[LRUG] May Meeting - Specifics

[Peter Jones]

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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