[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

[Murray Steele]

I'm not trying to be precious about LRUG.  I can't see why anyone would try
to come from Manchester to London when they could start a MRUG instead.

I was more concerned with the accusation that somehow LRUG was stealthy and
secret and that because of this maybe some London-based Rubyists were
unaware of our existence.

The politics of the North / South divide never even occurred to me, probably
'cos I'm Scottish so I think about a completely different North and South.


On 27/10/06, Gavin Bell <gavinbell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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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