Archive → July, 2007
Maxed Out
Well, I didn’t imagine this would happen but we’ve hit our maximum room capacity (35) for our first MoR meeting. All this interest is a great sign for the Montreal community!
This means that if you’ve put your name on the Upcoming.org “Attending” list you have nothing to worry about. Conversely, if you’ve not RSVP’ed by now, then you’re probably out of luck — unless registered attendees bail, so you may want to keep an eye on the event.
Thanks again to all of you that have signed up! Until the 7th, stay fit and have fun.
Only a few places left
Holy cow! We never thought MoR would take off so quickly! We have a hard cap of 35 people and 29 are attending so far. If you want to join us on August 7, please hurry and RSVP.
If you already RSVP’d but cannot attend, please give your place to somebody else: remove your name from the RSVP list.
See you on the 7th!
Come Early! (and other administrative stuff)
We’re really encouraged to see all the interest that Montreal on Rails has created!
As we get close to finalizing the planning for the first event, we’re enjoying getting to know McGill’s administration machine. We’d like to stress that people come early as the doors to the building will lock tight at 7:00PM (and this is not just a scare tactic – this will be enforced by McGill). Let me reiterate: you will not be able to enter the building after 7PM.
To this end, we’re moving up the event start time to 6:30 PM, and we’ll use the first 1/2 hour as an informal chit-chat/donut-eating period in which we can hang out together before the first presentation begins at 7 o’clock sharp. Sound good?
Also, if you plan to come please ensure that you use our Upcoming.org RSVP page to signal your presence. We have a hard cap on the room capacity, so this is important.
Finally, while the presenters will have access to a McGill guest WiFi account for demo purposes, there will not be public Internet access in the room. If you’re brave, you can live blog it from your cellphone though 
I think that’s everything. Enjoy the next couple weeks, and see you on the 7th!
First Meeting: Preview
So the first ever Montreal on Rails meetup is scheduled to take place on August 7th, over at a classroom on McGill campus. We’re revving our engines in anticipation, and hope you are too.
Many of you are probably wondering what the heck we’ll discuss at these crazy events. Well, wonder no more, because we’ll be providing a short preview ahead of each meeting.
August’s inaugural MoR meeting gets things off the ground right with two cool talks from a couple of local Ruby on Rails veterans:
- Marc-André Cournoyer (of StandoutJobs fame) will be showing us how to make testing with external services “super fast and fun”.
- Carl Mercier (from here at Karabunga HQ) will be talking about HAML.
As always, please do come armed with your very own Rails questions, because we’ll be aiming to have an open-forum Q&A session once the talks wrap up.
Looking forward to seeing y’all soon; we can barely contain our excitement. Literally.
We're alive!
Ruby on Rails is one of the fastest-growing language/frameworks of all time, and is extremely well-suited to rapid, or agile, development practices. Why then, we asked ourselves, is there not a bigger community of RoR developers in Montreal? Where are they all? We decided to create Montreal on Rails to find out.
Montreal on Rails is our invitation to the Montreal Ruby on Rails community to come out and play together. And by that we mean, code & learn together. With MoR, we want to bring some level of cohesion to the local Rails community and provide a fun monthly gathering point where developers can come to exchange with one another. There will be laughs, there will be tears (hey we can be sensitive – don’t judge) and there will be donuts.
So if you live in (or around Montreal) and are developing in Ruby on Rails (or want to learn) and speak either (or both) of our official languages, then you are formally invited to come out to our events. The first will be on the 7th of August. All the details can be found here.
Hope to see you then!
The Karabunga Team