[LRUG] [ANN] November meeting details

[Murray Steele]

Oh, and, I should have put this on the original email but when you
volunteer a talk, please send it to talks at lrug.org rather than replying
directly to me.

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 10:17, Murray Steele <murray.steele at lrug.org> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Just to say we’ve had a bunch of you volunteer something so watch this
> space for more details soon on the Novemeber meeting.  Thanks everyone!
>
> We haven’t replied (yet) to everyone, but will do so soon.  We’re working
> through in first-come first-served order.  Chances are some of you will be
> bumped to December or even January.  It’s nice to have a bit of a backlog
> though, so please do keep volunteering!
>
> It might even be time to have a think about our lightning talks meeting
> which is due in February - talks no longer than 10 minutes, and we have
> space for up to 8 speakers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Murray
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 13:26, Murray Steele <murray.steele at lrug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Our November meeting will be on Monday 8th November, and as usual we’ll
>> congreate over zoom.  The “doors” open at 6:20pm, we kick off formal
>> proceedings about 6:30pm and we aim to be finished by 8pm.  Some of us will
>> hang out on the zoom call after the talks past 8pm if you’d like to keep
>> chatting ruby.
>>
>> This meeting we have … uh … is this right? … 0 talks lined up.
>>
>> Ah.
>>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> That’s not great is it?
>>
>> We have one talk pencilled in for December, but our November meeting is
>> empty right now.  That’s where you come in, we hope.  We’re looking for
>> short (up to 10 minutes), medium (upto 25 minutes) or long (up to 40
>> minutes) talks on something ruby or ruby-adjacent.  If you program in ruby,
>> and you think it’s interesting, chances are most of our attendees would
>> too.  For example there were a couple of people last month thinking about
>> giving talks on the new JS ecosystem that Rails 7 will expose us to.  It’s
>> not ruby, but it is ruby-adjacent.
>>
>> We also don’t expect that our speakers are experts in their topics.  It
>> might be that you’ve just dug into something and wanted to share your first
>> impressions, or you want to talk about something you find confusing to
>> start a discussion about it and get tips.  Or maybe you want to share that
>> you were daunted by something and actually it wasn’t that complex once you
>> dug into it and you want to share that experience too.  We love hearing
>> freshing perspectives on our tools, and we’re more than happy to help you
>> shape an idea into a talk, we’d even run a rehearsal with you if you wanted.
>>
>> Anyway please volunteer something - we’d love to hear from you!  And do
>> spread the word to your colleauges, friends, family, acquaintances that
>> we’re looking.  Heck, at this point we’d probably even be happy for you to
>> spread the word to your enemies too.
>>
>> We’ll post the registration page on eventbrite and meeting details on
>> lrug.org shortly, but hope to be able to do so with at least one talk on
>> the agenda before we do.  Could you be our saviour?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Murray & the rest of the LRUG organising team
>>
>
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