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Tonight was my last time playing M.C. and general Recreational Coordinator for the Phoenix Ruby User Group.
For assorted reasons I decided that five years of trying to coordinate a regular monthly gathering of “Valley of the Sun” Rubyists was just about enough.
I, of course, am still using Ruby and JRuby, and while I certainly have interests in other language I don’t foresee dropping Ruby anytime soon. Ruby-centric gatherings, on the other hand, maybe not so interesting anymore.
This means, of course, that someone needs to step up and take the reins to keep things rolling. I’ve already spoken to a few people, but (perhaps not surprisingly) there were no takers. You have to show up to every meeting. You have to cajole people into giving talks (and not just saying they’d “like” to give a talk.) You need to make timely announcement on the group list. Mostly you need to want to see a strong, unified Phoenix Ruby community. I’ve done my bit. Time for someone else.
Meanwhile, the next stop on my Grand Excursion into Everything Interesting is hardware hacking. I’ve starting making arrangements for a Scottsdale Arduino group, but on the advice of Greg Furmanek it looks like having it be a general hardware hacking group makes more sense. (Big win: it can accommodate not just my interest in Arduino, but in circuit-bending as well :) ).
I’ll post more info on that as details are sorted out, but so far the plans are to meet on the first Monday of each month, starting in November.
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