[LRUG] April Meeting - 16th April - Lineup?

[Alec Ross]

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<21fc09790704030621l48dd0f08nf2b73b77cc80adbd at mail.gmail.com>, Murray 
Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> writes
>Here's a thought, how many other folk would be interested in a beginners
>session?  I'm not sure we've ever 'formally' gauged the skill levels in the
>group, so it's possible we're leaving folk behind.  We could easily do one
>next month if there was some interest, and, of course, someone willing to
>run it.
>
>What would people want from a beginners session? 
>
>Intro to programming or intro to ruby?
>Delve into the class library, or discuss some of the language tricks?
>Regular Expressions?
>Classes vs. Modules?
>Explanations of chunks of code you've seen?
>Other things?
>
>Muz
>
>
>On 03/04/07, Suw Charman <suw.charman at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Anyone willing to do a beginner's session? I realise I may be the only
>  person who would find that useful, though, but if anyone does fancy
>  spending a little time with me then there'll certainly be a pint or
>  two in it for them!!
>
>  Suw
>
>  On 4/2/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi again,
>  >
>  > As it's a bit closer to the 16th of April we should probably nail down
>  the
>  > contents of the meeting.  So, anyone any firmer on if they'll be
>  available
>  > or willing to do something?
>  >
>  > Muz
>  >
>  >
>  >  On 19/03/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Hi all,
>  > >
>  > > The April LRUG meeting will break from our 2nd Monday of the
>  month routine
>  > to avoid clashing with Easter Monday, and will be on the 16th of
>  April, not
>  > the 9th.  Jonathan Lim has created an Upcoming event for your
>  calendar
>  > subscription pleasure ( http://upcoming.org/event/165162/),
>  > but there's scant few details about content as yet.  Based on what's
>  > bubbling around the list we might have one or more of the following:
>  > >
>  > > * A discussion about REST (see this thread:
>  > http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2007-February/000916.html
>  > or this follow up one:
>  > http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2007-March/000981.html
>  > )
>  > > * Another round of code-review (people seemed keen on making
>  this a
>  > regular part of the meetings, and we didn't get through all the bits
>  > submitted)
>  > > * A talk about Lucene / Ferret / Solr (David Townsend put himself
>  forward
>  > for this)
>  > > * Something about RSpec (nobody really volunteered themselves
>  for this,
>  > but people seem interested and it's worth suggesting again just in
>  case)
>  > > * Paolo's talk about TabNav that we missed from February
>  (assuming he's
>  > still interested in giving it).
>  > >
>  > > Is there anything else?  Clearly we won't do everything in April, but
>  it's
>  > good to have options as they'll spill over into future meetings.
>  > >
>  > > There's good groundswell for the REST discussion, who wants to
>  be on the
>  > "panel" or host it?  Jonathan Leighton or Eleanor seem like ideal
>  candidates
>  > as you guys were the most vocal on those threads, is there anyone
>  else?
>  > >
>  > > Cheers,
>  > >
>  > > Muz
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
>  >
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