<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>We _can_ do the meeting via zoom, but we would love to do it in person. That needs you to help out though!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Murray & the rest of the organising team</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 at 16:45, Murray Steele <<a href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com">murray.steele@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 22:37, Frederick Cheung via Chat <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">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 <a href="mailto:talks@lrug.org" target="_blank">talks@lrug.org</a> if you're interested</div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">* Ruby 4 is our Christmas treat from Matz Claus this year. What’s in it? You could do a summary talk using <div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><a href="https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html" style="font-size:inherit" target="_blank">https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html</a> as a starter, or you could go deep on a single new feature like `Ruby::Box` or ZJIT or your favourite.</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">* Minitest 6 is out (<a href="https://zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html" style="font-size:inherit" target="_blank">https://zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html</a><span style="font-size:inherit;border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">) 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?</span></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:inherit;border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">* 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 <div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><a href="https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12/22/state-of-hanami-december-2025/" style="font-size:inherit" target="_blank">https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12/22/state-of-hanami-december-2025/</a> might be a good start</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">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!</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">Cheers</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">Murray </div></span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"></div></div>
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