Atlanta Ruby Users Group Community and Giveback Announcements - Also Civic Hack events - Summer of Code - Bundler issues

1. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
ATLRUG Community Events -
November 2016
● Nov.14@6:30pm: Civic Hack Night: Garage at Tech Square: See
Code For Atlanta Meetup Site for details.
● Nov.17@7pm: Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup Site for details.
● Nov.28@7pm: Ruby Hack: See ATLRUG Meetup site for details.
Note that AIR/Pair Programming is merged with Ruby Hack.
● Nov.29@7pm: Civic Hack Night: ATV: See Code For Atlanta
Meetup Site for details.
● Dec.12@6:30pm: Civic Hack Night: Garage at Tech Square: See
Code For Atlanta Meetup Site for details.

2. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
General Hackathons
● TAG' s H.I.T Hack Challenge Hackathon (now
to Nov. 18)
– http://links.tagonline.mkt5943.com/servlet/MailView?ms
● GitHub's game jam, Game Off – Month of Nov
– https://github.com/blog/2262-github-s-game-jam-game-o

3. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
General Code Programs
Google Code 2016 and Google Summer of
Code 2017
– https://blog.google/topics/education/announcing-google-
– Orgs:
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/announcing
● Rails Girls Summer of Code - Local Team/Final
Status Blog
– http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2016-11-01-team

4. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
Upstream Rails
Announcements – November 2016
● Ruby 2.4.0-preview3 released today
(11/9/2016)
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/11/09/ruby-2-4
● Bundler issues
– http://www.rubyflow.com/p/29z2b7-how-bundler-is-broke
● Ruby Version Stats
– https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2016/10/04/ruby-versions

5. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
(Old News)
New tab on ATLRUG.com
● New “Community” tab for a “Community and
Giving Back” page on ATLRUG.com.
– Meetings
– Software (Rails, Ruby)
– Gem Monitoring
– Programs
– Training

6. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
Fun Fact
● Add “echo |” in front of awk command to see
output of awk calculations in stdout.
– Example “echo | awk '{ print 3 + 4 }' returns 7

7. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
That's It
● Thanks so much

8. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
MC Meeting Checklist
●
Introduce Frank and myself.
● Thank sponsors - Pardot, Mailchimp, Frank,
– Venues (Thoughtworks, Tech Square Labs)
●
Announcements/Special Events?
● Companies looking for people?
● People looking for companies?
●
Al's Announcements
● Introduce each speaker.
● 30 minute talks
●
AFTER
– Mention going to bar afterward.
– Clean up Venue/Food afterwards.

9. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
RailsConf-Related News
● RailsConf 2017 will be in Phoenix, AZ from
April 25-27, 2017!
● RailsConf 2016 Videos:
http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2016
● Ruby Together: Please sponsor common
Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org at:
https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announc

10. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
(Proposed) New Meetup Group:
SSEA
● Software Security Engineering Atlanta
– Initially Rails focus.
– Keywords: Web/Rails/Ruby/Javascript stack,
Security, hands-on, tools (railsgoat, brakeman,
dawnscanner), pen testing, assembly, C, C++, gdb

11. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
ATLRUG Talk Suggestions
● Blade Demo - Testing JavaScript Libraries
● Adding secure_header gem to your project.
● Add hamburger icon to ATLRUG web site.
● Add Bootstrap 4 to ATLRUG web site.
● Using Rails with Window's Bash.
● Rails at a Hackathon – Pros and Cons
● Status on Rails dropping JQuery

12. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
ATLRUG Previous
Announcements (1)
● Other Ruby-based conferences: http://planetruby.github.io/calendar
● Our Emerald City Rails Study Group is not active for 2015-2016 season..
● 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 2015 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

13. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
ATLRUG Previous
Announcements (2)
● Results of Rails-related 2015 GSOC:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/9/25/gsoc-2015-wrapping-up/
● Interesting Blog:
http://readwrite.com/2015/12/11/tech-refugees-aid-organizations
● Google Hispanic Coding Initiative:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/21/google-code-as-a-second-langua
● Bash coming to Windows 10 this summer. Microsoft release it
in Fast Ring today (4/6/2016).
● 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