[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

[Gavin Bell]

Actually this feels like a bit of a in london / out of london spat,  
which happen everywhere.  (L)RUG feels like a proximity thing,  
growing out of Rob's companies boardroom IIRC and then spreading word  
of mouth to local friends.

I'd suggest sending out the ANN messages to ruby-talk, but  
encouraging the vocal north of England posse to setup their own  
thing.  We're not that special in London, there are smart people in  
the Manchester / Nottingham / Liverpool area.   We can have a pan uk  
RUG, but it it spins out of LRUG then it will continue to annoy the  
less well represented people from the rest of England.

It is a simple cause and effect of geography, there are a lot of  
geeks in London, enough that "new" technology user groups happen  
there first.

cheers
Gavin

On 27 Oct 2006, at 10:19, Murray Steele wrote:

> Is anyone following the "Chunky Bacon" / "Potential Brit ruby  
> meeting formally Chunky Bacon" threads on ruby-talk? They are being  
> all mean about LRUG being a "stealth" group (relevant bit from ruby- 
> forum: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/86060).  Tom has been kind  
> enough to jump in and defend the LRUG honour, but one message in  
> particular ( http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/86060#159196) got me  
> thinking.
>
> Perhaps in the interest of un-stealthing we should send out [ANN]  
> messages for LRUG meetings to the ruby-talk list?  Every other RUG  
> seems to do it (and some even seem to use ruby-talk as their own  
> chat at lrug.org style list) so it's not like we'd be out of place.
>
> Muz
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