[LRUG] February Venue + CFP - [was Re: Lightning talk ideas for Feb]

[Murray Steele]

Hi all,

Our Feb meeting will be on Monday February 9th, and we're on the look out
for talks to fill the agenda.  Remember that Feb is lightning talks night
and so you can't talk for more than 10 minutes - which I think is the
perfect amount of time to dip your toe into public speaking.

We have 3 confirmed volunteers, and I remember talking to at least 2 more
in the pub after the January meeting last week.  However, don't let the
tragedy of the commons defeat us in getting to the 7 or 8 we need to fill
the night.  If you have an idea we really do want to hear from you, and we
mean "the person reading this email" you, not "oh someone else will do it,
there are loads of folk on this mailing list" you.

We _ALSO_ desperately need a venue.  We've been in touch with a few folk
and it looks like we might have venues for March and April sorted, but no
luck so far for Feb.  Again, we do mean you "the person reading this
email".  If you have access to a venue we could use that might accommodate
50 or more folk (Feb tends to be our popular meeting) then please do get in
touch!

We _can_ do the meeting via zoom, but we would love to do it in person.
That needs you to help out though!

Cheers,

Murray & the rest of the organising team

On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 at 16:45, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thought I might piggy back off Fred’s announcement about our Jan meeting
> to encourage you all to come up with some talks for our February lighting
> talks meeting.
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 22:37, Frederick Cheung via Chat <
> chat at lists.lrug.org> wrote:
>
>> If you really want to tick off a new year's resolution early then there's
>> still plenty of room to speak at February's Lightning talks' meeting -
>> we're looking for up to 8 talks of around 5-10 minutes. It's the perfect
>> opportunity to try your hand at speaking or float a new idea / hot take.
>> Please drop us a line at talks at lrug.org if you're interested
>>
>
> Here are a few specific ideas that I thought would be easy talks to give
> and this limbo between Christmas and Hogmanay is the perfect time for
> exploring them:
>
> * Ruby 4 is our Christmas treat from Matz Claus this year. What’s in it?
> You could do a summary talk using
> https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html as a starter, or
> you could go deep on a single new feature like `Ruby::Box` or ZJIT or your
> favourite.
> * Minitest 6 is out (
> https://zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html)
> and has “please don’t just blindly update particularly if you’re railsy”
> vibe - what are the gotchas? Why might we be interested in upgrading - what
> exciting new features are there?
> * Hanami had a major release in late Nov and is worth exploring in a talk
> on it either on its own merits or as a compare and contrast with rails
> feels very timely.  The “state of the union” blog post
> https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12/22/state-of-hanami-december-2025/ might
> be a good start
>
> Of course I’m sure you have plenty of your own ideas. What fun things have
> you been up to in Ruby this year? Share them with us!
>
> Cheers
>
> Murray
>
>>
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