[LRUG] It begins!

[Suw Charman]

I'd be particularly interested in options 1 or 4, as i'm not really
advanced enough for 2 or 3.

Suw

On 4/26/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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