[LRUG] So long!

[Asfand Qazi]

Sorry everyone, that was an accidental reply-to-list! I guess his leaving
had me in such hysterics I forgot to check the recipient.

Thanks


On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 at 16:02 Asfand Qazi <ayqazi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Najaf,
>
> I hope you are well. Hope the move works out for you. As I said when we
> chatted (because, of course, you remember every conversation you've ever
> had with everyone, I'm sure!) I'm planning on doing something like that
> myself, but don't have a successful business to take with me!
>
> Quick question, hope you don't mind me farming your knowledge and
> experiences: do you think a training course for developers to learn how to
> properly host and deploy their apps to cloud services is something they'd
> find useful, and be popular?
>
> Anyway, let us know how it goes, and all the best!
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 at 07:28 Najaf Ali <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> If you’re not sure who I am you can safely ignore this email.
>>
>> Things have progressed to a point where the probability of us moving to
>> Japan before the end of July this year has reached five nines. Unless the
>> Japanese government can’t see their way to granting me a suitable visa, our
>> intention is to live there for good.
>>
>> I started attending LRUG in around 2012/13 and since then the community
>> has been an integral part of my career trajectory and working life. I’ve
>> made a lot of good friends through LRUG, and most of our work at Happy Bear
>> Software is the result of a contact I made at LRUG in one form or another.
>> I also hope that the few talks I’ve given at LRUG have been a little bit
>> valuable to at least one or two of you in attendance. Overall I’d like to
>> think that the few years I’ve spent as a part of the LRUG community has, on
>> balance, been mutually beneficial.
>>
>> A few things:
>>
>> *Happy Bear Software will continue to operate exactly as it does now. *We’re
>> always happy to hear from people that want Rails development help, and that
>> won’t be changing. The plan for the company from day one was for me to be
>> able to run it from anywhere, so there’s no reason for it to stop now.
>>
>> *A (probably) last Rails Security Workshop*. Please email me and let me
>> know if this sounds like something you would like to do. I’ll organise the
>> event, probably in early April or early May, based on demand.
>>
>> *Coffee/lunch/beer*. If we are already friends and you would like to
>> catch up before we go, please email me and let’s set something up. A catch
>> up over a call could be great too. Same applies if we haven’t spoken in
>> person before and you’d like to talk shop over a suitable beverage. I want
>> to hear from you, please email me. I will probably schedule these for after
>> March because I want to spend all of my spare cycles this month preparing
>> for...
>>
>> *Bath Ruby*. If none of the above works I will be at Bath Ruby and we
>> can catch up there. Regardless of that, the rest of the line up is
>> fantastic and you should buy tickets and go if you haven’t done so already:
>> https://2018.bathruby.uk/ I will also try to be around for Brighton
>> Ruby, which is the other really effing good UK Ruby Conference, and you
>> should go to that too regardless: https://brightonruby.com/
>>
>> *Other talks*. The only talk someone has actually asked me to give left
>> in my talk ideas list is about how we hire developers at HBS, so I will try
>> to get that in at an LRUG between now and when we leave if the organisers
>> deem it appropriate. I will also try to give the mirror talk to that (about
>> how to get hired) both for another Makers cohort if we can figure out
>> dates, and same again for an uncodebar too.
>>
>> That’s all folks! As mentioned above it would be great to hear from you
>> if you’d like to catch up before we move so don’t hesitate to send me a
>> quick email.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>
> Regards,
>     Asfand
>
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Regards,
    Asfand
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