Atlanta Ruby Users Group Community Announcements for September 2015

1. ATLRUG September 2015 –
Need ATLRUG website developer
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Looking for new Lead ATLRUG website developer to do new work on
www.atlrug.com (our web site). Please volunteer by end of this month.
– Need a ping service that only pings 16 hours per day – new Heroku rule. Turned off
Montastic.com for www.atlrug.com.
– Anyone using ATLRUG IRC anymore? Thinking of replacing IRC with Slack's Tech404/rails
channel to our website's footer.
– Anyone using ATLRUG Linkedin group? I am the group moderator. Thinking of deleting it.
– I will be summarizing the commented out www.atlrug.com functionality and transferring or
deleting it in the next few months.
By Al Snow – al@RailsUpToDate.com

2. ATLRUG Community Events -
September 2015
● Sep.11-12: AT&T Mobile App Hackathon Atlanta – IOT and Women in Tech:
http://atdc.org/blog/att-mobile-app-hackathon-atlanta-iot-and-women-in-tech
● Sep.16: AIR (Atlanta Intermediate Ruby) meeting: See ATLRUG Meetup site
● Sep.17: Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup site
● Sep.21 (7pm): Civic Hack Night at ATV: See Code-for-America/Atlanta
Meetup site
● Sep.25: TransportationCamp South – Clough Commons at GA Tech - $11.54:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/transportationcamp-south-2015-registration-17703387
By Al Snow

3. ATLRUG Community Events -
September 2015 (continued)
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Sep.26: Black Girls CODE Event:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-girls-code-atlanta-chapter-presents-build-a-game-in-a-day-with-
Volunteers:
http://blackgirlscode.ivolunteer.com/bgcatlanta_150926?mc_cid=23f766b33d&mc_eid=991b75541c
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Oct.02-04: 48-in-48 Hackathon for Atlanta Non-Profits (at General Assembly):
www.48in48.org
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Nov.07-08: 2015 Rails Rumble (Register: 10/26-11/4):
http://blog.railsrumble.com/2015/08/11/announcing-rails-rumble-2015
https://infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/articles/tips-for-participating-in-the-rails-rumble
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Nov.14: GDCR (CodeRetreat Day) Atlanta, GA US – Big Nerd Ranch -
http://coderetreat.org/events/gdcr-atlanta-ga-us
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Our Emerald City Rails Study Group has not started this month as it usually done.
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Looking for ways to help: "RubyIssues": https://rubyissues.ongoodbits.com
By Al Snow

4. My Accomplishments
● My OWASP/Railsgoat Upgrade finally merged after a year of
work on it.
– Also thank Fred Nixon (@jfnixon) for his Strong Parameter pull
request during this upgrade.
By Al Snow

5. ATLRUG Previous
Announcements
● RailsConf 2015 Videos: http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2015
– Kylie's talk second most popular at 1357 as of May 11, 2015.
– http://rubylogs.com/railsconf-2015-talks-that-you-should-watch
● RailsConf 2016: Kansas City, MO (May 4-6, 2016) (~12 hour drive from ATL)
●
Rails Girls SOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/5/2/welcome-to-gsoc-15
– 9 ROR/Ruby Google SOC Projects - Search Term: [Rr]uby | [Rr]ails at:
●
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015
– 16 2015 Rails Girl team pairs selected: http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2015-06-04-2015-teams
●
Google Hispanic Coding Initiative:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/21/google-code-as-a-second-language
●
Find a Project or Non-Project to help out with: http://hashtagcharity.org/discover
● Remember to upgrade to Ruby 2.1.6 and 2.2.2.
●
Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org, etc: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Evolving your web site's technology together.

6. ATLRUG Previous
Announcements
● RailsConf 2015 Videos: http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2015
– Kylie's talk second most popular at 1357 as of May 11, 2015.
– http://rubylogs.com/railsconf-2015-talks-that-you-should-watch
● RailsConf 2016: Kansas City, MO (May 4-6, 2016) (~12 hour drive from ATL)
●
Rails Girls SOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/5/2/welcome-to-gsoc-15
– 9 ROR/Ruby Google SOC Projects - Search Term: [Rr]uby | [Rr]ails at:
●
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015
– 16 2015 Rails Girl team pairs selected: http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2015-06-04-2015-teams
●
Google Hispanic Coding Initiative:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/21/google-code-as-a-second-language
●
Find a Project or Non-Project to help out with: http://hashtagcharity.org/discover
● Remember to upgrade to Ruby 2.1.6 and 2.2.2.
●
Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org, etc: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Evolving your web site's technology together.