Re: [activities] Re: SLUG monthly meeting: 29 October 2010

James Polley <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:08:31 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.festivities
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I almost missed this entirely because it wasn't in the SLUG calendar.
> Can we get this fixed, please?

Fixed.

*sigh*

We really need to overhaul the way we do meeting announcements.

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> On 26 October 2010 11:29, James Polley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This meeting is only a few days away. Please remember to sign up at
>> http://slug.eventbrite.com if you're attending - unless we see some
>> more signups today, we'll only be ordering catering for 5 people.
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>> We still have one lightning talk slot available - you can claim it at
>> http://wiki.slug.org.au/october2010lightningtalks
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>> See you Friday!
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>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:36 AM, James Polley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ====== October 2010 SLUG Meeting ======
>>>
>>> ====Location====
>>> Google Sydney - 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont
>>>
>>> ====Summary====
>>>  * Date: Friday October 29 2010
>>>  * Start time: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start
>>>  * Format: Main talk, preceded by social lightning talks
>>>  * == RSVP at [[http://slug.eventbrite.com]] ==
>>>  * Suggest or sign up for a talk on the wiki[1]
>>>
>>>
>>> ==== Details ====
>>> This month we will have one main talk, preceded by some time for
>>> socialisation and lightning talks. To keep the meeting short, we're
>>> only asking for two talks, of a 5-7 minute duration. If you are
>>> interested in talking, please sign up below.
>>>
>>> Don't think you can give a talk, but have an idea for a talk you'd
>>> like to see? Add it to the **Talks I'd like to see** on the wiki page [1]
>>>
>>> === Main Talk ===
>>>
>>> Chris Collins will be giving a talk on Rails 3 [2], covering the
>>> differences between Rails 2.x and Rails 3.0 (and possibly more).
>>>
>>> Rails (more fully,  Ruby on Rails) is one of the most popular web
>>> frameworks amongst the hip Web2.0/Agile Development crowd; the upgrade
>>> to 3.0 is a major step forward, as it sees Rails merging with another
>>> popular framework, Merb.
>>>
>>> === Lightning Talks ===
>>> See the wiki[1] for details of lightning talks, or to suggest or offer
>>> for a talk.
>>>
>>>
>>> === Afterwards ===
>>>
>>> As with September, we'll be aiming to finish by 8 and will be heading
>>> to the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel afterwards.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://wiki.slug.org.au/october2010lightningtalks
>>> [2] http://rubyonrails.org/
>>>
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