RIRUG has officially moved to its own domain so please update your bookmarks and links to point to the new official RIRUG site:
Thanks and we’ll see you on the new site
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After much work by several people, we finally have an official date for the very first Rhode Island Ruby User Group meeting.
Monday, October 27, 2008 we will be holding the first meeting at OfficeLab in Providence, RI. OfficeLab is located at 170 Westminster St. in the old Federal Reserve building.
The meeting will run from roughly 6pm – 8pm but you can start showing up around 5:30.
Addison-Wesley has been very gracious in sponsoring the first meeting. We will have several books from their Professional Ruby Series to give away as well as discounts and a free pass to the upcoming Voices That Matter: Professional Ruby Conference in Boston this November.
If you haven’t yet, please join the RIRUG Google Group and participate in the discussions taking place there.
If you plan to attend the first meeting, please reply either here below or on the Google Group mailing list so we can properly anticipate how many will show up.
If you are interested in giving a short (or long) presentation at the first or any future meetings, please let me know as well so I can coordinate that with you.
Hope to see you all there!
In an effort to ease communication and planning, I’ve gone ahead and created a Google Group for our RUG. You can find it at http://groups.google.com/group/rirug.
If you are at all interested in attending the RIRUG meetings or just participating in some Ruby related chat with other Rhode Island developers, sign up and participate in the discussion via the website or mailing list.
We are hoping to plan and hold the first RI Ruby User Group sometime this October.
We still have a bit of work to do on the planning side – mainly lining up volunteers to speak and finding a date and location.
We’ll need a few people to volunteer to give a short talk or presentation since I haven’t been able to line a guest speaker up yet. The more volunteers the shorter everyone needs to talk. Maybe the first meeting can just be a simple “Drop your Pants” session where everyone gives a blitz talk on what projects they are currently working on??
Ideas? Comments? Suggestions?
Leave a comment if you are willing to give a talk and/or if you have any suggestions on a venue for the meetup.
Here is the original discussion thread on RI Nexus as well.
After a few posts back and forth on RINexus I hope that the first official Rhode Island Ruby User Group is about to form.
We are still in the very early stages and are mostly gauging interest in forming such a group here in the Ocean State. No official meeting place or dates have been made yet but this site will be updated as new details become available.
