Rails Manitoba

Meeting Location: The King’s Head Pub

Meeting Time: noon – 1pm

Attendees:

• Brock Gunter-Smith
• Peer Allan
• Steven Soroka
• Keith Tremblay
• Mike Arsenault
• Jody Baty
• Ranjith Udayshankar
• Mike (from RRC who came with Jody…)

The inaugural meeting was fantastic. Introductions were made all around. Great food was consumed. The Big Bang occurred and Rails Manitoba was officially launched! At the end of the meeting a few decisions/action-items were made:

Brock Gunter-Smith

• Talk to New Media Manitoba board of directors about assistance with funding montly meetings of Rails Manitoba
• Investigate on-going funding model to support bringing up trainers, hosting events and making future meetings more hospitable
• Create a mailing list through Google Groups to connect all local developers together
• Setup forum software for deeper discussion threads

Jody Baty

• Look into the availability of a classroom in November at the Red River downtown campus for meeting 002 of Rails Manitoba

All

• Brainstorm ideas for the first meeting topic and what content to put on the Rails Manitoba website

First Meeting:

The first meeting, to be held sometime in November, will likely have something of the following format:

• Introduction of each attendee
• Mini presentations
• Free-for-all discussions