<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">It’s good for us all to hear how you’re doing though 😄</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I love your idea for the crossword. I started playing around writing a crossword generator that could have the code included - like the old BASIC code write-ups in magazines.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 26 May 2024, at 11:03, Tom Stuart <tom@tomstuart.co.uk> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Dear lrug,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is also apparently a long time since I interacted with this mailing list, and I forgot that the reply-to address would be the list. Sorry about that, and hi.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">T</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 26 May 2024, 11:58 Tom Stuart, <<a href="mailto:tom@tomstuart.co.uk">tom@tomstuart.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Murray! <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Long time no speak! How are you doing? Two things: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto">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in a London office and I'm looking for management roles (open to staff IC roles in backend/infra, but I think I'm a bit out of date there to be honest.)</div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">Tom</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 18 May 2024, 11:17 Murray Steele, <<a href="mailto:murray.steele@lrug.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">murray.steele@lrug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://lrug.org/gazette/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrug.org/gazette/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>I’m looking for ruby-themed classic newspaper content like:</div><div><br></div><div>* A crossword<br></div><div>* A 3-panel gag strip</div><div>* 100 word micro articles on favourite LRUG talks from the past</div><div>* Long form opinion pieces about the ruby ecosystem</div><div>* Reviews of new gem releases as if they were albums or movies</div><div>* Advice columns</div><div>* Competitions</div><div>* Travel advice for the summer conference season</div><div>* Sensational headlines</div><div>* ...</div><div>* <%= your_ideas %></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="https://www.newspaperclub.com/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.newspaperclub.com/</a>) to produce the newspaper has templates for indesign, canva, and scribus. I don’t have indesign money, so I’m struggling through with scribus.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Murray</div><div>Editor-in-chief, Publisher, Designer - The LRUG Gazette</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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