Atlanta Ruby Users Group GiveBack Announcements slides for November 2014

1. ATLRUG Giveback
Announcements – Nov. 2014
● Previous Events/Projects
– October 2014 Hack Day: 9 of 19 registered people
attended.
● 2 experience worked on 1 Railsgoat issue
● 3 experienced worked with 4 newbies
– Local Rails Hackathon project: Peace Corps' Medlink
project featured in:
● http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/10/31/keeping-peace-corps-volunteers-● https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/10/peace-corps-medlink-twilio-sms-– Any Georgia-based Rails Rumble teams?

2. ATLRUG Giveback
Announcements – Nov. 2014
● Active Project
– ATLRUG: Surplus Mac Minis – Actively awarding the mac
minis (10 awarded, 8 distributed; 7 machines dev env set up
(1 refused))
● UPDATE: 11/12/2014: Distributed the final 2 machines.
– ATLRUG web site: maintained and stable
By Al Snow – al@RailsUpToDate.com - Keeping web sites upgraded and up-to-date.

3. ATLRUG Giveback
Announcements – Nov. 2014
● Upcoming Community Events
– Nov.14-15: Govathon: https://nvite.com/govathon/ab9
– Nov.15: RailsLearning's "Learning Ruby" (non-free) online class starts:
http://rubylearning.com/blog/2014/10/26/learn-ruby-programming-57th-batch
– Nov.15: Global Day of Coding - http://globalday.coderetreat.org
● Atlanta: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-day-of-code-retreat-2014-atlanta-ga-tickets-13727670833
● Athens: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/athens-code-retreat-2014-global-day-of-code-retreat-tickets-13708635899
– Nov.19: James' Intermediate Ruby Meeting - http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/218627008
– Nov.20: Nerd Club - http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/209059442
– Nov.22: Emerald City (our bi-monthly Rails Study Group)
● Using Rails Tutorial (draft/Rails 4.2) book. Finished Chapter 2 last class.
● Next time is Nov.22 at 10am at Georgia Gwinnett College. - http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/211094802
– Nov.25: Code for Atlanta/Hack Night - http://www.meetup.com/codeforatlanta/events/206687762
– Dec.1-24: “24 Pull Request” program - http://www.24pullrequests.com

4. ATLRUG Giveback
Announcements – Nov. 2014
● Other Groups
– “Rails Girls” meetup group
– "Women Who Code Atlanta" meetup group
– "Alpaharetta Railers Coders" meetup group
– "CoderDojo (PonceSprings)" meetup group
– “Code for Atlanta” meetup group
● "Civic Hacking Weekly" e-newsletter by Luigi Montanez