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March 2008 SF Ruby Meetup
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Citizen Space425 2nd St#300San Francisco, CA 94108
- Who attended?
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It's estimated that 59 people attended.
- Who organized?
Arne Gerhard of CitizenSpace has graciously volunteered to be our host for this event. When we go to 21st Amendment afterwards, be sure to buy him a drink.
Ryan Garver of ELC Technology will be presenting the next big thing on the web. If you thought Facebook API was cool, imagine the Facebook API for all social sites, now you've got OpenSocial. This effort is being championed by Google and others. More and more sites are signing up and ELC has developed a Rails plugin that will let you use this new standard with ease. ELC developed its OpenSocial Container using a combination of Ruby on Rails, and Javascript, allowing developers to quickly and simply deploy new OpenSocial applications. ELC's Container provides a secure host for Ruby on Rails developers to use the OpenSocial API calls in a controlled fashion. The Container also provides an open, well-documented, and portable platform to create new OpenSocial APIs that can be used for multiple social media sites. [1 hr long w/ Q&A]
Michael Slater and Christopher Haupt will describe how they built the BuildingWebApps.com site, an information portal for Ruby on Rails developers. The site includes a custom content management system for articles, a links database that is categorized by both topic and the type of link, and RSS feed processing. All built, of course, with Rails.
Dominic Son of LettucePrint fame inspires this open forum discussion: So You've Got Your App, What Are The Issue? Are you not getting the traction you hoped for? Are you users not following through on their transactions? Dominic will be around to fan the flames.
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“ Talks were good. Room and setup were inadequate for the size of the group. Needed a much bigger screen and more chairs. ” -
“ The OpenSocial discussion was meaty and interesting. While the presentation itself was kind of slipshot, Ryan knew what he was talking about and had equally meaty answers. The BuildingWebApps present felt a lot like a sales pitch at times. Seems like this is a good resource for Ruby dev...that's cool. ” -
“ This was my first meeting and I was blown away at the knowledge base of the members. I am looking forward to coming to more meeting and learning more about Ruby on Rails. Thanks Bosco for organizing these meets. Sandy ” -
“ No Pizza? :( ” -
“ I thought the first presentation, about OpenSocial, needed a bit of work. The speaker is clearly very familiar with the topic but, for those of us less familiar with OpenSocial, really needs to start with a higher level overview, including a clear statement of (a) what OpenSocial is (a couple good illustrations might help), and (b) why would we care (i.e., why is this cool, how do we benefit, etc.). Some examples of what we could do with it would be a good second step. (I'm not saying start with a bunch of marketing slideware; nobody wants that. I just thought a clear overview would have helped a lot, and could be done in 3 slides / 3 minutes.) The second speaker was very good, and I left quite interested in both his site, and the product being developed. I hope to hear more about it as it gets closer to being available. The discussion started slow, but got very interesting by the end. ” -
“ Great mix of discussion and presentation. When a presenter doesn't make it all the way through his slides because he's answering questions, I take that as a good sign. ” -
“ I really like the discussion section at the end of the meeting. ” -
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