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Marcus Baw

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Feb 13, 2014, 8:40:19 AM2/13/14
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Eve, I’m only a pretend Rubyist (being a GP who’s teaching myself Ruby/Rails) but I work in the Prison sector a bit, and what you’re doing here with young offenders is fantastic! I’m Manchester based but if there’s a way I could help I’d love to.

Marcus

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    Eve Barabas <be.s...@gmail.com> Feb 12 09:06AM -0800  

    Hello all,
     
    Sheffield Rubyist here, would be interested to meet some of you at the next
    meeting so I am just going to dive into it with a lightning talk if that
    would be okay with you.
    Experiences in mentoring a young
    offender: http://www.yoomee.com/teaching-young-offenders-to-code-update
     
    Cheers :)
     
    On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:52:08 UTC, Tekin Suleyman wrote:
     
    Tekin Suleyman <te...@tekin.co.uk> Feb 12 05:57PM  

    Great stuff Eve, I’ll add you to the list. Full announcement of the event will go out tomorrow.
     
    Tekin
     
     

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Ian Moss

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Feb 13, 2014, 10:57:27 AM2/13/14
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Hey Marcus, would love to know more about your motivation behind learning RoR.
Have you made it to the Health 2.0 meetup - I've found it to a fantastic group, with alsorts of stakeholders in the room at the same time. I'm really interested in patient <-> GP communication & health monitoring systems, and the work that's going on it that area.

Cheers,
Ian.
 

Marcus Baw

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Feb 13, 2014, 5:17:39 PM2/13/14
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Hi Ian, I learned RoR after doing some Codecademy stuff (HTML/CSS/JS then Python etc) but after a bit of Python I found it quite ugly as a language, Ruby being far prettier (sorry if that’s a dumb thing to say but beauty in a language is important) - also I knew some debs from NHS Hack Day and the Pythoneers were a bit dull, whereas the Rubyists were cooler ;-) (again, dumb, but true). Rails seemed attractive in terms of building web apps quickly and less painfully.

I’m currently involved in doing some BDD work in Cucumber for an open source healthcare company, and in spare time I’m trying to get involved with a ruby implementation of the openEHR specification for interoperable health records (github skoba/openehr-ruby). I know a fair bit about openEHR but am not quite good enough to be able to meaningfully help yet, although since the main guy Skoba is Japanese I’ve been helping with his documentation. He merged my first pull request today :-)

I’ve not been to Health 2.0 but it sounds good. Maybe I’ll try to make it there next time.

I have a lot of clinical experience and contacts/resources in the Digital Health area and would love to meet & work with local Rubyists.

M


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    Eve, I’m only a pretend Rubyist (being a GP who’s teaching myself Ruby/Rails) but I work in the Prison sector a bit, and what you’re doing here with young offenders is fantastic! I’m Manchester based but if there’s a way I could help I’d love to.
     
    Marcus
     
     

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      Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:40:19 +0000
       
       
       
      Eve, I’m only a pretend Rubyist (being a GP who’s teaching myself
      Ruby/Rails) but I work in the Prison sector a bit, and what you’re
      doing here with young offenders is fantastic! I’m Manchester based but
      if there’s a way I could help I’d love to.
       
       
       
      Marcus
       
       
       
      On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:39, [4]nwrug-...@googlegroups.com wrote:
       
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      Hello all,
       
      Sheffield Rubyist here, would be interested to meet some of you at
      the next
      meeting so I am just going to dive into it with a lightning talk if
      that
      would be okay with you.
      Experiences in mentoring a young
      offender:

       
      Cheers :)
       
      On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:52:08 UTC, Tekin Suleyman wrote:
       

      Great stuff Eve, I’ll add you to the list. Full announcement of
      the event will go out tomorrow.
       
      Tekin
       
       
       
       
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    Eve Barabas

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    Feb 14, 2014, 7:41:12 AM2/14/14
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    Hello Marcus, 

    What you do is quite amazing! Thanks for your interest in my volunteering, however the brain behind the movement is Andy Mayer from Yoomee (http://www.yoomee.com/) who is working on expanding the programme further. I will let you know if anything is happening around Manchester.

    Cheers, 
                Eve
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