The document outlines upcoming events for the Atlanta Ruby User Group (ATLRUG) in November and December 2016, including civic hack nights and a nerd club meeting. It also announces various programming opportunities and hackathons, and provides updates on Ruby releases and RailsConf 2017. Additional suggestions for ATLRUG talks and community initiatives in software security are included.

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