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Jan 17th, 2012 meetup
WHEN: Tuesday January 19th @ 18:30
WHERE: CSC-249 Computing Science Centre, University of Alberta (map)
All our meetups follow a common format. They're based around 10 minute lightning talks. This may seem short, but we offer time after each talk for questions. We also encourage you to approach the speakers and other members at drinks after the talks are done if you've got more questions you'd like answered.
Based on feedback from our members, we've revived the tradition of short introductions at the start of each meetup. Everyone has 30-seconds to share their name and to answer a short question about themselves. It doesn't take more than 10 minutes to get through everybody, and is a great way to break the ice.
Next up, we've got a five minute recap of the big Ruby news from the past month. We focus on the big picture and only cover the big news stories. If you want to get regular news between meetups you should follow @yegrb on Twitter, and check our list of Ruby resources.
- GIS and GeoRails tutorial - Daniel Azuma has been presenting an 8-part tutorial on doing georails.
- RubyHeroes - Who has made a difference to your Ruby experience?
- foreman gem updates
- formtastic 2.1 beta released
- ruby 1.8.7 DoS vulnerability patch
- @darkhelmetlive is doing a t-shirt order. Let him know if you're interested.
- @christiannaths is looking for projects his design students can participate in for his project class. Let him know!
- Jan 18 - DemoCamp Edmonton
- Jan 25 - TedX Talk @Lunch on Re-thinking Open Source Culture
- Jan 27 - Startup Hackathon and Global Gamejam (Early bird until end of Jan. 19th)
- Apr 2-3 - JSConf US 2012 (Early bird tickets on sale January 18th, 2012 at 3:00PM Eastern Time, will sell out)
- Apr 23-25 - RailsConf 2012 (Registration now open)
There's nothing better than landing a sweet Ruby job. Every month we share the latest Ruby and related job announcements with our members. If you're hiring Rubyists let us know!
- Yardstick Software - seeking full-time Rails developer
- Lift - seeking Rails developers for full-time, part-time, contract
- Redman Technologies - seeking senior web developer
The main part of each meetup is the lighting talks. We aim to have 2-3 of these. Each talk lasts 10-minutes with 5-minutes for questions afterwards. We divide the talks into advanced and basic slots; aiming to keep more experienced Rubyists engaged with the advanced talks, without scarying away new comers.
- Nathan Bertram - Rails 3.1 asset pipeline
- Mark Bennett - JavaScript debugging in the trenches
- Sean Ouimet - The Mechanical Turk
Each month we challenge a local developer or company working with Ruby to demonstrate their project. The goal of this segment to to share the real applications being developed with Ruby in Edmonton. The project can be open or closed source, and companies are encouraged to demonstrate their products.
- Brendan Taylor - API client for Inkdit
Each meetup wraps up with a five minute planning session during which we plan the talks for the next month. We encourage members to propose talk topics for other members, but don't be surprised if you end up giving a talk or two yourself.
What talks would you like to see at our next meetup?
The best part of the night for many of our members is after the talks are done, when we head to RATT (map) for food and drinks. We're usually there be 8:30PM and anyone is welcome to join us there once the talks are done.
This is your chance to catch up with other members, ask the questions you couldn't during the talks, or maybe just relax after a tough demo.
If you'd like to know more about upcoming meetups you can see a list of them on our homepage. Hope to see you at YEGrb soon!