Rubyists.EU project.

[Julio Javier Cicchelli]

Hi there everybody!

First of all, I really would like to thank Josh Kalderimis from TTY
for hosting such a great evening and, of course, to Pat Allan, Paul
Campbell and Menno van der Sman for giving very enlightening
presentations.

Also during the event, in a quite improvised fashion, Wes and me have
decided to present to our community the project that was born during
our last meet-up: Rubyists.eu! This project aims to brings Rubyists
all around Europe together. Although there are numerous Ruby User
Groups scattered all across Europe, very few of them are aware of one
another’s web presence. Such unawareness may limit communications,
cooperation, and collaboration among Rubyists. This initiative,
however, bravely aims at overcoming the obstacles and make Europe
reachable for everyone of us.

Rubyists.eu wants to give visibility to all those Ruby groups
distributed all around Europe and respectively, to themselves.
Enthusiastic Ruby hackers have the opportunity to join new Ruby
communities, share details about their regular group meetups, bring
interesting events to the attention of others, announce special
presentations, make groundbreaking Ruby advancements known, or simply
publish the pioneering Ruby projects they are working on. Hopefully,
by forging bonds, European Rubyists could foster a sense of belonging
to something more than just our local Ruby world.

If you would like to contribute to the first Amsterdam.rb project,
please check the project's Github account at http://github.com/rubyists-eu/rubyists-eu
or you can also check our live version (hosted in Heroku) at http://rubyists.eu.

You can help us build one of the coolest sites for the European
Rubyists out there (probably somebody who somewhere else will be
inspired and adapt it to their own continent!).

We are really looking forward to hear your feedback, suggestions or
comments about this project.

Best regards,
Javier.-

[Wes Oldenbeuving]

Forked and writing code! :)

-Wes

--
Wes Oldenbeuving
Freelance Rubyist @ http://narnach.com
Mobile: +31 648 779 786
Twitter: @Narnach

[Harm]

I want to place a pin... does that mean I have to start writing code?

> > please check the project's Github account athttp://github.com/rubyists-eu/rubyists-eu
> > or you can also check our live version (hosted in Heroku) athttp://rubyists.eu.

>
> > You can help us build one of the coolest sites for the European
> > Rubyists out there (probably somebody who somewhere else will be
> > inspired and adapt it to their own continent!).
>
> > We are really looking forward to hear your feedback, suggestions or
> > comments about this project.
>
> > Best regards,
> > Javier.-
>
> --
> Wes Oldenbeuving

> Freelance Rubyist @http://narnach.com

[Julio Javier Cicchelli]

Hi there Harm!

You don't need to code in order to have Utrecht.rb on the map. You can
do it as a user of the site :P

Rock On!
Javier.-

[Wes Oldenbeuving]

Hi Harm,

I just pushed some code live that allows pin placement, but the
interface for this is a bit crude.
I've also pushed pins in for Amsterdam.rb, Utrecht.rb and DenHaag.rb.

You don't have to write code, but if you want there is a link on the
website that takes you to Github.

Cheers,

Wes

Freelance Rubyist @ http://narnach.com

[Julio Javier Cicchelli]

Hi there again,

Tonight I'll dedicated a couple of hours on making it a little bit
nicer :P

Rock On!
Javier.-

[Jean-François Trân]

2009/10/13 Julio Javier Cicchelli :

Hello Javier and everybody,

I'm Jean-François Trân, from Ruby France, a french Ruby
user group : http://www.rubyfrance.org

> Also during the event, in a quite improvised fashion, Wes and me
> have decided to present to our community the project that was
> born during our last meet-up: Rubyists.eu! This project aims to
> brings Rubyists all around Europe together.

I had exactly the similar idea ! :) I was thinking about a place
where european Rubyists could talk and discuss together,
and also announce their events. The differences are that
I called that "Europa.rb", the second one is that this was
mostly based on a mailing-list (well a Google Group), rather
than a website.

But both can be complementary

> Although there are numerous Ruby User Groups scattered
> all across Europe, very few of them are aware of one
> another’s web presence. Such unawareness
> may limit communications, cooperation, and collaboration
> among Rubyists. This initiative, however, bravely aims
> at overcoming the obstacles and make Europe
> reachable for everyone of us.

That's true, but don't you also think we need a list
where we could discuss about all that ? The mailing-list
could also be used to launch ideas about collaboration !

> Rubyists.eu wants to give visibility to all those Ruby
> groups distributed all around Europe and respectively,
> to themselves. Enthusiastic Ruby hackers have the
> opportunity to join new Ruby communities, share details
> about their regular group meetups, bring
> interesting events to the attention of others, announce special
> presentations, make groundbreaking Ruby advancements
> known, or simply publish the pioneering Ruby projects
> they are working on. Hopefully, by forging bonds, European
> Rubyists could foster a sense of belonging
> to something more than just our local Ruby world.

I agree, I also think that subscribing a common mailing-list
will also give the feeling to be part of a bigger group, the
Ruby community in Europe.

I've just taken the initiative to create this mailing-list,
as a Google Group, and instead of calling it europa-rb,
I followed your name : rubyi...@googlegroups.com

So please, come and subscribe to :

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyists-eu

We could then announce it on other european ruby
mailing-lists (such as mine in France).

> If you would like to contribute to the first
> Amsterdam.rb project, please check the project's
> Github account at http://github.com/rubyists-eu/rubyists-eu
> or you can also check our live version (hosted in
Heroku) at http://rubyists.eu.

Thanks for that ! But I'm not sure that the home page
should be a map, an events calendar couldn't be
shown at first ?

> You can help us build one of the coolest sites for
> the European Rubyists out there (probably somebody
> who somewhere else will be inspired and adapt it to
> their own continent!).
> We are really looking forward to hear your feedback,
> suggestions or comments about this project.

I'm happy to find people to share the same goal,
even though our means were little different, but
it doesn't matter all, if we can have a place where
english, irish, spanish, italien, polish, swedish...
and so on, could discuss about the way they
organize Ruby events and meet-ups, find ways
to collaborate, it would be surely veru successful.

Regards,

-- Jean-François.

(please subscribe to m-l
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyists-eu !)

--
http://twitter.com/underflow_

[Julio Javier Cicchelli]

Salut Jean-Francois, ça va? J'espère que vous est très bien la ba!

First of all, we really like to thank you for contacting us regarding this project we've just started. Even tough our idea to implement this project is slightly different, the final goal we're aiming to are exactly the same. Fair enough by me.

Thanks for choosing the Rubyists.EU name over Europa.rb. I've to admit that Europa is a great name that comes from the Greek Mythology but anyway ;)

Of course, our visions are perfectly complementary. I'll create a link to the mailing list from the Rubyists.EU website.

The first phase in our project is to put the European Ruby User Groups on the map (literally) but we're aiming to extend its functionality for the projects each group are working on, meet-up or special events (such as conferences, special meetings, bar camps, etc.) or even integrate the different Social Networking services each group is using (such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google Groups). In any case, a lot of things should be studied, analyzed and defined in our roadmap. We consider the final goal is honorable and worth the time and effort.

Europe have a great advantage: more than 50 countries and a complex mosaic of cultures (and points of views!) in such a small extension of territory. Even tough some people perceives this as the perfect chaos, with a little bit of communication, great things can come out of it. I believe we need to get out of isolation and start working together on our ideas.

A+

Javier.-

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[Wes Oldenbeuving]

Hi François,

I really like the pan-european mailing list. I'll forward the info to
utrecht.rb (utrecht-rb google group) so we can try to get them on
there as well. Getting everyone on the list would be awesome. But if
we can get at least the community leaders on the list, we can at least
notify each other of local ruby user meetups and special events.

I've added the mailing list link to the rubyists.eu website.

Cheers,

Wes