Welcome
Welcome to Rails Manitoba…or I suppose in a more extended format: Ruby on Rails Manitoba User Group and Training Organization. :-) Basically, we’re a collection of people interested in the Ruby on Rails web application framework that live/work in and around Manitoba, Canada.
If you’re not using Rails currently, no problem. Rails Manitoba would love to work with and learn from other developers using similar frameworks. Are you a Django developer and want to showcase Python’s best of breed web framework? Are you a PHP/Cake zen master? How about Java and one of its dozens of frameworks? Come on out, network, show your stuff and let’s help Manitoba grow to be a hub of web application development excellence.
The plan currently is to meet every month at the Red River College downtown campus to network, share code, give presentations on any topic of interest to members. There’s no fee to join.
You might want to join the Rails Manitoba Google Groups mailing list we’ve created to jump in and meet some people right away, ask questions or just listen to some light banter. It’s low volume and very non-threatening.
Also, if you’d like to contribute to the blog, offer your services or in any other way help build the web presence and resources here, please email: brock@railsmanitoba.com
Welcome.
Brock Gunter-Smith
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I've been in touch with D'Arcy Lussier from the Winnipeg .NET users group and he's going to do some promotion for RailsManitoba on the .NET users group website and at their next meeting. There might also be the possibility to do some joint events, if there's a topic of interest to both groups (i.e., design, web security, entrepreneurial topics). Students at RRC are also keen to join and become active. They have been encouraged to visit this site and join the mailing list to keep up-to-date with upcoming events. As for the space, I'm still working on that one. The request needs to come from the department chair, but he's away until next week.