From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T00:57:03+09:00
Subject: Re: UNH.rb may soon become NewHaven.rb


Gregory Brown wrote:
> As far as I know, the University of New Haven ruby group (UNH.rb) is
> the only Ruby Group in the Greater New Haven (connecticut) area.  We
> are a new group (established in mid september) but we would like to
> expand our horizons by opening up our meetings to the greater New Haven
> area, appealing to those at Yale, Quinnipiac, Southern, and the other
> area Universities as well as people in the area industries along with
> any hobbyists.
> ...
> We're thinking of doing monthly meetings with about 60% planned talks /
> presentations and 40% discussion and tom-foolery and then weekly hack
> sessions that'll be totally informal and optional.
> ...
> If all goes well, we'll do a quick vote and announce NewHaven.rb on
> Sunday.

The vote definitely looks like it is going to pass, I know of enough
people who already told me they plan to vote yes, so we may announce
NewHaven.rb later today.

Local User Groups, speak now or forever hold your peace :)

We're going through a set of possible topics and discussing the group
format on our forum, which will be replaced with a google group if the
vote on the transition passes.  (For those that hate forums)

Transition Discussion:
http://stonecode.org/organizations/unh.rb/board/viewtopic.php?t=33

Topics Discussion:
http://stonecode.org/organizations/unh.rb/board/viewtopic.php?t=34