From: pat eyler Date: 2005-04-13T06:49:15+09:00 Subject: Re: [Rails] NYC Meetup? On Apr 12, 2005 3:40 PM, Matt Pelletier wrote: > Hi Pat (and Paul, from earlier reply), > > Actually I did go to last month's Ruby Group (If you guys are watching I > was the newbie). It was quite helpful, and I even came out with a free > 'Learn Ruby in 21 days' (thanks Francis), but my impression was that it > was more oriented toward the language itself than to Rails, esp. as it's > been around longer than Rails has existed. We talked about Rails a bit, > but I don't want to inadvertantly steer those meetings into discussions > just about Rails. So I will continue to attend them, but if there is > enough interest in NYC I'd like to start one that focuses on Rails > itself. There are plenty of developers here and I'd wager the interest > is only going to grow. Actually I'm no where near NYC, so I didn't see you at the last meeting. ;^) I am concerned though that by starting Rails specific groups, we fragment a community that is still fairly young. I think having a RoR group is a great idea, but I'd rather see it run in cooperation with an NYC.rb (or whatever). I think the new Rails folks can learn a lot from experienced Rubyists, and the 'old timers' can certainly get a boost from the new folks that RoR will bring in. just my $0.02 > > Matt > -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said - the Raven (George MacDonald, Lilith)