[LRUG] Fwd: Joint event with the BCS, 13/9 or 19/9

[James Adam]

I've been contacted by Richard Tandoh of the British Computer Society
to see if anyone would be interested in giving them a short "sales
pitch" about Ruby/Rails as part of a "state of the union" event that
he's organising. When I say event, I think we're talking about an
evening meeting, and the talk would be around 10 minutes long.

Is anyone interested in doing this? If so, please let me know and I'll
pass your name on.

James

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Subject: Joint event with the BCS, 13/9 or 19/9
To: james.adam at gmail.com


James

I'm writing to you as I know you are active in LRUG.
If there is someone more suitable I should be
approaching, please let me know.

I'm a volunteer committee member for the North London
Branch (NLB, http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/) of the
British Computer Society (BCS).

I'm putting together a talk on either Thursday the
13th or Wednesday the 19th of September for BCS NLB
that we are calling 'Code IT'.  The idea is to have a
'state of the nation' talk about modern programming
and scripting languages such as .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP
and Flex/AIR/ActionScript/Flash.  Rather than get in
representatives from the vendors, the idea is to have
speakers from User Groups that are working with the
technologies.

The final format will largely be determined by the
number of speakers, but my current thought is that
each speaker will have the floor for 10-15 minutes to
give an overview of the current state of their
language, 'sell' the benefits, etc.  An hour will then
be spent taking questions from the audience.

The talk will start at 6.30pm and be held at the BCS
London office, just off the Strand.

As a starter, could you let me know:
a) your thoughts on the idea,
b) if you (or another member of the LRUG organising
team) would be interested in speaking,
c) if Thursday the 13th and/or Wednesday the 19th of
September would be convenient.

FYI Ian Cooper, Chair of the Dot Net User Group
(DNUG), has already agreed to take part.

Once I know who the speakers are, I'll arrange a
meeting to discuss how best to structure the event.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,
Richard Tandoh




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