Hi all, Thanks for joining up to this list. I wanted to have some open discussion as to what a Ruby Users Group might look like here in NYC, so let me float...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Dec 3, 2003 3:42 am
Two things: 1. I think I can actually get a space at my office. Probably this would start in January, but if we met on a Thursday, from (say) 6-9, would this...
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wm_l_anderson
Dec 8, 2003 5:07 pm
Francis: great to hear from you. So, I would love to really learn Ruby and improve my programming skills. However, Thurs eves are out for me -- yoga class. My...
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Christian Taubman
xtiantaubman
Dec 16, 2003 1:45 pm
OK, I'll bite too. I work at IFS (http://www.imsi.com), a company that provides fund administration services for hedge funds. Before that, I worked at a small...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Jan 28, 2004 6:11 am
Hi all, January's been a crazy month, but I want to get things started for February. We're going to meet on a Thursday (sorry, Bill A.). For the venue I've got...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Feb 3, 2004 2:53 am
Hi everybody, I would like to have our first meeting on Thursday, Feb 27. This will be a pretty informal introductory meeting. I figure we'll order pizza and...
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Robert McKinnon
rob_m_mckinnon@...
Feb 3, 2004 4:37 pm
Hi Francis, I assume that you mean Thursday, Feb 26. This day clashes with the NYSIA Open Source SIG: <http://www.nysia.org/events/2004/eve200402.cfm#26> May I...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Feb 4, 2004 12:44 pm
Hm, I certainly don't want to conflict with an Open Source SIG meeting. Let's set the date at the Thursday before: Thu, Feb 19. Please let me know how that...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Feb 10, 2004 10:14 pm
Okay, the first meeting's set. Thursday, February 19 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. AGENDA: This will be a pretty informal introductory meeting. I figure we'll chat about...
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David A. Black
wobblini
Feb 12, 2004 3:55 pm
Hi -- ... I'm planning to come. David -- David A. Black dblack@......
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Robert McKinnon
rob_m_mckinnon@...
Feb 12, 2004 7:57 pm
I'm planning to come. Francis, thanks for organizing this. -- Rob PS: For some pre-meeting reading I recommend the Ruby articles section on the Artima site...
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Roger Sperberg
rsperberg
Feb 16, 2004 11:03 pm
I'm very glad to hear of a Ruby meeting in NYC. I am not a programmer, but as someone who works with XML conversions have had to become familiar with XSLT and...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Feb 17, 2004 2:16 pm
Hi Roger, Thanks for stopping in, virtually speaking. Thursday nights are not necessarily permanent in the schedule -- in fact, you're the 2nd person to tell...
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matthew_lipper
Feb 17, 2004 7:10 pm
Hey - I'm not sure yet whether I'll be able to make it on Thursday, but figured I'd say a quick 'hello' to everyone... Matt info@......
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Feb 21, 2004 12:49 am
Hi everybody, Yesterday's meeting was small, but a good start. In attendance was Roger Sperberg, Robert McKinnon, and myself, and we talked about our own level...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Mar 4, 2004 11:13 pm
Hi friends, I would like to schedule the next meeting for either Thursday, March 18, or Thursday, March 25. It will be in the same location; at the New Museum...
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Robert McKinnon
rob_m_mckinnon
Mar 9, 2004 9:20 pm
Hi Francis, Either Thursday is good for me. You mentioned that you where creating blog content in RSS and had some Ruby code + XSL that created the HTML. Is...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Mar 10, 2004 2:27 am
Hey Rob, My website code is very much in alpha -- it doesn't even fully work for me yet, so there isn't much point really in releasing it. But it's all on my...
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handfield1
Mar 10, 2004 6:25 am
Hello, I just stumbled across this group. I'm finally trying to get back into Ruby after going to the Ruby Conf last year and meeting Francis there. I can make...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Mar 13, 2004 2:43 am
Here comes the 2nd meeting! Whoo-haa! Thursday, March 25 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. AGENDA: I'm going to give a tiny (15-30 minutes) talk about Lafcadio. Some of you...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Mar 17, 2004 3:23 am
Hi, Rhizome.org, the arts non-profit I work at, has enough funding so I can hire a consultant to work with me for a little while ... This isn't a traditional...
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Binod Sundararajan
tamrajsat
Mar 21, 2004 4:58 pm
Hi All, I came to this group via the NY area ruby users group link. I'm a grad student at Rensselaer in upstate NY and am not an expert programmer. I'm in my...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Mar 23, 2004 2:43 am
Hi Binod, One of the secrets that expert programmers know is that most computer problems are pretty darned easy, if you only know how to break them down into...
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Binod Sundararajan
tamrajsat
Mar 23, 2004 6:15 am
Hi Francis, Thanks for your reply. You are correct. I will be using UCINET - a social network analysis software tool to do steps 3 & 4. I have been using that...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Mar 24, 2004 8:27 pm
Sorry to repeat myself, but I just wanted to remind everyone that meeting 2 is Thursday, Mar 25, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. That's, like, tomorrow, dude. Hope to...
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Robert McKinnon
rob_m_mckinnon
Mar 26, 2004 10:06 pm
Hi Francis, Thanks for organsing the meeting last night. Good to see the group almost double in size. :-) Unfortunately I wasn't able to get permission to host...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Mar 30, 2004 4:13 am
Meeting 2 had 5 people show up: Myself, Matt Lipper, Jay Handfield, Patrick May, and Rob McKinnon. That's a 66% increase from last month! Wow! I did a very...
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Zoran Lazarevic
zoranlazarevic
Mar 30, 2004 5:11 pm
I am sorry I missed your last meeting. I wish I knew about the group earlier. There is some meeting space at my church (W26St & Bway), but the heating is not...
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Felix Zaslavskiy
felix9x
Apr 3, 2004 3:57 pm
Hello everyone. I was surprised to find out there was a ruby group in NYC. I have been writing php for a while now and even though its great for web stuff its...
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Francis Hwang
francishwang
Apr 3, 2004 8:11 pm
Hi Zoran, Thanks for the offer. I do think, though, that wherever we meet needs to have a broadband connection for us all to hook up to, and I know that...
