Posted by Ken
OVERVIEW
- April 2, 2006, Sunday, 3:00 - 4:30pm
- Vince, Ken and Guest Speaker Jacob Patton
SUMMARY
Some time was spent introducing one to another and about other AMRUG members' interests.
DETAILS
- Vince talks a bit about Mint and Seaside--CMS with AJAX features. He also provided a quick overview of his http://www.buyindie.net/ project.
- Ken postponed his findings on using CSS hacks, as well as using the XML builder in Rails.
- The group decided to move the next AMRUG meeting to Dupont Circle's JavaHouse.
Guest Speaker Jacob Patton
Jacob Patton, Director of Outreach and Technology, is the sole provider of IT solutions at Free The Slaves. Free The Slaves' mission is to end slavery worldwide, of which you may be aware if you saw the ABC Nightline story in September 2004 about slavery in the United States, or know about bonded child labor in cocoa-growing West Africa. Jacob is looking to Ruby on Rails to solve some of his IT needs at Free The Slaves. Unfortunately, he is also busy traveling for the nonprofit to farflung IT challenged locations. He likes Rails because it allows him to present a good semblence of his IT solution with minimum investment in development time. Provided that a Rails prototype meets his needs, it is likely that Jacob will find help to bolster his IT department of one.
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