[LRUG] Stealth Group!?

[Geir Freysson]

Hello everyone.

I recently moved to London but have been aware of LRUG pretty much
since starting using Ruby.

A google search for "ruby user group" shows mentions of LRUG in
results 4-6, which is how I found it originally. If that is stealth
mode, it's not very successful :)

On another note, searching for "ruby user group" from the Icelandic
version of Google turns up different results... I guess the Norwegian
Ruby user group isn't in stealth mode either.

Cheers,
Geir.

On 10/27/06, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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