[LRUG] May Meeting - Specifics

[Paul Ardeleanu]

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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>
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