---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Abhishek <bigbelie...@gmail.com> Date: 2015-01-02 1:24 GMT+05:30 Subject: [chennai.rb] The year that was - Chennai.rb 2014 review To: "chenna...@googlegroups.com" <chenna...@googlegroups.com>
Hello friends, Best wishes for the new year. Lets take a moment to rewind and see what happened over the last year. The group remained active and many interesting things happened. More people joined, many became regulars. Meet-ups: ------------- We had ten meet-ups over the year, one every month, missing only January and September. (Those two were last moment cancellations.) We have reached a comfortable style and and pace and will be able to continue like that in foreseeable future. Workshops: ---------------- There were two workshops - in August and November. Both were over-subscribed, and volunteers participated with enthusiasm. We are still experimenting with the content/procedures/format, but looks like we'll be able to continue doing one every alternate month. Chat: ------- We experimented with IRC and Slack for chat, Slack worked. The chatroom remains active, the only limitation being - the entry is invitation based. We've tried to work around that by setting up a form on the Chennai-ruby website. Please join if you haven't already. What wasn't good: ------------------------ Participation of ladies was low. It is unfair to expect healthy numbers here since we are ourselves a relatively nascent group, and the problem is industry wide. We did try to make it a point to always stay women and new-comer friendly, (esp. after some unfortunate discussions last year). We did have some pleasant surprises though - there was an all girl team from Kerala that attended the first workshop. Person of the year: Steve Robinson. ------------------------------------------------ The amount of effort and goodwill Steve invested in the group was inspirational. We were almost struggling to keep the group going before he came along. A lot of good steps - meetup.com page, Slack for chat, were his ideas. For a long time we considered his office (Spritle Software) as our default venue. Thanks a ton Steve, its great to have you around. If I had written a similar email last year, the name would have been Vysakh Sreenivasan. Vysakh gave talks when we needed them the most, especially in the few early meet-ups - he can give Ruby introduction talks *in his sleep!* And his celebrity status too helped us get participants to our events and evangelize Ruby in general. If I was allowed to take more name, I'd add Shanth, Gorav, Vijay, Murtza, Hari, Selva, Shrikanth, Sudarshan, Kasinathan, Ravi, Geeth and a few more. Thanks for being supportive, and thanks for being awesome. Next up: ----------- There are many interesting ideas, and quite a few plans. Though its best to let them have a separate thread each, I'll give a short glimpse. 1. Projects: We'll start a few projects on Github and collaborate on them. The projects will be simple Rails applications where newbies can also contribute. And we'll use the code/apps for our activities (One such example is the workshop app[1]) 2. Conference: The idea of doing a conf. has been discussed on and off many times. Since a conference is a sizable endeavor, some scrutiny was necessary. We have a general sort of agreement now, so it stands in need of initiative. I think this is the year we can pull it off. Thanks for reading. Please add anything interesting I may have missed. Happy new year once again. See you at the next meet-up. Regards, Abhishek [1]: https://github.com/chennairb/workshop -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "chennai.rb" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chennairb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
