# Los Angeles area users group? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087 "2007-02-09T23:00:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giles_B)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087/1 "2007-02-09T23:00:55Z")
Just moved to LA; wondering if there’s a users group in the area, besides the San Diego group. (Their screencasts are excellent but they’re miles away.) Also, if the answer’s no, but there are Rubyists interested in forming one, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giles_B)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087/2 "2007-02-09T23:16:56Z")
[http://www.laruby.net/](http://www.laruby.net/) ---
**Author:** ![Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giles_B)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087/3 "2007-02-09T23:46:59Z")
Looks like it hasn’t been updated since November? ---
**Author:** ![Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giles_B)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087/4 "2007-02-10T05:51:38Z")
Giles B. wrote: > Just moved to LA; wondering if there’s a users group in the area, > besides the San Diego group. (Their screencasts are excellent but > they’re miles away.) > > Also, if the answer’s no, but there are Rubyists interested in > forming > one, let me know. On 2/9/07, Jon G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [http://www.laruby.net/](http://www.laruby.net/) Giles B. wrote: > Looks like it hasn’t been updated since November? Now it doesn’t look like the site is even up… there wasn’t really any activity on the mailing list, either. However: yes, I’m in LA and would be interested in a user group here. -Justin ---
**Author:** ![Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giles_B)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087/5 "2007-03-29T22:38:02Z")
> Also, if the answer’s no, but there are Rubyists interested in forming > one, let me know. Me three. I’m a Perl monger but would like to branch out. Now, are there any experienced Ruby developers willing to give a tutorial? ---
**Author:** ![Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giles_B)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087/6 "2007-03-08T08:28:10Z")
Hey I posted this a while ago; turns out there is a Ruby group meetup thing, it seems very informal, link is here: [http://ruby.meetup.com/84/](http://ruby.meetup.com/84/) Sorry, meant to post this sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@Giles\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Giles_B)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/los-angeles-area-users-group/85087/7 "2007-03-29T22:55:04Z")
> > Also, if the answer’s no, but there are Rubyists interested in forming > > one, let me know. > > Me three. I’m a Perl monger but would like to branch out. > > Now, are there any experienced Ruby developers willing to give a > tutorial? Yes! Actually, not only am I tutoring a Rails newbie from Long Beach, and totally interested in taking on new students (plug plug), but the development of a new Ruby group got put on hold when I discovered a Ruby group in Santa Monica already existed. However, the main thing that came out of meeting with that group was the development of new plans to hold something bigger, with presentations, and the first one hopefully will be on best practices in both Ruby and Rails. We definitely found that newbies wanting to learn were a priority. (We being myself and a client interested in sponsoring.) One of the things we’re wrestling with and have undefined is location. We probably have support on the meeting space side from [Koders.com](http://Koders.com) in Santa Monica, Bitscribe in Burbank, and Fonogenic in Van Nuys. That covers the Valley and the Westside, and hopefully we’ll do some kind of rotation, or schedule some kind of time where people can make it from across town, and/or find a location more central or further south.