From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2002-07-30T14:35:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Seattle.rb meeting tomorrow (7/30) In article <20020730023833.GI9078@ns>, Paul Duncan wrote: >* Dave Thomas (Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com) wrote: >> Pat Eyler writes: >> >> > Just a quick reminder that we'll be meeting tomorrow night at 7:00 PM at >> > the SU library ... see ya'll there! >> >> Talking about Seattle: anyone fancy getting together this coming >> Saturday evening in Bellvue? I'm talking at the Pacific Northwest Software >> Symposium (including a talk on Ruby for Java programmers). >> >> I'm not up for a late night (I've got to get to SeaTac for a 6am flight >> Sunday morning) but it would be nice to meet up for dinner somewhere. I >> _think_ I'm at the Hilton Bellvue. > >Out of curiousity, what's up with all the Ruby activity in the northwest >all the sudden? > >I'm asking because I just moved to the east coast from Oregon, and I'm >wondering what I'm missing. :) > You left just as the PDX.rb is getting going - if you had only been patient for another month or two you could have joined us... ;-) ....but (semi) seriously, I don't know what's going on over here, maybe the fact that they're using Ruby out at Intel has something to do with it (at least here in Portland). The interesting thing is that of the five or six folks I've run into recently who have been using Ruby, I don't think any of then knew about (or at least if they did they didn't participate in or read) this mailing list/ng which I find kind of odd. Phil