Hacktoberfest is held throughout October and encourages contributions to open source projects. Suggested projects to contribute to include cleaning up the middleman gem, fixing warnings in a Travis output, and refactoring Railsgoat. Upcoming local events include a health IT hack challenge, Nerd Club meetup, and civic hack night. The document also lists upcoming conferences and initiatives like Rails Rumble and Google Summer of Code.

1. Hacktoberfest All Month
● All October: Hacktoberfest:
https://github.com/blog/2067-hacktoberfest-contribute-to-open-source-in-october
– Looking for Ruby ways to help: "RubyIssues": https://rubyissues.ongoodbits.com
– Find a Project or Non-Project to help out with: http://hashtagcharity.org/discover
– Suggest or add a license to a repo.
– Remember to upgrade to Ruby 2.1.7 and 2.2.3.
– Specific Ideas
● Help clean up "middleman" gem.
● Fix 24pullrequest's 2 warnings in Travis output.
● Fix ptools gem's “sparse?” failed test.
● Refactor Railsgoat to fix its "cane" ABC metric.
●
Add something to our www.atlrug.com web site.
– If you need details, just email me.
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2. ATLRUG Community Events -
October 2015
● Sep.28-Oct.23-Nov.3: Health IT (HIT) Hack Challenge:
https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?P=1521974191142
● Oct.22: Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup site
● Oct.27 (7pm): Civic Hack Night at Atanta Tech Village:
See Code-for-America/Atlanta Meetup site
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Let's evolve your web site's technology
together.

3. ATLRUG Community Events -
October 2015 (continued)
● 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-rum
● Nov. 6-7: Global Payments FinApps Hackathon:
http://links.tagonline.mkt5943.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTIzMDI4MzE
● Nov.14: GDCR (CodeRetreat Day) Atlanta, GA US – Big Nerd
Ranch - http://coderetreat.org/events/gdcr-atlanta-ga-us
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Let's evolve your web site's technology together.

4. ATLRUG Community Events -
October 2015 (continued)
● Results of Rails-related 2015 GSOC:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/9/25/gsoc-2015-wrappi
● Dec. 15, 2015: Google Code-in - Program starts for
students
● March 14, 2016: Google Summer of Code - Student
applications open
– http://danielpocock.com/getting-selected-for-google-summer-of
● For More Details:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/10/dozen-of-

5. Interesting Links – October 2015
● Open Source 4 Women: https://www.os4w.org
● How To Write Unmaintainable Code:
https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/unmain.html
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Let's evolve your web site's
technology together.

6. ATLRUG Previous
Announcements
● Our Emerald City Rails Study Group has not started this month as it usually done.
●
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
●
Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org at: https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Let's evolve your web site's technology together.

7. PREVIOUS: ATLRUG Sept. 2015 –
Need ATLRUG website developer
●
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. (10/11/2015 UPDATE: ATLRUG now is sponsoring paid tier 1)
– Anyone using ATLRUG IRC anymore? Thinking of replacing IRC with Slack's Tech404/rails channel to
our website's footer. (10/11/2015 UPDATE: Replaced IRC with Slack on web site)
– Anyone using ATLRUG Linkedin group? I am the group moderator. Thinking of deleting it. (10/11/2015
UPDATE: No change)
– I will be summarizing the commented out www.atlrug.com functionality (10/11/2015 UPDATE: Done).
– I will be transferring or deleting www.atlrug.com in the next few months. (10/11/2015 UPDATE: No
change)
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Let's evolve your web site's technology together.