[LRUG] Your Winter LRUG

[Murray Steele]

Hey all,

Winter: December, January, February.  What a desolate time.

Well you need fear no longer, there are plans for a ray of LRUG light in
each of these blighted months.  Huddle round this email, quiet your
jabbering and I shall tell you of these plans.

December!

We will meet on Monday 10th December and be thrice blessed by talks:

1. Frederick Cheung will tell us about "Going Native", by which he means:
FFI and C extensions.
2. Joel Chippindale will regale us with his gripping tale: "My tests run
faster than your tests".
3. Claudio Ortolina is going to show us Hermes: a vim/tmux environment for
Ruby and Javascript.

Frederick's talk will be a long one, Claudio and Joel will present shorter
talks.

You can register here:
http://skillsmatter.com/event-details/home/london-ruby-december, read more
here: http://lrug.org/meetings/2012/11/28/december-2012-meeting/, and tell
people about it here: http://lanyrd.com/2012/lrug-december

January!

We're scheduled to meet on Monday, January 14th and as this meeting will be
6th anniversary of me talking over organisation duties on LRUG I though
what better way to celebrate than to replicate the first one I ran (way
back in January 2007).  Thus to ease us into 2013 I'm hoping to run a "Pub
Quiz" evening.

I say "Pub Quiz" because it won't be in a pub, it'll be in the Skills
Matter office (I'm too lazy to find a pub that might accommodate 100+ ruby
developers on a Monday eve).  It'll be a little bit pubby because I've got
prices from Skills Matter for getting some beers in.  It will definitely be
quite quizzy though because I'll write a quiz - probably with similar
rounds to the last one:
http://lrug.org/meetings/2006/12/07/january-2007-pub-quiz-meeting/.

I need your help though.  We need sponsors to pay for the drinks.  If you
or your company would be interested in paying for some drinks please get in
touch with me directly and I'll let you know the prices and such.  I'm also
hoping to scare up some prizes from Ruby-ish companies (Railscasts,
O'Reilly, Peepcode, etc...) - if you have any contacts that might help, do
let me know.  If you might be interested in providing a prize please do get
in touch about that too.

There are no details yet.  I'll write it up when it's more concrete.  If I
don't get enough sponsors I'll run a normal meeting (and weep uncontrolably
during the Q&A).

February!

Lightning Talks, innit?

As usual we'll do our 20x20 routine in Feb, so I'll be looking for between
8 and 10 speakers to give lightning talks.  You must know the drill by now;
20 slides that auto transition after 20seconds, giving you 6 minutes and 40
seconds in which to make your point.  It's always a fun night and it's a
good format for getting your feet wet as a speaker.  Although you do have
to prepare in advance (and you really must rehearse), I think that the
constraints really help with how you write and structure the talk.

Get your thinking caps on and expect more info after the Jan meeting.  The
meeting should be on Monday, 11th February.

March!

Wait, that's Spring.  Ignore this section.

Cheers,

Murray
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