From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T01:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: RUGS

On 1/13/06, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the pep talk, James.  However, I should mention that I've
> been on the ground level for a half-a-dozen clubs / organizations:
> initiative is one of my strengths.  From my experiences, I've
> observed that my start-ups tended to have a difficult time convincing
> people to stick around longer than a meeting or two when the club's
> leaders weren't seasoned veterans.  Conversely, we couldn't find
> places large enough to hold meetings for my start-ups that had
> experienced people at the top.  From this, I've concluded that most
> people come to their first meeting expecting that some of the
> organizers to be at their skill level or higher.

Maybe you can use this to your advantage.   What about trying to start
a Learning Ruby group.   You could try running a reading group around
Programming Ruby, or Learn to Program with Ruby.  After several
meetings you (the group) might be interested in morphing it into a
full blown Ruby Brigade.

A group like this might be able to draw some folks from other
computing groups in the area.   While I'm not a fan of meetup.com,
I think they're a good place to trawl for potential Ruby Brigade members.
You might also check out www.gnhlug.org which seems to have a
number of not linux specific things going on.  Perhaps posting to
the Rails list would help as well, it often seems that folks on the
Rails list forget/don't know that ruby-talk exists.

>
> That's why I don't yet feel comfortable starting a Ruby-focused group
> on my own.

Well, hopefully you can find/gather a small core and turn it into a
Ruby Brigade.

>
> ~ ryan ~
>
>
>


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thanks,
-pate
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