Looking for talks - July meetup and onward

[Tobias Pfeiffer]

Hello everyone,

this is basically a repost of our previous looking for talks email - the backlog for July and onward is rather empty. No talks - no meetup. We need you and your talks and ideas to run a successful meetup :)

We love having first time speakers - I strongly believe of the purpose of this user group to be a safe space for people new to speaking at meetups. Hell, I've given my first public talk here (11 years ago...). Or to do practice runs for talks.

While I know we have a lot of very high quality talks, not every talk needs to be super polished. Hell, I've given talks I threw together in an hour before or comprised of terrible drawings.

And perhaps most importantly, while we are the Ruby user group we always welcomed a wide array of topics as long as they are at least a bit related to Ruby/programming/web development:

* other programming languages, be welcome!

* social & leadership skills, health topics - we'd love to hear about it!

* game development, embedded systems...

* but of course we also love our Ruby :)

* ...your imagination is the limit! Just get in touch and ask us!

Hell, I've given talks about Crystal and how Go (game!) engines work!

If you're unsure about a talk or topic just feel free to reach out and we can talk about it. But, I'll most likely tell you it's a good idea anyhow because it is... even if something was shown before, what wasn't shown before is your unique perspective formed by your unique experiences.

Anyhow :D You can submit talks on the website with a small abstract (after logging in): https://www.rug-b.de/topics/new

Cheers + thanks,

Tobi