[LRUG] It begins!

[Peter Jones]

Hi All,

In order to assess if there is enough demand to
justify matching up potential mentors/mentorees at the
next LRUG meeting please could people indicate if:

1. They would like to be a mentor, or a mentoree
2. They are more focused on Ruby or Rails.

If we do go ahead with this I think it is important
that that the mentors get as much out of the
experience as possible. Hopefully it will be possible
to match them up with people and projects/applications
that they will find interesting. First we need to find
out how many people want to participate...

Peter.

--- 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...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Alex Pounds (Creature)                  .~.
> > > http://www.alexpounds.com/
> > >                                         /V\
> > > http://www.ethicsgirls.com/
> > >                                        // \\
> > > "Variables won't; Constants aren't"   /(   )\
> > >                                        ^`~'^
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