From: Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T21:55:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Potential Brit ruby meeting formally Chunky Bacon

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:39:48 +0900
dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> I don't think most local/regional RUGs do.  There's a wiki page for
> them on Ruby Garden, though I don't think it's very up to date.

The one I maintain there is.  The problem with any regional group
gathering with a special interest to it, such as Ruby, is that for some
areas there are not many people at all.  This is something that I am
experiencing at the moment where I happen to live in the UK.  I have
had to date only one person contact me with a specific interest in
starting a RUG.  But he hasn't replied back to me in over five months.

What tends to happen (and is much more likely) is that interest in a
particular aspect of programming stems from more generalised meetings
such as LUGs -- but the problem then is maintaining interest.  I have
seen a few people express an interest in $FOO with a verbal intent of
carrying it forward only to have them back out for no other reason
other than a loss of interest; which is paradoxically annoying.

So I am but a lone Ruby programmer.  I might look at joining the London
group but London is many miles from where I happen to live.

-- Thomas Adam