From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-10-27T22:01:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Potential Brit ruby meeting formally Chunky Bacon

Hi --

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Thomas Adam wrote:

> 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.

I live between New York and Philadelphia, both of which have very
active Ruby and/or Rails groups.  I've been to meetings of both and
they're great -- but I've also thought about having a New Jersey (my
state) group, and talked to some people about it.  It's difficult,
because some people in NJ live as far from anywhere we'd meet as
others do from NY or Philly.  I live just far enough from both to make
it non-easy to get to meetings.

> 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

Any relation to James? :-)


David

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