[Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Boulder-Denver Ruby Group - February Meeting

[Marty Haught]

Hello Everyone,

First, I want to thank everyone who came out to our meet-and-greet at
the Southern Sun.  We had nearly 30 people show up, way more than our
two tables could handle.  Hopefully each of you got to chat with some
of the other folks who showed up.  I was actually a bit worried that
they wouldn't be able to accommodate our needs but the table situation
was about as ideal as we could have hoped for.  Though I believe a lot
of you had fun, we will not use this format for future meetings as
conversations could only be heard by a few people at a time.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, February 15th.  The guys over
at Collective Intellect have volunteered use of one of their large
conference rooms for the meeting.  It is located in the Mobius
building (36 and McCaslin - directions down below).  The room will
have table space for 20 as well as outlets for your laptops and
ethernet jacks if you want internet.  There is a wireless network in
the coffee shop below them that is wide open if you prefer.  There is
additional couch seating along the walls for another 10, plus
additional chairs can be brought in.

Our format for the night will fairly easy going.  At 6pm we'll have
networking session with pizza (compliments Collective Intellect).  At
7pm we'll kick off the meeting with some short announcements. 
Afterwards David Alan Black will be speaking on a topic yet to be
decided (though will probably relate to his new book on Rails for
Manning).  For those of you who don't know David, he's been a leader
in the Ruby community for some time now.  He and Chad run Ruby Central
and put on the annual RubyConf.   I'll post a short bio on him down
below the directions if you want to know more about David (copied from
Manning's site).  We'll have plenty of time for discussion with David
afterwards so it won't be too formal.  We will be done by 9pm at the
latest though I believe some of us will migrate down to Old Chicago
afterwards.  It should be a good time so I hope to see you all there.

I know that I mentioned this to several of you last night but I'm a
big fan of good software conferences.  I saw notice of this a couple
of days ago and I encourage you all to check it out, if you haven't
already.

http://www.waterfall2006.com/

Cheers,
Marty


Directions:
Mobius Building
100 Superior Plaza Way, Suite 200
Superior, CO 80027

URL to google maps:
http://tinyurl.com/dc9be

Enter through the door between the Superior Liquor store and Super Joe
Coffee (marked Mobius/Return Path).  Go up the stairs (we'll have
someone at the door, since it is locked at that hour) and it's the
first conference room on your right, marked "Demonstration Room".


David A. Black, a leader in the Ruby community, has programmed Ruby
for over five years, and Rails applications since 2004. He is a
founding director of Ruby Central, Inc., parent organization of the
annual International Ruby Conference (RubyConf) and the first annual
official International Rails Conference. He is a Ruby core
contributor, creator and maintainer of the Rails-based Ruby Change
Request Archive (RCRchive), and the chief developer of the Rails
applications behind the Ruby FAQ.