September 2014 Meeting
The September 2014 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 8th of September, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Our hosts Skills Matter will be providing the space, at their offices on Goswell Road; The Skills Matter eXchange. Registration details are given below.
Agenda
How not to become a terrible human being once you get a leadership title.
Mazz Mosley says:
You'll never guess what happens next? Mazz will talk about some of the essential skills that good technical leaders exhibit and the information you need to know about to help you become good at leading and not turn into a terrible person. Do you find yourself in a position of leadership and don't know what to do now? Do you think you're a great tech lead? Do you wonder if you're cut out to lead one day? Great, then come and listen to my talk, you may find it more relevant to your interests than you realise.
Bebox - Convention over configuration for puppet repositories
Jairo Diaz says:
Bebox helps automating the provisioning of environments in which Ruby on Rails applications run, easing the reproduction of new server setups every time.
Bebox's main concern is the structure. It is generally a good idea to have conventions about how different source code files are placed and named and be able to use this to reduce the details required to understand a project while also providing automation in key places. These conventions may include things like: how to write puppet modules, how to integrate them into the projects, a directory structure for the projects, how to have a replicated “development/test” environment into virtual machines, etc.
Learn to code in 12 weeks?
Daniel Sun says:
Having recently completed the training phase of WeGotCoders I will present some code from my final project of the 12 week training course / some code recently pulled into Diaspora*. With more and more of us choosing this route, the aim is to show those interested in the 'Immersion' model (either attending a course, or hiring someone who has joined a course) what someone with no prior coding experience can achieve within 12 weeks.
Pub
When the talks finish there's usually lots to mull over and talk about. We have to leave Skills Matter's offices, but we don't stop the meeting; it continues at The Slaughtered Lamb which is a 5 minute walk away. If you are unable to attend the talks, or miss out on a space, come join us for the socialising afterwards.
Registration
To secure a place at the meeting you must register with our hosts Skills Matter. It helps to make sure we have the room laid out with enough chairs, and in extreme cases that we get priority on the larger rooms over other groups using the space on the same night. Also, it's polite (don't forget MINASWAN), so please do register with Skills Matter. Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README.
You can also follow this meeting on lanyrd, but this is not a meaningful way to tell Skills Matter you wish to attend. It's just for the lols, innit?
Posted by Murray Steele on Aug 27, 2014