[LRUG] Looking at the July LRUG (and also THE FUTURE (well, August anyway))

[Joseph Wilk]

Matt Wynne wrote:
>
> On 10 Jun 2009, at 17:38, James Adam wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/10 Abdel A Saleh <abdel.a.saleh at gmail.com>:
>>>>>  Ruby influences night: presenting things from other languages (perl,
>>>>> smalltalk, lisp) that have made it into ruby
>>> I very much like the sound of that :-) +1
>>
>> I too think it's a great idea, but is it something we can actually put
>> on? Do we have members with enough experience in other languages to
>> present? If so, make yourselves known, along with the traitorous
>> language that you could/would talk about, and we can probably make a
>> reasonable night of it.
>
> I could do this with C# / .NET I guess, I've been meaning to sum up my 
> experiences since leaving that fold for some time.
I could dust off my Prolog fu.
>
>> In general, I think it would be great to try and do something
>> different. I would definitely be interested in a coding dojo, but
>> probably don't know quite enough about them to run one successfully.
>> I'll wrack my brains for other ideas too
>
> I'm happy to organise a dojo if that's something people would be up 
> for. I know there's been some concern about making it work with the 
> large numbers we get at LRUG, but I think we could make it work. My 
> plan would be to introduce the problem (and the randoori rules) to the 
> whole room, them split into groups to solve the same problem in 
> parallel randoori iterations. Finally we'd get everyone back together 
> at the end to review and discuss each other's solutions.
>
> We could do some stray poll of skill level to make sure each group got 
> a good balance of ninjas and newbies.
>
> What do you think?
Sounds awesome Matt.

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