Just a reminder about this. If anyone has any ideas about running a BoF session, or taking part in it, grab me tonight. Skills Matter want to know soonish if we want to be involved, so tonight's as good a night as any to suggest stuff.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Muz<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Adam</b> <<a href="mailto:james.adam@gmail.com">james.adam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/29/07, Martin Sadler <<a href="mailto:mtsbtt@googlemail.com">mtsbtt@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I know there was a Rails track at QCon that was held a while back. For those<br>> who attended<br>> what was the general consensus from Java developers on Ruby?
<br><br>My impression of the QCon audience was that it was comprised of people<br>who just wanted to know a bit more about Ruby, to see what all the<br>fuss was about.<br><br>> My first thought is to have a panel of recent Java to Ruby converts backed
<br>> up by some<br>> more experienced Rubyists. We could then do a series of lightening talks<br>> complimented<br>> with questions from the audience to the panel.<br><br>This sounds like a good format to me. For the lightning talks, it
<br>shouldn't be hard to do any of the following in 5 minutes:<br><br>* Your First Rails App<br>* The Joy of Rake<br>* Here's the Skinny about RubyGems, Y'all<br>* "Metaprogramming Voodoo"<br><br>.... basically any of these could be quick demos to be used as
<br>starting points for questions and discussion.<br><br><br>--<br>* J *<br> ~<br>_______________________________________________<br>chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chat@lrug.org">chat@lrug.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">
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