[LRUG] May Meeting - Specifics

Stephen Bartholomew steve at curve21.com
Thu May 3 02:07:31 PDT 2007


I'm up for mentoring too if you need any more.

Steve


On 3 May 2007, at 07:10, Peter Jones wrote:

> Thanks Paul - I'll add your name as a mentor.
>
> Regards,
> Peter.
> --- Paul Ardeleanu <pardel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Please add my name to the end of the list of
>> mentors. I was a bit
>> reluctant to put my name forward as I do not work
>> full time with
>> Ruby/RoR (yet) but I'll do my best.
>>
>> BTW, for beginners I can recommend the sitepoint
>> book
>> (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/). I'm half
>> way through it and,
>> even with some mistakes/things not explained
>> properly, it is still a
>> good and easy to read/browse book.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 02/05/07, Peter Jones <peterbjones at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Muz,
>>>
>>> Here are the results of the request for Mentors
>>> /Mentorees with an indication if they are more
>>> interested in Ruby or RoR.
>>>
>>> Potential Mentors:
>>> 1. Murray Steele
>>> 2. James Adam
>>> 3. Eleanor (Ruby)
>>> 4. Anthony Green*
>>>
>>> Mentorees
>>> 1. Suw Charman (RoR plus some basic Ruby)
>>> 2. Peter Jones (RoR plus some basic Ruby)
>>> 3. Ed Davey (Ruby and possibly some RoR)
>>> 4. Eran Ben Shabbat (RoR in order to learn Ruby)
>>> 5. Alex Pounds (RoR)
>>> 6. Anthony Green*
>>>
>>> Note *Anthony Green is prepared to be a mentor,
>> but
>>> would like to be mentored too if possible. He
>>> indicated he was happy to get Ruby/Rails beginners
>> up
>>> and running.
>>>
>>> I don't know how you want to match people up. One
>>> option would be for us to break into a smaller
>> group
>>> towards the end of the LRUG meeting, explain to
>> each
>>> other where we are with Ruby/RoR, and then see
>> what
>>> the mentors think would be appropriate.
>>>
>>> As there are less mentors it may be worth
>> requesting
>>> at the beginning of the LRUG meeting if any other
>>> people would like to be mentors too.
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>> --- Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> The next meeting will be on the 14th of May.
>> It's
>>>> become a obvious that the
>>>> idea of a beginners session is a good one, but
>> also,
>>>> a tad unspecific as
>>>> everyone has different needs, and hence a little
>>>> difficult to stage.
>>>> However, what has come out of this discussion is
>> the
>>>> idea of mentoring so
>>>> we'll use the meeting to match up mentors and
>>>> mentorees, and give them some
>>>> time towards the end of the meeting to have a
>> chat
>>>> about how they want to
>>>> run things.  I hope this lack of a proper
>> session
>>>> isn't too disappointing to
>>>> any beginners.
>>>>
>>>> As the mentor match up clearly won't take up the
>>>> whole evening, I've a
>>>> couple of other things up my sleeve:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Dan Webb has offered to do a talk about
>> OpenID.
>>>> OpenID was quite the hot
>>>> thing on the blogosphere a couple of months ago,
>> but
>>>> it seems to have died
>>>> down now (or maybe I read the wrong blogs),
>> perhaps
>>>> Dans' talk will get it
>>>> all fired up again.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Ben Griffiths has offered to solidify some of
>> his
>>>> comments about REST vs
>>>> SOAP from the REST discussion we had last month.
>>>>
>>>> 3. We've still got bits of code lying around
>> that
>>>> people submitted for the
>>>> code review a couple of months ago.  We could go
>>>> over one of them too.
>>>>
>>>> Clearly 'less is more' so I'm not suggesting we
>> do
>>>> all 3 of these, have
>>>> people any preference or alternatives?
>>>>
>>>> Muz
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