From: Tom Armitage <tom.armitage@...>
Date: 2006-10-28T03:04:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Potential Brit ruby meeting formally Chunky Bacon

On 27/10/06, Cameron, Gemma (UK) <Gemma.Cameron@baesystems.com> wrote:
> Thanks Paul but for now it might be best if I did just sit quietly in
> the corner like a good little girl.

So: that kind of response totally wasn't my intention. Paul thinks I
was being rude, which made him angry. Well, I can kind of see why; my
response was written in a more abrupt tone than I normally write in,
probably because I was at work and in a hurry. At the same time: I
probably misread your tone, too. My email tone, for record, is often
quite dour, and I was only trying to point out currently existing Ruby
groups who might be interested, and might be able to offer support.

Also, I wanted to point out that there _is_ a Ruby community in the
UK, however tiny. It's still slightly emergent because Ruby's profile
in the UK has been (until last year) scarce to say the least, and a
lot of the uptake in it is due to Rails. So pointing out groups like
LRUG and the Manchester-area/Northern crowds is not a way of saying
"hey, go here!" but a way of saying "there are other people who might
be interested, too!"

That was all. I'm sorry if offence was taken, as that wasn't the
intention; I'm also sorry if the purpose of my response wasn't so
clear.

I, for one, would be a) interested in such a meeting and b) interested
in making it a success (dependent on time and location, of course!).

t.