[LRUG] Coding meet up

[Keith McDonnell]

Hi,

It seems that Thursday 28th suits most people.

I'm thinking we can work on a search app to find UK rubyists, maybe visualise on 
a google map or do some graph analysis.

We've had two generous offers so far to host the event:
- http://www.wordtracker.com in Kentish Town
- http://tribesports.com in Hoxton

Capacity is limited to about 15 spots though.

Can you reply if you can attend on Thursday please?

Keith
http://keithmcdonnell.net

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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 22:32:32 +0100 (BST)
> From: David Waller<david.a.waller at btinternet.com>
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> Could do Mon, Tue, Wed, but not Thu.
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> David
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> ________________________________
> From: Keith McDonnell<keith at dancingtext.com>
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> Sent: Friday, 13 May, 2011 13:43:03
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> Hi,
>
> Great to hear there's interest in meeting up to code together!
>
> I'm thinking of meeting up any day between Monday 23rd&  Thursday 26th from
> 18:30 - 20:00. What day suits everyone best?
>
> When we pick a day, I'll sort out a venue (in central London).
>
> Keith
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> From: Leonardo Cassarani<leonardo.cassarani at gmail.com>
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> Hi all
>
> I had to miss Ruby Golf last week as I had a prior commitment, so I'd really
> love to come, though I'm not a professional Ruby developer (yet) and I fear
> my skills may be slightly below par. However, it sounds like I could learn a
> lot from the event. Any evening between Monday and Thursday is fine by me,
> especially Wednesday and Thursday.
>
> Out of curiosity (I'm fairly new to this) are there any plans for the day
> yet? Is it going to be another competitive event (like Ruby Golf) or do you
> guys have something more collaborative in mind (along the lines of everyone
> pulling together to solve an interesting problem)?
>
> Cheers
> Leo
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> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 22:52:47 +0100
> From: Aleksandar Simic<asimic at gmail.com>
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> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Leonardo Cassarani
> <leonardo.cassarani at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all
>> I had to miss Ruby Golf last week as I had a prior commitment, so I'd really
>> love to come, though I'm not a professional Ruby developer (yet) and I fear
>> my skills may be slightly below par. However, it sounds like I could learn a
>> lot from the event. Any evening between Monday and Thursday is fine by me,
>> especially Wednesday and Thursday.
>> Out of curiosity (I'm fairly new to this) are there any plans for the day
>> yet? Is it going to be another competitive event (like Ruby Golf) or do you
>> guys have something more collaborative in mind (along the lines of everyone
>> pulling together to solve an interesting problem)?
>
> Hello Leonardo,
>
> there's a Code Retreat being planned, maybe that might be of interest to you?
>
> More details coming soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Aleksandar
>
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> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 23:14:27 +0100
> From: Leonardo Cassarani<leonardo.cassarani at gmail.com>
> To: London Ruby Users Group<chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Coding meet up
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> Hi Aleksandar
>
> Yeah, it certainly does sound interesting, though I've never been to a Code
> Retreat myself and can't vouch for the effectiveness of the format. From
> what I gather (correct me if I'm wrong), the idea is to be given a set of
> problems of increasing difficulties in a certain amount of time, at the end
> of which solutions are compared and people learn from different approaches
> to the problem. I've read accounts of people doing this sort of thing and
> from what I can remember they were all very enthusiastic about it, so as I
> said I'd definitely be interested. I'll stay tuned for locations and dates.
>
> Leo
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> On 15 May 2011 22:52, Aleksandar Simic<asimic at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>
>> Hello Leonardo,
>>
>> there's a Code Retreat being planned, maybe that might be of interest to
>> you?
>>
>> More details coming soon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aleksandar
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> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 08:12:51 +0100
> From: "Viktor Tron"<viktor.tron at gmail.com>
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> I'd love to come, would prefer tue or thu
> Vik
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> On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:32:32 +0100, David Waller
> <david.a.waller at btinternet.com>  wrote:
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>> Could do Mon, Tue, Wed, but not Thu.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Keith McDonnell<keith at dancingtext.com>
>> To: chat at lists.lrug.org
>> Sent: Friday, 13 May, 2011 13:43:03
>> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Coding meet up
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Great to hear there's interest in meeting up to code together!
>>
>> I'm thinking of meeting up any day between Monday 23rd&  Thursday 26th
>> from
>> 18:30 - 20:00. What day suits everyone best?
>>
>> When we pick a day, I'll sort out a venue (in central London).
>>
>> Keith
>> http://keithmcdonnell.net
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chat mailing list
>> Chat at lists.lrug.org
>> http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org
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> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:05:49 +0100
> From: Andrew McDonough<andrew at andrewmcdonough.co.uk>
> To: London Ruby Users Group<chat at lists.lrug.org>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Coding meet up
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> I'm also keen on more practical evenings, and I'd be happy to hold
> some in the Tribesports office.  We're located beside Hoxton station,
> and our office could fit about 20 comfortably or 30 at a squeeze.  The
> only issue is we only have about 12 chairs, so I'd probably need to
> order a few folding ones.  We also have a digital projector for
> presentations.
>
> Andrew
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> http://tribesports.com
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> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:15:13 +0100
> From: Graham Ashton<graham at effectif.com>
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> On 16 May 2011, at 12:05, Andrew McDonough wrote:
>
>> I'm also keen on more practical evenings, and I'd be happy to hold
>> some in the Tribesports office.  We're located beside Hoxton station,
>> and our office could fit about 20 comfortably or 30 at a squeeze.  The
>> only issue is we only have about 12 chairs, so I'd probably need to
>> order a few folding ones.  We also have a digital projector for
>> presentations.
>
> That'd be very handy for me.
>
> I've been to the Python dojo a few times and really enjoy the "sit down and code on a problem" format.
>
> One of the things the Python guys do is to limit the number of people who can go to a single event. I suspect this is because there's only so much room in the office they use, but it also makes the evening feel a little more personal. It's just a bummer if you want to go and don't manage to book a place on eventwax fast enough...
>
> Oh, and, the company who provides the office sponsors the evening with beer and take away pizza, so everybody stands around getting to know each other at the beginning.
>
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> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:37:51 +0100
> From: Murray Steele<murray.steele at gmail.com>
> To: London Ruby Users Group<chat at lists.lrug.org>
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> On 16 May 2011 12:15, Graham Ashton<graham at effectif.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 16 May 2011, at 12:05, Andrew McDonough wrote:
>>
>>> I'm also keen on more practical evenings, and I'd be happy to hold
>>> some in the Tribesports office.  We're located beside Hoxton station,
>>> and our office could fit about 20 comfortably or 30 at a squeeze.  The
>>> only issue is we only have about 12 chairs, so I'd probably need to
>>> order a few folding ones.  We also have a digital projector for
>>> presentations.
>>
>> That'd be very handy for me.
>>
>> I've been to the Python dojo a few times and really enjoy the "sit down and
>> code on a problem" format.
>>
>> One of the things the Python guys do is to limit the number of people who
>> can go to a single event. I suspect this is because there's only so much
>> room in the office they use, but it also makes the evening feel a little
>> more personal. It's just a bummer if you want to go and don't manage to book
>> a place on eventwax fast enough...
>>
>
> There are plenty of ruby companies in London, I wonder if these sorts of
> meetings could rotate through multiple companies / venues.  Everyone can
> offer to run one and reduce the burden on their company and hopefully more
> people would attend if it's in difference places each time (overall, rather
> than on a given night).  The downside is of course that it has an increased
> effort on the part of the organiser to find a company each time.
>
> Speaking of which, do we need an "organiser" to keep momentum on this?  And
> if so, do they want a place on lrug.org to talk about these things?
>
> Muz
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