February 2009 Meeting

The next meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 9th of February, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. As usual our hosts Skills Matter will provide the space, either at their offices or their overflow venue, depending on the number of registrations. So make sure that you do register your attendance to help them choose and so you can be let into the venue.

Agenda

This month (just like we did last February) we’re going to have a series of lightning talks in the 20x20 slide format. For those who didn’t attend last year, or aren’t familiar with the format is: the presenter has 20 slides which are displayed for 20 seconds each, giving a total presentation time of 6:40. Last year it was a really fun evening as we got to hear about a load of different stuff and with only 6:40 in which to get their point across the presenters maybe didn’t have enough time to fully justify their positions. It made for some interesting questions at the end!

Those brave volunteers are:

Twit 4 Dead

Tom Armitage:

His Twit 4 Dead bots (Francis, Louis, Zoey & Bill).

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : His Twit 4 Dead bots (Francis, Louis, Zoey & Bill)

Cry for help

Julian Burgess:

Cry for help - an anti talk?

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : A cry for help - an anti talk?

rubysmokes

Steve Ganly:

A proposal for smoke testing ruby

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Ruby Smokes - A proposal for smoke testing ruby

All the ruby that’s fit to merge

Richard Livsey:

All the ruby that’s fit to merge: Rails 3.0 & Merb 2.0

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : All the ruby that’s fit to merge: Rails 3.0 & Merb 2.0

Scientific Ruby

Chris Lowis:

Ruby and the GNU Scientific Library and/or R.

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Ruby and the GNU Scientific Library and/or R

dpkg-tools

Matt Patterson:

A talk about dpkg-tools.

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : dpkg-tools

Ruby and XMPP

Thomas Pomfret:

Ruby and XMPP.

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Ruby and XMPP

rubygame

Roland Swingler:

Something about rubygame.

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Something about rubygame

ruby-debug

Tom ten Thij:

Debugging with ruby-debug.

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Debugging with ruby-debug

Pub

After that many presentations there’s bound to be a lot to talk about, so we’ll make our way to The Crown Tavern. This pub is really close to either of the venues we use for our meetings and is perfect for a post-meeting chat and drink. If you can’t make it to the meeting, but still fancy some ruby chat, just head along to the pub and we’ll be the ones crowding the bar from about 8:00pm onwards.

Registration

Please register with Skills Matter if you are planning to come. As we mentioned above, they need us to register for fire-regulations and making sure we get the best sized room for the number of attendees.

There’s also an upcoming event for those of us that love online calendaring, but this is not a place to indicate attendance in a meaningful way for Skills Matter.

Posted by Murray Steele on Jan 20, 2009