<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Hi fellow Rubyists,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">In my position of Dev Team Lead for NHS.UK part of NHSDigital and one of the organisers for Sheffield Ruby User Group I’m proud to be involved with Isle of Ruby, a brand-new conference we are running this April. If you are interested in a Ruby and a Tech for Good conference in the UK, we’ve got you covered. We would be grateful if you could pass this message along to the members of London Ruby User Group.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"> </div><div id="ydpe71e2e3ex_yiv9473644297ydpf56b9a55yiv1030028988yMail_cursorElementTracker_1516917571092" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Before you come and join us as an attendee (psssst our early bird tickets are on sale at the moment: https://ti.to/isleofruby/2018-edition/en), why not submit a proposal for a talk? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Technology does not exist in a vacuum. While Isle of Ruby is a Ruby conference, it also wants to spur on members of our community to consider how the work we do affects the world around us and what we can do to have an impact. We welcome both technological talks as well as talks about experiences along those lines and we will bring in people from other programming communities and disciplines to help us explore some of these questions. Some of our thinking around this can be found here: https://medium.com/noisland/no-island-dcf88f2f12d3 .</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Give us a shout if you need any more information info@isleofruby.org or apply here https://cfp.isleofruby.org/events/isleofruby-2018 </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Thank you in advance and looking forward to hearing from you.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">P.S. Ooops, please ignore the first email. Occupational hazard in using Leeds/London interchangeably :P (work has offices in both)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><i>Sent from a train leaving Exeter </i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Kind regards,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Eva Barabas</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">eve@isleofruby.org</div><div id="ydpe71e2e3ex_yiv9473644297ydpf56b9a55yiv1030028988yMail_cursorElementTracker_1516917568994" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">@isleofruby</div><br></div></div></div></body></html>