# Melbourne ruby meetup: 29th August

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/melbourne-ruby-meetup-29th-august/65882>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 22, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/melbourne-ruby-meetup-29th-august/65882 "2006-08-22T02:30:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Pattison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Matt\_Pattison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Matt_Pattison)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/melbourne-ruby-meetup-29th-august/65882/1 "2006-08-22T02:30:51Z")

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Hi Melbourne (Australia) Rubyists,

Here are the details of this month’s meetup, the venue is kindly  
provided by Thoughtworks.

Date: Tuesday 29th August  
Time: 6pm

Location:

Thoughtworks  
Level 11, 155 Queen Street  
Melbourne  
(map and more details at:  
[http://www.thoughtworks.com/melbourneInfo.html](http://www.thoughtworks.com/melbourneInfo.html))

Agenda:

Doors open 6pm.  
Thoughtworks is providing some food (pizza or something).

6.30  
Down to business…

Introductions:  
Everyone gets a chance to introduce themselves and plug their  
favourite ruby company/project/whatever.

Analog Blog:  
Come prepared to bring your latest news headlines for the ruby/rails  
world. We use our high tech news aggregator (a whiteboard and pen) to  
produce a feed of all the exciting things that have been happening in  
the ruby and rails world in the last month. Our high tech delivery  
method (someone writing everything down) will wing this info back to  
this list for later digestion (and ideas for next months talks).

Short Talk 1:  
Craig A… Rails engines: “Why they don’t suck as much as DHH  
might think”. How to use them to remove duplication between  
applications and to integrate third party software for greater  
useability.

Short Talk 2:  
This slot is open. Please volunteer. No experience necessary.

Wrap Up  
Anyone not falling asleep or bored to tears at this point may wish to  
join me for a couple of beers.

That’s it. Hope to see you all there, and a big thank you to  
Thoughtworks for providing the venue.

regards,

Craig  
[www.craigambrose.com](http://www.craigambrose.com)

Matt Pattison

PS - if you aren’t already subscribed, check out the melbourne-ruby  
mailing list: [http://groups.google.com/group/melbourne-ruby](http://groups.google.com/group/melbourne-ruby)

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Pattison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Matt\_Pattison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Matt_Pattison)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/melbourne-ruby-meetup-29th-august/65882/2 "2006-08-22T05:51:06Z")

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Anyone know of a similarly inclined group closer to Brisbane?

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Pattison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Matt\_Pattison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Matt_Pattison)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/melbourne-ruby-meetup-29th-august/65882/3 "2006-08-23T05:08:30Z")

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On 8/22/06, Mozman [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Anyone know of a similarly inclined group closer to Brisbane?

check out the Brisbane Ruby Brigade: [http://ruby.meetup.com/74/](http://ruby.meetup.com/74/)

they’re having a meetup tonight: [http://ruby.meetup.com/74/events/](http://ruby.meetup.com/74/events/)