[LRUG] [HELP NEEDED] LRUG Gazette - a physical newspaper!!?!

[Murray Steele]

Hi Tom 👋

Glad to have the London Ruby community return to a double strength Tom
Stuart solution.


> 1. I'd love to contribute to this. Do you already have someone for the
> crossword? I'm thinking it would be fun to do a dual-clue puzzle, where
> both sets of clues lead to the same answers, but one set is cryptic clues
> and the other set is Ruby code.


Love the idea of a dual clue puzzle.  No idea how it’d work, or how you’d
even write such a thing.  Writing a single clue puzzle sounds hard enough!

There’s been some interest from folk in crosswords so I’ll put you all in
touch separately and you can work out if you want to collaborate or we just
end up with a crossword on each page.

2. After 12 years in Berlin, I'm moving back to the UK with my little
> family. Who are the companies I should be talking to? I can do up to two
> days a week in a London office and I'm looking for management roles (open
> to staff IC roles in backend/infra, but I think I'm a bit out of date there
> to be honest.)
>

It’d be remiss of me not to mention that Cleo is hiring EM roles -
https://boards.greenhouse.io/cleoai/jobs/6965528002 (email me direct if you
want more details), but in the interest of balance I think I’ve seen
similar roles at Intercom, Bloom & Wild, and Canva recently - no doubt you
can find those on LinkedIn but maybe folk from those parishes would chip in
to make their case?  I think the B&W one might even have been infra/devops
too?

Not sure who else lurking on this list might have such open positions
though, perhaps this thread can draw them out of the woodwork?  My
assumption here is that you’re after ruby-ish roles, but 🤷

Cheers,

Murray

On Sun, 26 May 2024 at 11:01, Tom Stuart <tom at tomstuart.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Murray!
>
> Long time no speak! How are you doing? Two things:
>
> 1. I'd love to contribute to this. Do you already have someone for the
> crossword? I'm thinking it would be fun to do a dual-clue puzzle, where
> both sets of clues lead to the same answers, but one set is cryptic clues
> and the other set is Ruby code.
> 2. After 12 years in Berlin, I'm moving back to the UK with my little
> family. Who are the companies I should be talking to? I can do up to two
> days a week in a London office and I'm looking for management roles (open
> to staff IC roles in backend/infra, but I think I'm a bit out of date there
> to be honest.)
>
> Tom
>
> On Sat, 18 May 2024, 11:17 Murray Steele, <murray.steele at lrug.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If you were at our May meeting last Monday (13th) you’ll have heard me
>> talk about wanting to put together a physical newspaper for the LRUG
>> community.
>>
>> https://lrug.org/gazette/
>>
>> I don’t really know what might be in there, but I came up with a
>> masthead, tweaked the LRUG logo, and put it on a webpage, so I guess that
>> means it has to exist!
>>
>> I’m looking for ruby-themed classic newspaper content like:
>>
>> * A crossword
>> * A 3-panel gag strip
>> * 100 word micro articles on favourite LRUG talks from the past
>> * Long form opinion pieces about the ruby ecosystem
>> * Reviews of new gem releases as if they were albums or movies
>> * Advice columns
>> * Competitions
>> * Travel advice for the summer conference season
>> * Sensational headlines
>> * ...
>> * <%= your_ideas %>
>>
>> I think this would be fun and I’d love to see what kinds of things we can
>> fill it with.  Get in touch if you have ideas or would like to volunteer to
>> produce something.
>>
>> I’m also keen to hear from anyone who has any print industry experience
>> and can help me with using the tools.  The service I’m looking at using (
>> https://www.newspaperclub.com/) to produce the newspaper has templates
>> for indesign, canva, and scribus.  I don’t have indesign money, so I’m
>> struggling through with scribus.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Murray
>> Editor-in-chief, Publisher, Designer - The LRUG Gazette
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