[LRUG] Fwd: BOF sessions wih LRUG at No Fluff Just Stuff eXchange, London

[Murray Steele]

Sorry to keep banging on about this, but Skills Matter need to know by the
end of the week if we'll be running a BoF or not.  From the overwhelming
response I'm going to hazard a guess at not, but you never know.

Has anyone got any ideas about running a BoF for Java programmers interested
in Ruby.  I think Martin and James's ideas below were quite interesting, but
we'd need a few folk willing to give up an evening to do one of the
suggested lightning talks.  Any takers?

Cheers,

Muz

On 11/06/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a reminder about this.  If anyone has any ideas about running a BoF
> session, or taking part in it, grab me tonight.  Skills Matter want to know
> soonish if we want to be involved, so tonight's as good a night as any to
> suggest stuff.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Muz
>
> On 29/05/07, James Adam <james.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/29/07, Martin Sadler <mtsbtt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > I know there was a Rails track at QCon that was held a while back. For
> > those
> > > who attended
> > > what was the general consensus from Java developers on Ruby?
> >
> > My impression of the QCon audience was that it was comprised of people
> > who just wanted to know a bit more about Ruby, to see what all the
> > fuss was about.
> >
> > > My first thought is to have a panel of recent Java to Ruby converts
> > backed
> > > up by some
> > > more experienced Rubyists. We could then do a series of lightening
> > talks
> > > complimented
> > > with questions from the audience to the panel.
> >
> > This sounds like a good format to me. For the lightning talks, it
> > shouldn't be hard to do any of the following in 5 minutes:
> >
> > * Your First Rails App
> > * The Joy of Rake
> > * Here's the Skinny about RubyGems, Y'all
> > * "Metaprogramming Voodoo"
> >
> > .... basically any of these could be quick demos to be used as
> > starting points for questions and discussion.
> >
> >
> > --
> > * J *
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