[Brug-admin] Post-FOSDEM momentum

[Nicolas Jacobeus]

Hello all,

I'm also in favor of most of the ideas proposed by Peter. I  
particularly like the idea of informal, OpenCoffee-like monthly  
meetings.

Let's pick a date in March for an IRL discussion about this...  
(doodle.ch anyone?)

Nicolas

On 26 Feb 2008, at 12:42, Tom Klaasen wrote:

> +1 for the IRL meetings. It's a lot easier to discuss (and dream) if  
> you can see each other.
>
> The first meeting could be used to discuss the first 'workshop'...
>
> kr,
>
>
> On 2/26/08, Peter Vanbroekhoven <peter at xaop.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The devroom at FOSDEM was quite successful, so cheers on that. After
> FOSDEM we had 15-20 more subscribers to brug-talk than before  
> FOSDEM, so
> some people already took the bait. So all's well. But...
>
> It isn't the time to sit still. We should use the momentum we've built
> to keep going. But enough motivational talk...
>
> First off, there has been a gap of almost 5 months between the first
> BRUG meeting and the FOSDEM devroom. I'm probably not alone in  
> thinking
> that this is a bit too much. I'm not saying that we should have an  
> event
> like FOSDEM every month, but I still think we should meet more often.
> The way I see it now, we could discern the following categories of  
> meet-ups:
>
> * Regular BRUG get-together: a monthly meeting in a cafe or so where  
> we
> can talk about Ruby, life, anything we want. No pressure to attend  
> each
> time, no pressure on topics, just getting together and socialize. This
> should be low overhead, i.e., we pick a date and come who can/wants  
> to come.
> * More formal BRUG meetings: these could be anything, from hackatons  
> to
> semi-formal presentations. I wouldn't put the pressure on this one
> either, but rather do this when it arises. So if someone feels like
> giving a presentation, we could organize a meeting. If someone wants  
> to
> kick off a new project and is looking for a few fellow developers to
> help, we could organize a coding session. I'm sure at some point we  
> all
> have thought about implementing a small utility, a Ruby lib or a Rails
> plugin. These coding sessions are great to kick such a project into
> gear; it's surprising what a few motivated programmer's can put  
> together
> in a few hours. It's how Rubygems got started :-)
> * Formal seminars: I was thinking along the lines of some of the  
> events
> organized by SAI, i.e., http://www.sai.be/nl/eventdetail.aspx? 
> ev_id=153
> . We could advertise this to companies and such. This could be an
> important vehicle in promoting Ruby in Belgium. Many companies see  
> Ruby
> as a hype and are thus hesitant to jump on the bandwagon out of fear  
> of
> investing in a fad that will be over before they got back what they
> invested in it. We should convince them that it is worth it. Once we  
> get
> going, we could even invite prominent speakers (although then we'll  
> need
> to charge for it probably).
> * The big guns: once we get going, we can organize bigger events like
> half/one-day conferences. This one is still way off in the future, but
> it is something to keep an eye on. We already did this in the form of
> FOSDEM, but I was thinking about something stand-alone, something we
> advertise to companies.
> * BRUG-admin meetings: although we can have discussions online,  
> nothing
> beats a real-life meeting where you can brainstorm on important
> issue/decisions.
>
> My feeling tells me that the first and last type of meeting could very
> well turn out to end up the same. It's likely to be the hardcore  
> group.
> But anyway, it would be nice if we could get these regular meet-ups
> going. Because we don't need any infrastructure for it, we can easily
> vary the location.
>
> Another important thing is to build a decent website. Currently, we  
> have
> some information online, but it's certainly not sufficient. Instiki  
> was
> great to quickly get some information online, but it is certainly  
> not a
> durable solution. I think we need to brainstorm on what we will need  
> to
> build a decent website. I would like to organize a BRUG-admin meeting
> for this in 2 or 3 weeks time. And then have the first regular BRUG
> meeting a few weeks after that, just to start going. Sound reasonable?
>
> Peter
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