LA Ruby / Ruby on Rails Monthly Meetup

This month's meetup will be held at Coloft.

Food will be sponsored by The Hybrid Group.

Schedule

7:00 – 7:15 Open
7:15 – 7:30 Introductions
7:30 – 9:00 Presentations
9:00 – 10:00 Open / Networking

Presentations

What can you learn in a Summer? by Jen Diamond

You can learn a lot in a Summer. Jen Diamond, one of the members of Team Bundler, will give her account of her experience in Rails Girls Summer of Code, a program created to help encourage diversity in programming.

Jen Diamond organizes the Eastside Ruby Study Group for people, especially women, interested in learning Ruby and RoR. This summer she was paid to work on the Bundler gem through the Rails Girls Summer of Code program. She is continuing to learn Ruby & Rails and is currently looking for an apprenticeship.

Test Driving Designs by David Friermor

Learn about the benefits of using a live style guide and how to integrate it into an agile process. David Friermor is a highly technical product designer at Pivotal Labs.

pETL - Pretty good ETL framework by Alexander Tamoykin

Data Warehouse in Ruby, why not? I'll demonstrate how we Open Sourced our homegrown ETL engine. I'll show the challenges that we had and how we solved it here at ZestFinance.

Alexander Tamoykin: Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Contributor, Table Tennis Team Captain http://alextamoykin.com (http://alextamoykin.com/)

Parking Coloft does not have their own parking, but you should be able to find street parking nearby.