[MacRuby-devel] WWDC ?

[Nick Ludlam]

Hey all,
I was just wondering if Laurent or any of the other people involved with MacRuby are planning to be at WWDC.

Nick

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[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Hi Nick,

I'll be there :)

- Johannes

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[Eloy Duran]

I would have loved to come to the WWDC, but unfortunately can't make it... Sorry for the useless answer, just wanted to share my pain ;)

[Nick Ludlam]

Hah, well it turns out that I wasn't quick enough either, and I didn't get tickets. Selling out in under 12 hours is almost like some rock concert.

[Robert Payne]

I'll be there as well!

-Robert

[Christian Niles]

I was able to grab a ticket in time too.

Are there any MacRuby-related events planned yet? If not, we should coordinate an informal meetup.

[Rich Morin]

At 12:36 PM -0700 3/30/11, Christian Niles wrote:
> Are there any MacRuby-related events planned yet?
> If not, we should coordinate an informal meetup.

Works for me, particularly if it's in a venue that's
open to the general public. We can list it on SFRuby
and let folks meet each other...

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[Andre Lewis]

At 12:36 PM -0700 3/30/11, Christian Niles wrote:

> Are there any MacRuby-related events planned yet?
> If not, we should coordinate an informal meetup.

Good idea, it would be cool to meet up with some other MacRubyists.

[Larry Staton Jr.]

I'd be interested in meeting up, too. Looking forward to my first WWDC.

/ls

[Rich Morin]

Looking at http://www.sfruby.info/#upcoming, I don't
see anything scheduled during WWDC (June 6-10). If
the WWDC attendees in the crowd can settle on a date
(ideally, one that works for Jordan and Laurent :-),
I'll be happy to put in the schedule.

I can probably also find a venue for the event; let
me know if this is an issue...

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[Laurent Sansonetti]

(Sorry for the late reply!)

I would be glad to attend any MacRuby meetup during WWDC, and reply to any question and discuss MacRuby's current state and future.

Rich, if you still desire to organize something, please go ahead. Last year I tried to organize something but it was a failure, too many people came and I wasn't able to find a good place. Let's hope it will work out better this year :)

Cheers,
Laurent

[Rich Morin]

At 6:34 PM -0700 4/6/11, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> (Sorry for the late reply!)
>
> I would be glad to attend any MacRuby meetup during WWDC,
> and reply to any question and discuss MacRuby's current
> state and future.
>
> Rich, if you still desire to organize something, please
> go ahead. Last year I tried to organize something but
> it was a failure, too many people came and I wasn't able
> to find a good place. Let's hope it will work out better
> this year :)

Unfortunately, I can't find any schedule information for
the evenings of June 6-9. So, I'm not in a good position
to suggest a date. Would some folks that are attending
please let me know which evenings/times to avoid?

[Laurent Sansonetti]

On Apr 6, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Rich Morin wrote:

> At 6:34 PM -0700 4/6/11, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>> (Sorry for the late reply!)
>>
>> I would be glad to attend any MacRuby meetup during WWDC,
>> and reply to any question and discuss MacRuby's current
>> state and future.
>>
>> Rich, if you still desire to organize something, please
>> go ahead. Last year I tried to organize something but
>> it was a failure, too many people came and I wasn't able
>> to find a good place. Let's hope it will work out better
>> this year :)
>
> Unfortunately, I can't find any schedule information for
> the evenings of June 6-9. So, I'm not in a good position
> to suggest a date. Would some folks that are attending
> please let me know which evenings/times to avoid?

Maybe we should make a quick poll (here + twitter)? I think the biggest challenge here would be to find the venue.

Laurent

[Christian Niles]

Hey Laurent,

How many people came last year? I can start asking around and see if any local companies have the space to host a meetup.

christian.

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi Christian,

According to https://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRubyWWDC09, about 20, but I remember there were many more people coming that night (maybe 2x more). And MacRuby is way more popular this year. I think that if the meetup is properly advertised, at least 50 people will come.

Laurent

[Christian Niles]

50 is easily doable. I've contacted a few companies I know around Moscone who would likely be interested in hosting. I'm pretty sure one of them will be amenable.

Assuming that works out, what are people interested in organizing at the meetup? I'm somewhat partial to happy-hour format, in which drinks and a projector are provided and people can signup for lightening talks in an informal way.

christian.

On Apr 7, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> According to https://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRubyWWDC09, about 20, but I remember there were many more people coming that night (maybe 2x more). And MacRuby is way more popular this year. I think that if the meetup is properly advertised, at least 50 people will come.
>
> Laurent

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[Rich Morin]

At 10:41 AM -0700 4/8/11, Christian Niles wrote:
> ... what are people interested in organizing at the meetup?

Erik Michaels-Ober (@sferik) is willing to do a reprise of
his MacRuby intro talk. This might be a good way for local
Rubyists to get some background information before we start
the regular BOF.

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[Christian Niles]

Weird. I'm friends with Erik and never knew he gave a talk about MacRuby. That makes it easy to convince him to do it :)

[Rich Morin]

At 12:43 PM -0700 4/8/11, Christian Niles wrote:
> Weird. I'm friends with Erik and never knew he gave a talk
> about MacRuby. That makes it easy to convince him to do it :)

He gave it at Ruby on Ales a couple of weeks ago:

Erik Michaels-Ober
Gui Programming with Mac Ruby

-- http://ruby.onales.com/speakers

Last night, he gave a shortened version of it to SFRuby.

[Rich Morin]

It isn't all that easy to find out which evenings are
hammered for WWDC. It appears that:

Mon 6 -
Tue 7 - might conflict w/ Design Awards
Wed 8
Thu 9 - bad; conflicts with WWDC Bash
Fri 10 - bad; many folks are leaving

I realize that lots of folks are loathe to go out on
Monday night (6/6), but that seems like a possibility.

Are there any objections or counter-proposals?

[Christian Niles]

Why Monday instead of Wednesday, out of curiosity?

Pivotal Labs is open to letting us use their offices for the meetup, and can help coordinate things. I'll ask them if either day is available or not, and see if that simplifies the question.

christian.

[Rich Morin]

At 12:15 PM -0700 4/14/11, Christian Niles wrote:
> Why Monday instead of Wednesday, out of curiosity?

no strong reason; just the fact that Mondays tend to
be light on Meetups, so we'd avoid some clashes there

[Christian Niles]

Pivotal has us tentatively on the calendar for Monday June 6th, assuming we want that date. Because of fire codes they can only have 50 attendees though, so we should perhaps most a signup sheet somewhere. I'll create an EventBrite page unless we want to put it on the wiki or the SF Ruby meetup site. If we go over 50 people, we'll either have to start a waiting list, or find another space.

They'll also provide some food, drinks, a videographer and everything else we'd likely need. It'll be great, assuming we all fit in the building :)

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Hi,

just a quick note: Strobe will host a SproutCore Party across the
street from the Moscone Center at Jillian's on Monday night:
http://sproutcorebash.eventbrite.com/

Might be good to keep in mind :)

Cheers,

Johannes

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