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Ara.T.Howard

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Apr 22, 2005, 3:28:47 PM4/22/05
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you know the drill - this is a call for boulder/denver rubyists to get
together and talk shop. drop me a note if you're interested and i'll put
together a list and plan a meeting over coffee, beers, or both ;-)

-a
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Lee Marlow

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Apr 22, 2005, 5:46:28 PM4/22/05
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Ara,

I am definitely interested.

This was brought up back in February on the Rails and someone even volunteered some office space downtown.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/2661

Looking forward to it.

-Lee

Ara.T....@noaa.gov

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Apr 22, 2005, 6:15:34 PM4/22/05
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Lee Marlow wrote:

> Ara,
>
> I am definitely interested.
>
> This was brought up back in February on the Rails and someone even volunteered some office space downtown.
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/2661
>
> Looking forward to it.
>
> -Lee

hi lee-

stuck you on the list. office space would be nice, but a pub/beer sponsor
should would take the cake! any takers? ;-)

cheers.

Jon Raphaelson

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Apr 23, 2005, 3:38:11 AM4/23/05
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Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> you know the drill - this is a call for boulder/denver rubyists to get
> together and talk shop. drop me a note if you're interested and i'll put
> together a list and plan a meeting over coffee, beers, or both ;-)
>
> -a

I'm quite interested actually - closer to Boulder is best for me, but
I'm like 5 minutes from US36 so it's not _that_ far to the highway :D


Aredridel

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Apr 23, 2005, 11:41:29 AM4/23/05
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On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 04:44 +0900, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> you know the drill - this is a call for boulder/denver rubyists to get
> together and talk shop. drop me a note if you're interested and i'll put
> together a list and plan a meeting over coffee, beers, or both ;-)

If something regular forms, I might drop by next time I'm up that way. I
won't be a regular since a 700-mile round trip is a bit much, though.

Ari

Michael Garriss

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Apr 25, 2005, 11:34:08 AM4/25/05
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Aredridel said the following on 04/23/05 08:41:

i'm in boulder and i'd love to talk ruby.

Michael


Ara.T....@noaa.gov

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Apr 25, 2005, 1:11:10 PM4/25/05
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added you to the list michael. i'll send more news soon.

ciao.

Rick Nooner

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Apr 25, 2005, 2:07:30 PM4/25/05
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>On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 04:44 +0900, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
>you know the drill - this is a call for boulder/denver rubyists to get
>together and talk shop. drop me a note if you're interested and i'll put
>together a list and plan a meeting over coffee, beers, or both ;-)
>

I'm interested as well and I'm in Broomfield. I'm currently working on
a VOIP test environment written mostly in Ruby at a local telecom and
would like to touch bases with others using Ruby.

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Rick Nooner
ri...@nooner.net
http://www.nooner.net

Aredridel

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Apr 25, 2005, 2:21:30 PM4/25/05
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Ooh, spiffy stuff. I've been looking at how hard it would be to use
Ruby as a control language for Asterisk. Neat stuff, that.

Rick Nooner

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Apr 25, 2005, 3:17:58 PM4/25/05
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:21:30AM +0900, Aredridel wrote:
>
> Ooh, spiffy stuff. I've been looking at how hard it would be to use
> Ruby as a control language for Asterisk. Neat stuff, that.

Yeah, Asterisk is a cool project and Ruby would make a great control language.

The problem that I've been working on though, revolve around controlling various
pieces of VOIP test equipment in a distributed lab environment and providing a
way of certifying a complete VOIP switching environment that may be made up of
hundreds of computing nodes. Since I have modules that live on each node, it
becomes a big distributed computing problem. There has to be a central system
that controls the testing and report success/problems/failure as well.
Fun stuff :-) and Ruby (with Drb and Rinda) is good at it, too!

This is the first project that I've been able to openly use Ruby and the only
reason that I have the latitude to this is because last year I finished another
distributed systems project under time and under budget using Ruby without
asking permission. This system has required zero maintenance and has been running
since last June. It is made up of over 2000 nodes scattered around the world.

It's sad that companies don't put more faith in their engineering staffs decision
making.

Tom Copeland

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Apr 25, 2005, 3:26:15 PM4/25/05
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On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 04:17 +0900, Rick Nooner wrote:
> The problem that I've been working on though, revolve around controlling various
> pieces of VOIP test equipment in a distributed lab environment and providing a
> way of certifying a complete VOIP switching environment that may be made up of
> hundreds of computing nodes. Since I have modules that live on each node, it
> becomes a big distributed computing problem. There has to be a central system
> that controls the testing and report success/problems/failure as well.
> Fun stuff :-) and Ruby (with Drb and Rinda) is good at it, too!

You might be interested in ACME, which Rich Kilmer wrote to test a
DARPA-funded distributed agent system:

http://acme.cougaar.org/

> This is the first project that I've been able to openly use Ruby and the only
> reason that I have the latitude to this is because last year I finished another
> distributed systems project under time and under budget using Ruby without
> asking permission. This system has required zero maintenance and has been running
> since last June. It is made up of over 2000 nodes scattered around the world.

Yup, Ruby is great for this sort of thing...

Yours,

Tom


jcf...@gmail.com

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Apr 25, 2005, 3:36:03 PM4/25/05
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Hey, cool! I'm in Denver and I'm very interested in joining a Ruby
group.

Rick Nooner

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Apr 25, 2005, 4:04:33 PM4/25/05
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> You might be interested in ACME, which Rich Kilmer wrote to test a
> DARPA-funded distributed agent system:
>
> http://acme.cougaar.org/
>
> Yours,
>
> Tom
>
>

Thanks. I wasn't aware of that project and it is certainly applicable.
In some respects, it is very similar to what I've already implemented.

Rick

Ara.T....@noaa.gov

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Apr 25, 2005, 4:06:06 PM4/25/05
to Rick Nooner

sounds like a great presentation for the first boulder_denver ruby
presentation ;-)

game?

Ara.T....@noaa.gov

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Apr 25, 2005, 4:16:47 PM4/25/05
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, jcf...@gmail.com wrote:

> Hey, cool! I'm in Denver and I'm very interested in joining a Ruby
> group.

great! added you to the list - more to come.

colot...@yahoo.com

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Apr 26, 2005, 3:26:39 PM4/26/05
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I'm in Aurora and I'm interested in meeting fellow Rubyists too.

Thanks,

John Reed

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