[LRUG] It begins!
Suw Charman
suw.charman at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 03:12:41 PDT 2007
I am totally still interested, yes.
1. I would like to be an mentoree. (sounds like a sort of strange
mythical dragon)
2. I'd be a bit more interested in Rails, but I think I also need some
basic Ruby instruction.
Suw
On 4/28/07, Peter Jones <peterbjones at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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