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

[Martin Sadler]

I'm happy to do something on Metaprogramming.

On 18 Jun 2007, at 10:17, Murray Steele wrote:

> 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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