DRUG #25
During my leave in beautiful Wrocław, I had a chance to attend DRUG #25 meet-up. DRUG (Dolnośląska Grupa Użytkowników Ruby) is Lower Silesian Ruby user group, and their meetings usually take place once a month.
Andrzej Krzywda introduced me to a non-written rule of DRUG, which states “[i]f it’s your first time then you are presenting a talk”. I presented a quick talk about Travis CI. While it came as no surprise, that everybody knew the topic, it was especially nice to see people asking more detailed questions about current state, the future and sharing what they have done with Travis.
The people I met are tremendous and I will be happy to see them again on Wroclove.rb! Big thanks to all attending and especially to @kolarzowski, @piterniel for having me at their office during my leave. See you all soon!
Railslove at war
Today, January 11th, 2012 – a date which will live in infamy – Railslove was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the dark forces of 9elements.
Railslove was at peace with that nation and looking toward the maintenance of peace. In a brutal attack 9elements took one of the Railslove team members as hostage while being on a friendly mission visiting their headquarters.
It will be recorded that the visit of the Railslove member took place on solicitation of 9elements – it is obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.
Because of this circumstances we are forced to protect ourselves and have to free our team member.
I ask that Railslove declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by 9elements on January 11th, 2012, a state of war has existed between Railslove and 9elements.
Let Paintball Borken be our battleground for this gigantomachia!
proof:
a very Merry Christmas
We wish you all a wonderful christmas time!
reminder: Global Day of Coderetreat Cologne/Bonn 3rd Dez.
The upcoming saturday (Dez. 3rd) is Global Day of Coderetreat. It’s a world-wide event celebrating passion and software craftsmanship.
Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.
You can find more information about the Coderetreat format and the event on the official website. For cologne all the information is on a github wiki and you should follow the office twitter account for updates.
Dear Cologne Rubyists: Your user group needs you!
In November 2005 we’ve started the first Ruby usergroup in cologne. Back then we’ve been 4 people who met for beers. This was nearly exactly 6 years ago. Unfortunately the meetup has soon become inactive – actually I can not remember when that was and how it happened.
After that, I guess in 2007 the rurug.de started with greater success. It was a meetup which first took place in the rooms of the Chaos Computer Club Cologne. Sadly I haven’t participated in that meetup very activly :( *bad bumi*
Early this year the meetup then has moved to cowoco and renewed itself with about 30+ people attending. The following events had been awesome! Great talks and even better discussions. Unfortunatelly, after summer we’ve became very inactive again. Not many people participated on the mailing list and the event hasn’t taken place in the last two months.
WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS!!
And now is the time to rethink the meetup.
I know we have so many awesome ruby developers here in cologne, working on exciting projects!
We need to connect, share, teach in our local ruby community!
Let’s work together to bring back one of the best tech meetups in Cologne!
To get this started again I propose the following things:
- changing the mailing list to something that is more accessible.
This is something I’ve heard several times. The current mailinglist is kinda hard to follow and it’s hard for people to get into the conversation. -this is especially the case for new people.
I also think the mailing list has some spam issues?! - maybe using a google group for now. I do not really like google groups but it works for cologneJS.
- better organizations/archiving of the talk material like slides etc. – obviously ;)
- inviting more speakers
speakers exchange is a great. I herby invite @joshkalderimis from Amsterdam to tell us about travis-ci - meetup for some delicious Glühwein on the christmas market to discuss these things
Date: 14th Dez. 07:00pm at Heumarkt
What do you think? How do you feel about the cologne ruby meetup? Who joins me?
Cologne.rb let’s unite!