atlrug giveback announcements - nov 2014

ATLRUG GivebackAnnouncements – Nov. 2014

● Previous Events/Projects– October 2014 Hack Day: 9 of 19 registered people

attended.● 2 experience worked on 1 Railsgoat issue● 3 experienced worked with 4 newbies

– Local Rails Hackathon project: Peace Corps' Medlink project featured in:

● http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/10/31/keeping-peace-corps-volunteers-healthy-one-text-time-0● https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/10/peace-corps-medlink-twilio-sms-nt.html

– Any Georgia-based Rails Rumble teams?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/10/31/keeping-peace-corps-volunteers-healthy-one-text-time-0

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/10/peace-corps-medlink-twilio-sms-nt.html


● Active Project– ATLRUG: Surplus Mac Minis – Actively awarding the mac

minis (10 awarded, 8 distributed; 7 machines dev env set up (1 refused))

● UPDATE: 11/12/2014: Distributed the final 2 machines.

– ATLRUG web site: maintained and stable

By Al Snow – [email protected] - Keeping web sites upgraded and up-to-date.

mailto:[email protected]


● Upcoming Community Events – Nov.14-15: Govathon: https://nvite.com/govathon/ab9– Nov.15: RailsLearning's "Learning Ruby" (non-free) online class starts:

http://rubylearning.com/blog/2014/10/26/learn-ruby-programming-57th-batch– Nov.15: Global Day of Coding - http://globalday.coderetreat.org

● Atlanta: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-day-of-code-retreat-2014-atlanta-ga-tickets-13727670833● Athens: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/athens-code-retreat-2014-global-day-of-code-retreat-tickets-13708635899

– Nov.19: James' Intermediate Ruby Meeting - http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/218627008– Nov.20: Nerd Club - http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/209059442– Nov.22: Emerald City (our bi-monthly Rails Study Group)

● Using Rails Tutorial (draft/Rails 4.2) book. Finished Chapter 2 last class.● Next time is Nov.22 at 10am at Georgia Gwinnett College. - http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/211094802

– Nov.25: Code for Atlanta/Hack Night - http://www.meetup.com/codeforatlanta/events/206687762– Dec.1-24: “24 Pull Request” program - http://www.24pullrequests.com

https://nvite.com/govathon/ab9

http://rubylearning.com/blog/2014/10/26/learn-ruby-programming-57th-batch

http://globalday.coderetreat.org/

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-day-of-code-retreat-2014-atlanta-ga-tickets-13727670833

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/athens-code-retreat-2014-global-day-of-code-retreat-tickets-13708635899

http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/218627008



http://www.meetup.com/codeforatlanta/events/206687762

http://www.24pullrequests.com/


● Other Groups– “Rails Girls” meetup group

– "Women Who Code Atlanta" meetup group

– "Alpaharetta Railers Coders" meetup group

– "CoderDojo (PonceSprings)" meetup group

– “Code for Atlanta” meetup group● "Civic Hacking Weekly" e-newsletter by Luigi Montanez

atlrug giveback announcements - nov 2014

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