This is great news, Mikel! One thing to consider as they're no longer under the reInteractive brand is whether Ruby Australia should take them under its umbrella to provide official cover in terms of insurance, handling of sponsorship etc.
Something to discuss with the current committee? On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Pat Allan <p...@freelancing-gods.com> wrote: > Hi Mikel > > Thanks for all the hard work reInteractive's been putting into these > events, and I particularly appreciate this next step of giving them a more > community-driven approach and name (not that you weren't community-focused > in the past!). > > And I'm sure you're aware (though most on this list won't be): we're > looking forward to bringing the InstallFest event down to Melbourne in the > next few months as well - a date's been figured out at the moment. > > Cheers > > -- > Pat > > On 05/08/2013, at 4:22 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > > > Hi there ruby friends :) > > > > So, some of you might have heard of two community initiatives we have > started over the past few months. > > > > The InstallFest and the Development Hub. > > > > Both of these were kicked off by reInteractive's community manager Chloe. > > > > When we started, we branded these, by putting "reinteractive" in front > of them. We did this for a couple of reasons, (1) by putting our company > name on the line and backing this event, it got a lot more attention than > it might of otherwise and (2) it's always good to have a bit of marketing :) > > > > However, both of these events are growing in popularity and attendance. > installFest has now almost passed 100 people setup with Ruby on Rails and > Development Hub last week had about 40 people rock up including mentors.... > > > > As our intention the whole time has been to make these community events > and have anyone attend and help, we've decided to remove any reInteractive > branding from the name of these initiatives. > > > > Of course we will still sponsor these events and Chloé will still work > hard at making them happen and will be the point person on driving them to > continue to expand and grow, but we hope this change will make it more > acceptable for anyone from any company (development shop, freelancer or > otherwise) to come along, participate, attend or help out. > > > > Also, it means we can start expanding this thing, news will be out soon > about us starting the InstallFest in other capital cities in Australia and > move out from there. > > > > To reflect this change we've gone and updated our website and every site > we have control over to refer to these events as the "Ruby on Rails > Installfest" and "Ruby on Rails Development Hub" instead of "reInteractive > Installfest" and "reInteractive Development Hub". If you find an old > reference to reInteractive directly in the branding, please let us know and > we'll get it fixed ASAP :) > > > > Also, this means these events will always stay free and run at a cost > plus basis to the sponsors. I'm also happy to talk with anyone wanting to > run an Installfest in their location, we can provide guidance, materials > etc and if you have a bunch of people, we'll even fly our team there to > help run it. > > > > Thanks for all your support everyone and here's to getting hundreds more > people introduced and running with Ruby on Rails. > > > > Mikel Lindsaar > > Founder > > reInteractive & exec.io > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
