A few of us (myself, Mike Bailey, Ryan Allen, and Nick Marfleet) got
together at SCT on Monday night, to plan another Ruby Nuby Night. We
bounced around some ideas, and started making a list of topics worth
including.

As we were doing it, we realised something: we're not nearly as
excited as we were 18 months ago (when the last Nuby Night was held)
about what's happening in the Ruby space, or about working with Ruby.
We feel like things have flattened out, there's less interesting
innovation going on, and there are even a few potential shark-jumps
happening.

That said, there's still a lot of cool stuff out there, and we all
think the roro community is full of amazing people. Given it's the
start of a new year, now seems a good time to take stock, and harness
the brains of those amazing people to work out how we can keep
everyone involved and excited this year.

So, for the next Melbourne meeting, we're only going to have one
speaker, and I want to spend the rest of the time having a meta-
discussion about the state of the Ruby world, and about the Melbourne
roro group.

I'm setting you all some homework in preparation for the meeting.
Please come along having thought about the following things:

1. What do you think are the best things (products, tools, ideas, or
anything else) to come out of the Ruby world in the past couple of
years?

2. What are the most exciting and inspiring things you've come across
in the past couple of years? This can be Ruby or non-Ruby, techie or
non-techie...anything that's got you excited and motivated.

3. What are the up-and-coming things you're excited about this year?

If you have any general thoughts about how we can improve the group,
please bring those along too.

(And feel free to discuss all this on the list in the meantime.)

- Pete