help build local Ruby Brigades

Seattle.rb has a meeting every week. Once a month they have presentations and the other weeks are dedicated to hacking nights. I have envied this for quite a while and I finally decided to do something about it.

Tuesday, April 4 was the first ever StL.rb hacking night. After announcing it a couple weeks in advance, I spent 3 hours at Borders and 2 other members of StL.rb made it. Borders wasn’t the best place to hold the meetings so next week we are going to try St. Louis Bread Company. Most of you might know it as Panera Bread Company. They didn’t change the name in St. Louis. I guess people might have gotten upset.

I’ve made myself available for hacking any night people want but the weekly hacking nights are going to be on the same weeknight as our regular meeting. Since that is Tuesday, I will be too busy to be jealous of Seattle.rb’s meetings on the same night.

I have contributed to the local ruby brigade and I will be doing more. This task is ongoing and will go on my list of things I have done but want to do again. I primarily need to do this so I can free up space for something else on my list.

I presented r43 and theRPS last night at the local ruby meeting. I seem to have generated interest in theRPS and 43 things as a result. Also, I seem to have spawned a conversation about changing the St. Louis Ruby Users Group to the St. Louis Ruby Brigade (stl.rb) but people seem to think we need to code at our meetings to do it. Since I would like to code at meetings, I am all for that.