From: "Rob ." Date: 2006-10-27T22:32:32+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Potential Brit ruby meeting formally Chunky Bacon On 10/27/06, dblack@wobblini.net wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Paul Lynch wrote: > > On 26 Oct 2006, at 17:53, Tom Armitage wrote: > >> On 26/10/06, Paul Lynch wrote: > >>> The London Ruby group seems to be very much a stealth group. > >> > >> Well, the London Ruby Group is only of relevance to people in/near > >> London, TBH. It's very much _not_ a stealth group, though > > > > Let's just say that LRUG doesn't advertise its existence on this list. > > I don't think most local/regional RUGs do. Paul, thanks for the feedback. As the main convenor of the London Ruby User Group, I feel responsible if people in London aren't finding out about us or don't find the meetings fun! I've posted next meeting's details to ruby-talk: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/222246 All are welcome to come to meetings when in London! We are a friendly bunch, and open to evolving in an agile manner. Based on this ruby-talk thread, we've been debating on our lrug mailing list how to be more friendly (http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org). We're going to put up links to our member's blogs from the LRUG site to show our friendly faces - that'll be there next week. We've being growing LRUG organically. The group started as a pub meeting whenever David Black was passing through. Thanks to a great bunch of local Rubyists and the enthusiasm of Tiest Villee when he got back from RubyConf 2005, we started running monthly meetings with presentions last year. More recently our group has benefited from our friends Skills Matter (http://skillsmatter.com) donating meeting space and event sponsorship. If you search for "ruby user group" or "london ruby" we're on the first page of results, thanks to James Adam, who set up our website (http://lrug.org). So hopefully we're not too hard to find these days. :) cheers, Rob McKinnon