[LRUG] It begins!

[Murray Steele]

It doesn't seem to me that we've quite reached a consensus on what people
actually want from a beginners session.

The options so far have been:

1. Small groups of beginners (new to programming, new to ruby etc...) going
over some kind of formal tutorials
2. Small groups of beginners having informal Q&A type sessions
3. People bringing code / ideas to the meeting and getting feedback on these
4. Using the meeting to arrange pairing up beginners with mentors for
sessions not part of the LRUG meetings.

I think that's all the suggestions so far, but I could be wrong.  Given that
most of these would require some work on the part of the mentors/group
leaders (e.g. preparing a tutorial) or the beginners (e.g. background
reading, preparing some code to bring) we should probably firm up which of
these options we actually want to do.  We can easily do more than one as
they're not all that different; my separation of them was a tad arbitrary.

We'll want to think about how best to run the meeting too.  Will the
beginner groups need tables, a flip chart, projector etc...?  Perhaps a
separate room, as there may be another talk or discussion going on that
would distract from the knowledge sharing.  Note, I've no idea if Skills
Matter can accommodate this, I'm just thinking out loud

Cheers,

Muz


On 18/04/07, Peter Jones <peterbjones at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, what I meant was "What would we need to do
> to start off a mentoring scheme?" rather than trying
> to get people to post questions to the list.
>
> If people who would like to be mentored brought their
> applications/ideas into the next LRUG meeting it would
> give potential mentors a chance to see what they were
> doing, and talk to the person, to see if they would
> like to mentor them. Would that be a good first step?
>
> I would be happy to compile a list of mentors and
> mentorees(?). We could meet before the main meeting or
> (probably better) in the pub afterwards to match
> people up.
>
> --- Alex Pounds <alex at alexpounds.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, April 18, 2007 12:34 pm, Peter Jones wrote:
> > > I have always decided against posting questions on
> > > this list as I don't feel it would be appropriate.
> > > What would we need to do to start this off?
> >
> > Well, to try and hit both points ("What Rails stuff
> > would members like to
> > cover?" and "Could someone ask some questions to the
> > list?") I present a
> > couple of issues I'm looking at in my current Rails
> > project(s).
> >
> > 1. I want to let people tag stuff in my app. There
> > are at least 3 tagging
> > solutions out there: acts_as_taggable,
> > acts_as_taggable on steroids, and
> > has_many_polymorphs. Which should I use and why?
> >
> > 2. I want to start letting people upload photos to
> > the project. What should
> > I use and why?
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I know the answers to these, and the
> > implementation details
> > are covered in the docs for the relevant parts, but
> > it might be a good
> > starting point - especially as both of these things
> > are fairly common parts
> > of websites and don't get any coverage in the
> > beginner's books...
> >
> > --
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