Tonight at 6pm: Introduction to jRuby

[Michael Prendergast]

Hi everyone,

Just a quick reminder: Tonight at 6pm Kangqing Yu will be teaching us about jRuby in his Introduction to jRuby talk.

• Mingling starts at 6pm
  
• Food kindly sponsored by Fullscript (they're hiring)
  
• Space kindly sponsored by Shopify (they're also hiring)
  
• Snacks, non-alcoholic drinks, and meetup fees kindly sponsored by SpeedyRails (they're hiring, too)
  

If you haven't RSVP'd yet and are planning on attending, please do so here, so we can plan things out:

  --> https://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/dzvdppyxhbvb/

Meetup details are below, and also on the above page.

Hope to see you all there!

Thanks,

The Ottawa Ruby Team

P.S. We're looking for talks for the months ahead. If you'd like to give a talk, please let us know via the Ottawa Ruby Talk Proposal Form.

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Subject: Wednesday (May 16th): Introduction to jRuby
To: Ottawa Ruby

Hey all,

Wednesday (May 16th) at 6pm, Kangqing Yu will be giving us an Introduction to jRuby.

Here's the description:

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Introduction to jRuby, by Kangqing Yu

The talk will focus on two parts. The first is the jRuby language itself and some usage. The other is jRuby applications, including jRuby on Rails.

Get in touch with Kangqing:

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- Kangqing on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonykq/

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Plan on attending? Please RSVP via the link below, so that our kind sponsors can plan accordingly.

--> https://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/dzvdppyxhbvb/

2. Agenda

The meetup starts at 6pm.

For the first 30 minutes, there will be mingling over food and drinks. :)

The talk starts after the mingling portion of the evening.

3. Food and drinks sponsored by Fullscript

Big thank you to Fullscript, who will be providing the food for the evening.

Fullscript is an online dispensary platform that helps health care practitioners dispense professional-grade supplements, without the need to store and manage their own inventory.

And Fullscript is hiring for various positions, see the available positions here.

4. Space sponsored by Shopify

Another big thank you goes out to Shopify for providing the venue to host the meetup.

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that provides the tools to set up an online shop and sell anything online, on social media, or in person.

Shopify is hiring various positions as well, check out their openings here.

5. Drinks, Snacks and meetup fees sponsored by SpeedyRails

Big thank you also to SpeedyRails, who will be providing the non-alcoholic drinks & snacks for the evening, and for also sponsoring the Meetup fees!

SpeedyRails offers a cloud-hosting platform for Rails developers, with Canadian and US Datacenters, CDNs, plus add-on DevOps Support. 

And SpeedyRails is hiring a Full-Stack Developer, learn more about the position here.

6. Plan on attending?

Please RSVP here to let us know so we can plan things out.

7. Call for speakers

We're always looking for speakers/topics. If you're up for giving a talk, please feel free to submit your talk proposal via the Ottawa Ruby Talk Proposal form.

Thanks, we hope to see you all there!

The Ottawa Ruby Team

P.S. If you’d like to attend on Wednesday and get an Introduction to jRuby, please do be sure to RSVP here:

--> https://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/dzvdppyxhbvb/