<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm happy to do something on Metaprogramming.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On 18 Jun 2007, at 10:17, Murray Steele wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Sorry to keep banging on about this, but Skills Matter need to know by the end of the week if we'll be running a BoF or not. From the overwhelming response I'm going to hazard a guess at not, but you never know.<BR> <BR>Has anyone got any ideas about running a BoF for Java programmers interested in Ruby. I think Martin and James's ideas below were quite interesting, but we'd need a few folk willing to give up an evening to do one of the suggested lightning talks. Any takers? <BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Muz<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 11/06/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Murray Steele</B> <<A href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com">murray.steele@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;"> 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<DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_11319d926c4b2ce9_1"><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" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> 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" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">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" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> chat@lrug.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:chat@lrug.org">chat@lrug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>