# January Phoenix Ruby Users Group meeting

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 8, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/january-phoenix-ruby-users-group-meeting/81344 "2007-01-08T04:02:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/january-phoenix-ruby-users-group-meeting/81344/1 "2007-01-08T04:02:40Z")

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What: The January Phoenix Ruby U. Group meeting  
When: Monday, January 8, at 6:15pm,  
Where: Axway (formerly known as Cyclone Commerce)

Please see

[http://www.rubyaz.org/groups/prug/](http://www.rubyaz.org/groups/prug/)

for a map and directions

Topic: Ruby and Amazon Web Services examples, plus whatever other stuff

Next month we’re having Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services come give a  
special presentation on Amazon’s Simple Storage, Elastic Cloud  
Computing, and other neatness from AWS. In preparation, I (James)  
will demo some Ruby tools for AWS.

If anyone else has any topics or code that they would like to present,  
please let me know, or just come prepared and show it.

Important note: The plans for the February meeting have been revised.  
We’re still having a speaker from Amazon Web Services, but we’ll be  
meeting on our usual day: second Monday of the month; February 12.

–  
James B.

“You harmonize; then you customize.”

- Wilson Pickett

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**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/january-phoenix-ruby-users-group-meeting/81344/2 "2007-01-08T04:43:44Z")

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James B. wrote:

> Topic: Ruby and Amazon Web Services examples, plus whatever other stuff
> 
> Important note: The plans for the February meeting have been revised.  
> We’re still having a speaker from Amazon Web Services, but we’ll be  
> meeting on our usual day: second Monday of the month; February 12.  
> For the benefit of non-Phoenix Rubyists interested in AWS, will this be  
> available on the Web?

–  
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)  
[http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/)

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given  
rabbits fire.

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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/january-phoenix-ruby-users-group-meeting/81344/3 "2007-01-08T07:51:53Z")

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> James B. wrote:

> > Important note: The plans for the February meeting have been revised.  
> > We’re still having a speaker from Amazon Web Services, but we’ll be  
> > meeting on our usual day: second Monday of the month; February 12.  
> > For the benefit of non-Phoenix Rubyists interested in AWS, will this be  
> > available on the Web?

Doubtful. I know of no plans to record this in any way.

But: Folks from Amazon Web Services are available to come to your own  
local meeting. (That’s what they do. Seems like a pretty cool job!)

You can see their schedule here:

> **[Evangelists on the Road, Early 2007 | Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/evangelists_on_/)**
>
> My team and I have been working to put together our plans for the first quarter of 2007. Here’s what we have so far: January 15th-16th – Mashup University, Boston, MA. 16th – Access Developers Group, Redmond, WA. 17th-18th – Mashup Camp, Boston, MA....

(Though, on inspection, I see that it is out of date with regard to the  
Phoenix meeting. But close enough.)

That post has an E-mail address where you can inquire into having  
someone come to your group.

–  
James B.

“In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly  
universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded  
by  
uncertainty cannot be the truth.”

- R. Feynman