North West Ruby User Group
The old northerners on rails page seems to be slightly out of date but there is a new North West ruby/rails group started up that can be found at http://nwrug.org
Meet
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April 22 2pm, Leeds, Novotel * * * * *
What we plan to do
Have a chat, talk about rails and ruby etc. Come along if you are a rails expert or are just interested but haven’t started using it yet.
If you have something you have built using rails, bring it with you and show it to us.
I’m bringing my latest project on CD, someone bring a laptop please — pete
Other Stuff
People
TobinHarris – tobinharris.com, Leeds, UK (IRC: tobeywobey)
I’m a freelancer, so any time is good for me too.
Jim Neath – Manchester based Rails Developer.
Steve Sawyer – www.minster-it.com, York, UK
IT Freelancer/Consultant.
Alastair – http://kozmo.railsplayground.com, Harrogate, UK (IRC: Welly)
I’d like to attend this meet! I freelance so anytime is good! alastair(at)kozmo(dot)co(dot)uk
Fluffle (IRC name) – Manchester, UK
Siftah (IRC name) – Manchester, UK
Scott Lowe – Manchester, UK scott(at)netneedsgiant(putyourdothere)com
Stuart Rocks – Manchester (sturocks(at)gmail(dot)com)
Martin Smith
Live in Manchester work in Preston
linus141275 at hotmail dot com
John Knott (Cubic Studios) – Doncaster
Interested but will wait till the next one. Freelancer so any time is good.
Piers Cawley – (Just A Summary) – Just typical isn’t it, I only find out about this on the day; somehow I don’t think I’ll be making it down from Gateshead.
Peter Cooper – http://www.petercooper.co.uk – Lincolnshire coast (IRC: coops)
I’d be interested if this gets off the ground again :)
Rahoul Baruah (Baz) – http://made-of-stone.blogspot.com – Leeds .
Deb Bassett – (urbanwide), Leeds, UK
(deb(at)urbanwide(dot)com)
Cas – Just found some spare time. Good to go anytime after March 16th as I am back in country. Looking forward to it.
Jack Hughes – (OPENXTRA), Otley/York/UK.
Ben Aldred – Ruby/Rails developer in Manchester, UK
I’ll jump on this thread and mention geekup – It’s a Manchester based monthly meetup with lots of Rails developers, designers, PHP and other exciting people. We recently hosted a one day intro to Rails day with about 45 attendees that went down a storm. Go check out the mailing list – it’s pretty active and should give you a good idea of what we are about …