[LRUG] February Meeting - Details

[Richard Livsey]

You spelled my name wrong, but apart from that it all looks good ;o)

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Richard Livsey
Head of Technology, CitySafe
http://citysafe.org
http://livsey.org

On Jan 25, 2008 11:44 AM, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The details of the February meeting are now up on the LRUG website:
> http://lrug.org/meetings/2008/01/25/february-2008-meeting/
>
>  As usual, please register with Skills Matter if you are coming
> (http://skillsmatter.com/lrug) and do so early so that they have plenty of
> time to book a bigger room if necessary.
>
> The short version of the agenda is that we have between 8 and 10 speakers
> doing short lightning talks of 20 slides that last 20 seconds each,
> resulting in talks of 6:40 in length.  So far we've got 7 speakers confirmed
> (3 of them so far unsure about their topics):
>
> * James Adam - topic tbc
> * Richard Livesy - RSpec stories.
> * Rob McKinnon - "A Ruby Journey"
> * Daniel Tenner - Adobe Flex: what it is, why he uses it in ruby
> * David Salgado - Rails deployment platforms
> * Roland Swingler - Pattern matching in ruby (possible topic only)
> * Laurie Young - Design patterns in ruby (possible topic only)
>
> There's a couple of other folk who said they'd be interested that I'm still
> waiting to hear back from, but as I've not heard from them yet the slots are
> still open.  So if you are interested in talking, get in touch with me
> directly, or on the mailing list and I'm sure we can slot you in.  I'll keep
> updating the site and list as and when I know more.
>
> The other exciting thing is that the organisers of QCon London
> (http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/) have been in touch and given us
> another free ticket to raffle off.  QCon is March 12-14 this year and has a
> pretty interesting looking Ruby track (
> http://qcon.infoq.com/london/tracks/show_track.jsp?trackOID=90), but many of
> the other tracks seem interesting too (Agile practices, new languages, dsls
> etc..., take a look for yourself: http://qcon.infoq.com/london/tracks/).  As
> well as a free ticket, they've given us a £50 discount off the £1180 price
> for the conference, so even if you don't win the raffle there's still a deal
> to be had if you are interested.  The discount code is: user_group_50.
>
> Anyway, we'll do the draw the same way we've done these things in the past:
> everyone that turns up on the night will have their DNA collected and put
> into a teleporter with a fly and the person whose DNA+Fly combination
> creates the best monster will receive the ticket.  To avoid arguments and
> unnecessary monster-based violence on the night, we will use a
> non-subjective scoring system with the winning monster having the highest
> scores on empirical scales of fang quantity, bloodlust, scaliness of flesh,
> creepiness of eyes, spindliness of limbs, etc...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Muz