml just send a note to the mailing list.
I want to give another huge thanks again to Wayne Franklin for letting us use the beautiful OfficeLAB space last night to host our meeting. If you or someone you know is looking for some co-working office space or needs a conference room to use, please get in touch with Wayne and utilize the great location he has setup.
Thanks also to Addison-Wesley for sponsoring the meeting and providing us with some Ruby books and a conference pass to give away. For everyone who was at the meeting, you can take advantage off the $200 discount to the upcoming “Voices That Matter: Professional Ruby Conference” in Boston this Nov 17-20 by using code “PRJUSER” when you signup for a conference pass.
After much work by several people, we finally have an official date for the very first Rhode Island Ruby User Group meeting.
Monday, October 27, 2008 we will be holding the first meeting at OfficeLab in Providence, RI. OfficeLab is located at 170 Westminster St. in the old Federal Reserve building.
The meeting will run from roughly 6pm - 8pm but you can start showing up around 5:30.
Addison-Wesley has been very gracious in sponsoring the first meeting. We will have several books from their Professional Ruby Series to give away as well as discounts and a free pass to the upcoming Voices That Matter: Professional Ruby Conference in Boston this November.
If you haven’t yet, please join the RIRUG Google Group and participate in the discussions taking place there.
If you plan to attend the first meeting, please reply either here below or on the Google Group mailing list so we can properly anticipate how many will show up.
If you are interested in giving a short (or long) presentation at the first or any future meetings, please let me know as well so I can coordinate that with you.
Hope to see you all there!
In an effort to ease communication and planning, I’ve gone ahead and created a Google Group for our RUG. You can find it at http://groups.google.com/group/rirug.
If you are at all interested in attending the RIRUG meetings or just participating in some Ruby related chat with other Rhode Island developers, sign up and participate in the discussion via the website or mailing list.
We are hoping to plan and hold the first RI Ruby User Group sometime this October.
We still have a bit of work to do on the planning side - mainly lining up volunteers to speak and finding a date and location.
We’ll need a few people to volunteer to give a short talk or presentation since I haven’t been able to line a guest speaker up yet. The more volunteers the shorter everyone needs to talk. Maybe the first meeting can just be a simple “Drop your Pants” session where everyone gives a blitz talk on what projects they are currently working on??
Ideas? Comments? Suggestions?
Leave a comment if you are willing to give a talk and/or if you have any suggestions on a venue for the meetup.
Here is the original discussion thread on RI Nexus as well.
After a few posts back and forth on RINexus I hope that the first official Rhode Island Ruby User Group is about to form.
We are still in the very early stages and are mostly gauging interest in forming such a group here in the Ocean State. No official meeting place or dates have been made yet but this site will be updated as new details become available.