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

[James Adam]

Hi all,

Richard has emailed me to ask if anyone is interested in speaking at
their evening (see below). As yet, nobody has expressed any interest
in speaking to the BCS, but here are the updated details that he's
passed along to me:

"I dropped you a line at the beginning of the month regarding an event
I am organising for the BCS on Thursday the 13th of September - a sort
of 'state of the nation' talk on modern programming and scripting
languages.

"I feel that Ruby is an interesting language and I would very much
like the members of my branch of the BCS to be made (more) aware of.

"FYI Ian Cooper, Founder of the London .NET User Group (DNUG), Peter
Pilgrim, Founder of the Java Web User Group (JAVAWUG) and Chester
Chipperfield, Organiser of the London Flex User Group, have agreed to
take part."

As I mentioned before, you'd be expected to spend a few minutes (10
max I think) talking about Ruby (why you like it, probably some time
talking about the appeal of Rails, and so on), and then I'm guessing
it will develop from there. And, as I said at the end of the last LRUG
meeting, this is a golden networking opportunity for anyone who wants
to be approached for Ruby/Rails work.

I'd love to be able to go back to Richard with a few contact emails
for people who might be interested, so please do send me an email
(james.adam at gmail.com) if you can help out.

Thanks again,

James


On 8/6/07, James Adam <james.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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