[LRUG] April meeting idea: If you show me yours, I'll show you mine

[James McCarthy]

I would welcome it, breaks things up a little and makes it less  
reliant on people having to prepare a bunch of slides. What about the  
inverse of that too, how about the "I did this but it made me feel  
dirty, how would you do it differently"?

Maybe the latter is lends itself better to a smaller group though.

On 13 Mar 2008, at 13:52, Murray Steele wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I mentioned idea this to some people on Monday night and got a
> positive enough response that I'm opening it up to a wider audience.
>
> I figure that lots of people have probably written some code (be it
> gems, rails plugins, collections of rake tasks or little
> itch-scratcher scripts) that they're kinda proud of, but don't really
> want to pad out a 5-10 minute demo / show-off into one of our
> "traditional" 20-30 minute talks, so we never get to hear about it.
> As a community we're probably missing out on a lot of sweet ruby
> goodness because of that.
>
> It's also pretty clear that this would be a perfect opportunity for
> those showing off their code to find some help with the project, get
> some feedback or just hear some new ideas about extending it.
> Hopefully all this would help you make the final push towards
> thousands of folk typing gem install my-super-awesome-ruby-code.
>
> So, do people like the idea and, crucially, have something they could
> bring in for Show'n'Tell?
>
> We could fill a whole evening with 6 or so folk, or go half-and-half
> with ~3 of these "Show'n'Tell" things and 1 longer form talk.  It
> really depends if people are willing to offer up their nuggets of
> ruby.
>
> Of course, if anyone has something they *do* want to talk about for
> longer, please do volunteer.
>
> Muz
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