From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-11-11T10:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Forming a Ruby meetup group...


On Nov 10, 2011, at 16:01 , Matt Lawrence wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Ryan Davis wrote:
> 
>> I can second this and/or take it a bit further... Seattle.rb used to do presentation in several different formats over the years. Eventually we evolved into a weekly "nerd party" (aka, hack night). Totally free-form, no presentations. We went from a rather dry presentation format to (at the time) beer, pizza, and kiln cooked sandwiches and it ignited our meeting attendance. There are three key components in there:
> 
> Uh huh, you just want to encourge the sorts of really insanely BAD IDEAS that have been coming out of the Seattle Ruby community.  Yeah, I see your evil plan.....

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or something