From: Paul Lynch <paul@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T01:45:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Potential Brit ruby meeting formally Chunky Bacon

On 26 Oct 2006, at 16:49, Tom Armitage wrote:

> On 26/10/06, Cameron, Gemma (UK) <Gemma.Cameron@baesystems.com> wrote:
>
>> There seem to be a few communities on the go in the UK already.  
>> Might be
>> worth having our own Brit Ruby Conference, like the US version but  
>> with
>> rain rather than snow!
>
> Britain tends to end up as part of the European Ruby scene right now
> (which is no bad thing). Euruko is next weekend in Germany, and is
> dirt cheap (and might still be taking places if you fancy a jaunt
> east); RailsConf Europe was in London six/seven weeks ago (but
> RailsConf Europe 2007 will be in Germany).
>
> Just to point out that there _is_ stuff happening _already_ in this  
> country.

There's no real reason that the UK should be tacked on to Europe,  
community-wise, and improving the local community has to be a *good*  
thing, not a bad one.

The London Ruby group seems to be very much a stealth group.  If  
newcomers to the community aren't aware of it (and it took me more  
than 6 months before I heard about it), then there's room for a more  
public forum.  RailsConf, on the other hand, was reasonably well  
publicised.

Paul