[Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] November Ruby Meeting Update

[Marty Haught]

Hi Guys,

I wanted to update everyone on our meeting next Wednesday.
Originally, Marcel Molina was going to fly into Denver a bit early to
present at our meeting.  Unfortunately, he just let me know he's
over-committed and needed to back out.  This leaves us with no
scheduled presentations for next week.  Anyone out there willing to
present with a week's notice?

In other news, due to sufficient prodding, Tim Pease has agreed to
join me in organizing the group.  We've been discussing what to do
with the November meeting and Tim has suggested doing a 'lightning
round' of talks.  A lightning talk, for those of you no familiar with
this concept, is a short talk, usually 5 minutes in length.  We don't
quite need to be so short if you want more like 10-15 minutes.  I
think this idea is a good ones for those of you who might want to
present a short topic but don't feel comfortable with a full hour's
worth of material.  So I encourage you to think about what you might
like to talk about and bring your laptop with whatever you need to do
your mini-talk.

If you don't have a lightning talk per se, let me give you a more
specific idea.  Mind you, it doesn't have to follow this format but if
you're not already inspired here's another idea -- Rails Show and
Tell.  I'd like any of you who are doing something interesting or
different in Rails to show that off.  The premise would be that many
of us in the room might learn some aspect of Rails we didn't already
know as well as it might start up a short conversation on it.  So
don't feel you have to be the authority on whatever it is your
presenting.  You could also think of these as Rails Recipes too.

In summary, my hope is that we'll still have something interesting to
talk with so we don't sit around and stare at me and think how lame
the gathering is. :)

Please email me off list if you would like to do a lightning talk or a
full presentation.  We still have plenty of slots for upcoming months
so if you want to volunteer for a talk later on, that's cool too.

Cheers,
Marty