ruby_manor_analysis.rb

require "ruby_manor_participation"

conversations = YAML.load_file("ruby_manor_participation.yml")
manor_harder = conversations.select { |c| Date.parse(c.date) > Date.parse("2009-10-01") }

conversations_by_participant = manor_harder.inject({}) do |a, c|
  c.participants.uniq.each do |p|
    a[p] ||= []
    a[p] << c
  end
  a
end

number_of_participants = conversations_by_participant.keys.length # => 77
conversations_by_participant.map { |p, c|
  [p, c.length]
}.sort_by { |x| x[1] } # => [["james croft", 1], ["inouemak@googlemail.com", 1], ["Zach Inglis", 1], ["hampton catlin", 1], ["Karl Doody", 1], ["Rob McKinnon", 1], ["James Harrison", 1], ["Graham Ashton", 1], ["Tom Ward", 1], ["Aleksandar Simic", 1], ["jase", 1], ["Mari Carmen Gutierrez", 1], ["David A. Black", 1], ["Kenneth Lee", 1], ["Richard Taylor", 1], ["Matt Westcott", 1], ["Ben G", 1], ["Will Jessop", 1], ["Tom Taylor", 1], ["Alex MacCaw", 1], ["jds", 1], ["Paul Battley", 1], ["Niko Felger", 1], ["James Darling", 1], ["\212ťastn� Jakub", 1], ["Piers Cawley", 1], ["Matt Southerden", 1], ["Shaun McDonald", 1], ["Viktor Tron", 1], ["Sean O'Halpin", 1], ["Luismi Cavall\351", 1], ["Matt Wynne", 1], ["Sergio Gil", 1], ["Jonathan Conway", 2], ["Kalvir Sandhu", 2], ["railsnut", 2], ["Julian Burgess", 2], ["Martin Kleppmann", 2], ["Kalv", 2], ["Matthew Rudy Jacobs", 2], ["Eleanor McHugh", 2], ["Alan Kennedy", 2], ["Matt House", 2], ["Hampton", 2], ["Richard Livsey", 2], ["Levent Ali", 2], ["Bartosz Blimke", 2], ["John Arundel", 2], ["Nasir", 2], ["Eddy", 2], ["George Palmer", 2], ["Pavel Kunc", 2], ["James Mead", 3], ["Daniel Lucraft", 3], ["Loughlin-McHugh", 3], ["Ben Griffiths", 3], ["tomtt", 3], ["Matthew O'Riordan", 3], ["Kerry Buckley", 4], ["Anthony Green", 4], ["Thomas R. Koll", 4], ["Joseph Wilk", 4], ["Chris Lowis", 4], ["Chris Roos", 5], ["Martin Sadler", 5], ["botanicus", 6], ["edavey", 6], ["Peter Ferne", 6], ["alan", 7], ["Tom Lea", 7], ["Jason Cale", 8], ["David Salgado", 9], ["The Guvner", 10], ["Matt Patterson", 10], ["Roland Swingler", 12], ["Murray Steele", 15], ["James Adam", 19]]

ruby_manor_participation.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "hpricot"
require "mechanize"
require "open-uri"
require "typhoeus"
require "yaml"

class Conversation
  attr_reader :title, :participants, :date
  def initialize(title, participants, date)
    @title = title
    @participants = participants
    @date = date
  end
end

def threads
  @agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
  all_threads = threads_from_page(@agent.get("http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-manor/topics?gvc=2"))
  p "found #{all_threads.uniq.length} threads"
  all_threads.uniq
end

def threads_from_page(page)
  links = page.links_with(:href => /\/group\/ruby-manor\/browse_thread\/thread\//)
  results = links.map { |l| (l.uri.to_s =~ /^http/) ? l.uri.to_s : ("http://groups.google.com" + l.uri.to_s) }
  if page.links_with(:text => /Older/).any?
    puts "clicking to next page..."
    results + threads_from_page(page.links_with(:text => /Older/).first.click)
  else
    results
  end
end

def conversation(url, data)
  doc = Hpricot(data)
  title = (doc/"#thread_subject_site")[0].to_plain_text.strip
  authors = (doc/".author").map { |e| e.to_plain_text.gsub("\302\240", "").strip }
  date = (doc/"#hdn_date").map { |e| e.attributes["value"].gsub("\302\240", "").strip }[0]
  puts "Conversation at #{url} has #{authors.length} authors"
  Conversation.new(title, authors, date)
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  hydra = Typhoeus::Hydra.new(:max_concurrency => 10)

  requests = threads.map do |uri|
    r = Typhoeus::Request.new(uri)
    r.on_complete do |response|
      conversation(uri, response.body)
    end
    hydra.queue(r)
    r
  end

  hydra.run # this is a blocking call that returns once all requests are complete
  conversations = requests.map { |r| r.handled_response }
  File.open("ruby_manor_participation.yml", "w") { |f| f.write conversations.to_yaml }
end

ruby_manor_participation.yml

--- 
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Mar 22, 5:59am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Eleanor McHugh
  title: Videos now online
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 12 2009, 1:58pm
  participants: 
  - Aleksandar Simic
  - "\x8A\xC5\xA5astn\xFD Jakub"
  - Loughlin-McHugh
  - Martin Kleppmann
  - James Adam
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Jason Cale
  - Thomas R. Koll
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Chris Lowis
  - Bartosz Blimke
  - "\x8A\xC5\xA5astn\xFD Jakub"
  - Ben Griffiths
  - James Mead
  - Matt Patterson
  - Loughlin-McHugh
  title: Presentation links?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 1 2009, 11:01am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  - "Luismi Cavall\xE9"
  - Sergio Gil
  - Karl Doody
  - Mari Carmen Gutierrez
  - Zach Inglis
  - jds
  - Eddy
  title: Spare tickets?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 10 2009, 11:23am
  participants: 
  - Eddy
  title: Want a spare ticket to Ruby Manor conference
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 9 2009, 5:51pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Tom Ward
  title: Tom ward still has a spare ticket
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 8 2009, 9:58am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  - Thomas R. Koll
  - Thomas R. Koll
  - Shaun McDonald
  title: The Manor Approacheth
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 9 2009, 5:50pm
  participants: 
  - Richard Livsey
  title: Spare bed/couch/floor/bath?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 1 2009, 4:46pm
  participants: 
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Tom Lea
  title: Anybody interested in a lightning talk on P2P file transfers with Ruby?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 17 2009, 10:11am
  participants: 
  - Richard Livsey
  - Matt Patterson
  - James Adam
  - Richard Livsey
  - Martin Sadler
  - Kerry Buckley
  - alan
  - Bartosz Blimke
  - Roland Swingler
  - Bartosz Blimke
  - Richard Livsey
  - Kalvir Sandhu
  title: "Proposal: Fake it till you make it"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 1 2009, 4:59am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  title: The final talks
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 30 2009, 3:24pm
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  title: Final tickets on sale Tuesday 1st of December (tomorrow)
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 5 2009, 7:10am
  participants: 
  - Kalv
  - Roland Swingler
  - railsnut
  - botanicus
  - Matt Patterson
  - David Salgado
  - Matthew O'Riordan
  - Levent Ali
  - James Adam
  - Martin Sadler
  - alan
  - Kalv
  title: Eventmachine & AMQP
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 24 2009, 3:35pm
  participants: 
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Matt Patterson
  - Roland Swingler
  - Alan Kennedy
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Matt Patterson
  - Murray Steele
  - Matt Patterson
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Matt Southerden
  title: Denormalizing your Rails application
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 30 2009, 8:31am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  title: Manor-ing Harder this year are...
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 26 2009, 12:04pm
  participants: 
  - John Arundel
  - David Salgado
  - John Arundel
  title: Fancy a Ruby?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 26 2009, 6:33pm
  participants: 
  - Tom Lea
  - Anthony Green
  title: "Presentation: Cache My App Up"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 5 2009, 9:19am
  participants: 
  - Martin Kleppmann
  - james croft
  - Martin Kleppmann
  - Joseph Wilk
  - edavey
  - Martin Kleppmann
  title: "Talk proposal: Browser-level testing: Selenium, Watir, WebDriver etc. in real life"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 9 2009, 5:11pm
  participants: 
  - jase
  - James Adam
  - Tom Lea
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Jason Cale
  - Anthony Green
  - James Darling
  - James Adam
  - Roland Swingler
  - James Darling
  - Tom Lea
  - Thomas R. Koll
  title: "Presentation: What a nice rack"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 25 2009, 9:05am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Ben Griffiths
  - Loughlin-McHugh
  - James Adam
  - Matt Patterson
  - Jason Cale
  title: It's reckoning time, McClane!
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 23 2009, 5:50pm
  participants: 
  - hampton catlin
  - Jason Cale
  - David Salgado
  - Roland Swingler
  - Hampton
  - Alan Kennedy
  - Hampton
  - Murray Steele
  - Hampton
  - James Adam
  - Hampton
  - Hampton
  - inouemak@googlemail.com
  - Julian Burgess
  - Hampton
  title: "Talk Proposal: Building An App in 30 minutes on Android, iPhone and Palm Pre."
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 23 2009, 9:39pm
  participants: 
  - Loughlin-McHugh
  - David Salgado
  - Roland Swingler
  - Niko Felger
  - Piers Cawley
  - Murray Steele
  - Hampton
  - Murray Steele
  - Hampton
  - Loughlin-McHugh
  - Loughlin-McHugh
  title: "Go: Google's answer to dotNet and Java"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 25 2009, 9:27am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  title: Welcome to the party, pal
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 17 2009, 11:58am
  participants: 
  - botanicus
  - botanicus
  title: Introduction of the Rango Framework
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 9 2009, 10:08am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - James Adam
  - Chris Roos
  - alan
  - Jason Cale
  title: "Presentation: Vanilla.rb"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 23 2009, 2:54pm
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - Murray Steele
  title: "Roundup #3"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 22 2009, 7:53pm
  participants: 
  - Eleanor McHugh
  title: Breaking stuff with JRuby
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 11 2009, 6:30am
  participants: 
  - Jason Cale
  - alan
  - David Salgado
  - David Salgado
  - Roland Swingler
  title: "Proposal: Building cross platform mobile applications with Rhodes."
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 10 2009, 5:12pm
  participants: 
  - Paul Battley
  - James Adam
  - Tom Lea
  - edavey
  - Matt Westcott
  - Roland Swingler
  - Murray Steele
  - Nasir
  - botanicus
  - alan
  title: "Proposal: Secrets of the standard library"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 14 2009, 3:27pm
  participants: 
  - Ben G
  - David Salgado
  - edavey
  - Peter Ferne
  - James Adam
  - Martin Sadler
  - Murray Steele
  - Ben Griffiths
  - Matt Patterson
  - James Adam
  - alan
  title: Short order ruby talk proposal
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 12 2009, 5:43am
  participants: 
  - George Palmer
  - James Adam
  - James Adam
  - Joseph Wilk
  - Peter Ferne
  - James Adam
  - George Palmer
  - Murray Steele
  - Pavel Kunc
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - David Salgado
  - Pavel Kunc
  - George Palmer
  - Matthew O'Riordan
  - Anthony Green
  - Tom Lea
  - Peter Ferne
  - David Salgado
  - botanicus
  - James Adam
  - botanicus
  - botanicus
  - alan
  title: "Talk Proposal: What we can learn from Django"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 14 2009, 3:07pm
  participants: 
  - Julian Burgess
  - Murray Steele
  - Matt Patterson
  - Julian Burgess
  title: "Short talk idea: Symbol v String"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 17 2009, 9:43am
  participants: 
  - railsnut
  - botanicus
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - railsnut
  - railsnut
  - Martin Sadler
  - Jonathan Conway
  - edavey
  - railsnut
  - Roland Swingler
  title: "Talk Idea: Kanban - evolving a workflow using common sense"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 16 2009, 3:30pm
  participants: 
  - Chris Lowis
  - Chris Lowis
  - Matt House
  - David Salgado
  - Nasir
  - Levent Ali
  - James Adam
  - Matt Patterson
  - Chris Lowis
  - edavey
  title: Ruby plotting/graphing libraries?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 17 2009, 6:18am
  participants: 
  - Matt Patterson
  - John Arundel
  - botanicus
  title: Applescript & Ruby
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 10 2009, 5:57pm
  participants: 
  - Jason Cale
  - James Adam
  - Jason Cale
  - Tom Lea
  - Jason Cale
  - Peter Ferne
  - Richard Taylor
  - Peter Ferne
  - Roland Swingler
  - Murray Steele
  - Matt Patterson
  title: "Proposal: The Joy of Painting with Ruby"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 11 2009, 7:19pm
  participants: 
  - Chris Roos
  - Kalvir Sandhu
  - Murray Steele
  title: Another talk idea - library/code organisation
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 13 2009, 5:30am
  participants: 
  - David Salgado
  - Matt House
  - Martin Sadler
  - David Salgado
  - David Salgado
  title: "Talk idea: Crunching log data with Hive"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 16 2009, 4:01pm
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: The schedule
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 16 2009, 11:03am
  participants: 
  - tomtt
  - Kerry Buckley
  title: "Proposal: the need for and usage of xpath for cucumber steps"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 16 2009, 7:24am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  title: "Wotcha! Round Up #2"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 13 2009, 8:58am
  participants: 
  - Matthew O'Riordan
  - Matthew O'Riordan
  title: "Talk Proposal: Heroku and other Ruby hosting solutions"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 12 2009, 8:02am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - tomtt
  - Pavel Kunc
  - James Adam
  - Peter Ferne
  title: Why don't I Rip you a new one
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 10 2009, 8:36am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Graham Ashton
  - Jason Cale
  - Chris Roos
  - tomtt
  - Kerry Buckley
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - Peter Ferne
  title: "Proposal: Gem That"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 12 2009, 4:25am
  participants: 
  - Thomas R. Koll
  - Peter Ferne
  title: talk proposals
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 11 2009, 4:27am
  participants: 
  - Chris Roos
  - Tom Taylor
  - Kerry Buckley
  - James Mead
  - Chris Roos
  title: Talk ideas
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 2 2009, 10:11am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - George Palmer
  - David A. Black
  - James Adam
  - Tom Lea
  - Joseph Wilk
  - Kalv
  - edavey
  title: Cucumber
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 9 2009, 4:29pm
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  title: "Yippe Kai-Yay it's the Ruby Manor 2 Roundup #1"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 3 2009, 5:26am
  participants: 
  - James Mead
  - Roland Swingler
  - Murray Steele
  - James Mead
  title: Testing styles, techniques & strategies
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 4 2009, 12:49pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - James Harrison
  - Chris Lowis
  title: Ticket swaps
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 2 2009, 12:42pm
  participants: 
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - Murray Steele
  - Viktor Tron
  - Kenneth Lee
  - Chris Roos
  - Anthony Green
  - Will Jessop
  - Anthony Green
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - Anthony Green
  - Chris Lowis
  title: Sold out already?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 2 2009, 8:34am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - Roland Swingler
  - Joseph Wilk
  - Matt Wynne
  title: What do you want to talk about?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 23 2009, 6:50am
  participants: 
  - The Guvner
  title: Ruby Manor 2 - They say lightning never strikes twice
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 9 2009, 6:23pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - James Harrison
  - Richard Livsey
  - Nasir
  - Roland Swingler
  - Murray Steele
  - Gultekin Suleyman
  - Matt Patterson
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - James Adam
  - ja...@balvedastudios.com
  - Matt Patterson
  - David A. Black
  - Anthony Green
  - David A. Black
  - mattwestcott
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Dan Webb
  title: This year?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Jan 16 2009, 5:04am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - Sean O'Halpin
  title: Ruby Manor - videos now available!
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 23 2008, 3:57pm
  participants: 
  - Dan Webb
  - George Palmer
  - Paul Battley
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Murray Steele
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Sean O'Halpin
  title: Presentation slides
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Dec 8 2008, 10:09am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  title: Videos coming sooner than soon
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 28 2008, 5:00am
  participants: 
  - Jon Lim
  title: Photos (digital only)
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 23 2008, 12:46pm
  participants: 
  - David A. Black
  - Tom Ward
  - David A. Black
  - Piers Cawley
  - David A. Black
  - pdcawley
  - David A. Black
  - Piers Cawley
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - Piers Cawley
  - David A. Black
  - David Beckwith
  - David A. Black
  - David Beckwith
  - James Adam
  title: The use case!
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 26 2008, 8:15am
  participants: 
  - Martin Sadler
  title: Monkeybars presentation slides now online
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 23 2008, 3:43pm
  participants: 
  - James Darling
  - James Darling
  title: UK Government Hack Day sign up URL
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 22 2008, 4:20pm
  participants: 
  - James Harrison
  title: Thank You
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 30 2008, 7:50am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - alibomaye@gmail.com
  - dicouw
  - weepy
  - kwicher
  - alibomaye@gmail.com
  - Murray Steele
  - kwicher
  - JDS
  - Jonathan Lim
  - Julian Burgess
  - James Andrews
  - Kim
  - Jonah Fox
  - James Adam
  - Kim
  - JDS
  - JDS
  - Paul Nasrat
  - Andrew Threlfall
  - Paul Wilson
  - "Jo\xE3o Paulo Lins"
  - supaspoida
  - Andrew Threlfall
  - Paul Wilson
  title: We sold out! Got a spare ticket?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 21 2008, 1:20pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  title: Speakers - projector resolution
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 17 2008, 6:15pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - JDS
  - George Palmer
  - jag
  - James Adam
  - Piotr Laszewski
  - Shaun McDonald
  - Murray Steele
  title: Ruby Manor Survival Guide
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 19 2008, 1:29pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Jason Cale
  - James Harrison
  - James Adam
  - George Palmer
  - Matt Patterson
  - Santosh Kumar
  - Graham Ashton
  - jag
  - James Adam
  title: Anyone fancy helping out on the day?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 21 2008, 9:10am
  participants: 
  - Martin Sadler
  - Jason Cale
  - Murray Steele
  title: Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter (to connect to MacBook)
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 21 2008, 10:01am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: Pre-Manor get together tonight
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 21 2008, 4:46am
  participants: 
  - Martin Sadler
  - James Adam
  title: Monkeybars Talk
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 18 2008, 12:44pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - smsm1
  - supaspoida
  title: Pubs near the venue
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 24 2008, 12:39pm
  participants: 
  - Tom Locke
  - James Adam
  - Tom Locke
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - Tom Locke
  - petef
  - StevieH
  title: "Proposal: Something on Hobo?"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 14 2008, 6:21am
  participants: 
  - tron
  - Nick Black
  - Murray Steele
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Jonah Fox
  - Nick Black
  - alibomaye@gmail.com
  title: tickets?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 15 2008, 10:09am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Ben Griffiths
  - Craig Webster
  - James Cox
  - Murray Steele
  - James Adam
  - Chris Lowis
  - Murray Steele
  - David A. Black
  - Alex MacCaw
  - James Adam
  - James Adam
  - Peter Ferne
  - James Adam
  - James Harrison
  - Jason Cale
  - James Adam
  - Tim Cowlishaw
  - James Harrison
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - Luke Redpath
  - Luke Redpath
  - James Harrison
  title: What to do with the rest of the money?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 13 2008, 8:14am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  title: Power at RubyManor
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 16 2008, 10:06am
  participants: 
  - rarepleasures
  - Murray Steele
  - Pratik
  - Tom Ward
  - Matt Wynne
  - Martin Sadler
  - James Adam
  - Anthony Green
  - Pratik
  - Matt Wynne
  - Roland Swingler
  - James Cox
  - Murray Steele
  - inouemak@googlemail.com
  - rarepleasures
  - jag
  title: "\"talk-suggestions\" - Discussion"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 8 2008, 5:39am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: The mChosen Ones
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Nov 2 2008, 3:12pm
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - James Adam
  - George Palmer
  - David Salgado
  - Martin Sadler
  - Murray Steele
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Jason Cale
  - George Palmer
  - George Palmer
  - James Adam
  - Dan Webb
  - Kalvir Sandhu
  - Paul Nasrat
  title: Bi-Weekly Summary - The Sixth Son of a Seventh Son
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 6 2008, 7:02am
  participants: 
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - Anthony Green
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - Murray Steele
  - Roland Swingler
  - Anthony Green
  - James Croft
  - James Adam
  - Anthony Green
  - Murray Steele
  - Peter Ferne
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Roland Swingler
  - Steve Butterworth
  - James Cox
  - Kalvir Sandhu
  - petef
  - James Smith
  - James Adam
  - Alex MacCaw
  - James Adam
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Rob McKinnon
  title: "Talk Suggestion: Acts As Recommendable - recommendations for Rails"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 23 2008, 11:56am
  participants: 
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Vince Scott
  - Steve Butterworth
  - Nasir Jamal
  title: "Talk suggestion: Ruby APIs for semantic analysis"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 24 2008, 6:43am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - Dan Webb
  - James Adam
  - Roland Swingler
  - horsfallp@googlemail.com
  title: "Proposal: Tying your shoes"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 14 2008, 8:56am
  participants: 
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Murray Steele
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Murray Steele
  - Chris Lowis
  - James Cox
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Daniel Lucraft
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Shaun McDonald
  - Murray Steele
  - Daniel Lucraft
  title: Two more talk ideas
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 16 2008, 10:53am
  participants: 
  - thechrisoshow
  - David Salgado
  - James Adam
  - David Salgado
  - petef
  - Chris O'Sullivan
  - Peter Ferne
  - Gerhard
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - Ben Griffiths
  - simonf
  - Chris O'Sullivan
  - Murray Steele
  title: Unit Testing Javascript within your Rails Application
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 23 2008, 6:44pm
  participants: 
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - James Adam
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - James Adam
  - Dan Webb
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - David Salgado
  - Chris Lowis
  - Murray Steele
  title: "Talk suggestions: message based apps in ruby / unobtrusive metaprogramming"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 12 2008, 12:06pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - James Adam
  title: Vanilla.rb
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 18 2008, 10:17am
  participants: 
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Dan Webb
  - James Adam
  - Jonathan Conway
  - James Adam
  - Martin Sadler
  - Roland Swingler
  - petef
  - inouemak@googlemail.com
  - Jonathan Conway
  - mnemonaut
  - Dan Webb
  - James Adam
  - Dan Webb
  - James Adam
  - vincey
  - Murray Steele
  title: Talk Suggestion
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 14 2008, 11:32am
  participants: 
  - smsm1
  - James Cox
  - James Croft
  - Murray Steele
  - Shaun McDonald
  - Rob McKinnon
  - smsm1
  - David Salgado
  title: "Talk suggestion: OpenStreetMap's use of Ruby on Rails"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 23 2008, 12:45pm
  participants: 
  - Dan Webb
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Will Jessop
  - Jason Cale
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Roland Swingler
  - Sean O'Halpin
  - Nasir Jamal
  - Dan Webb
  - Alex MacCaw
  - Pratik
  - Levent Ali
  - David Salgado
  title: "Talk Suggestion: 8 minutes on Rack"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 23 2008, 12:37pm
  participants: 
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - Chris O'Sullivan
  - Levent Ali
  - James Adam
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  title: "Talk Suggestion: \"Ruby vs The World\" eg. mostly about the Django"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 12 2008, 2:58pm
  participants: 
  - George Palmer
  - Roland Swingler
  - Anthony Green
  - Craig Webster
  - Anthony Green
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - George Palmer
  - Murray Steele
  - Anthony Green
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - Will Jessop
  - Anthony Green
  - Anthony Green
  - Alex MacCaw
  - George Palmer
  - Peter Ferne
  - Paul Nasrat
  - George Palmer
  title: A couple of talk idea
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 24 2008, 8:33am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: Going.... going.... GONE!
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 24 2008, 5:00am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  title: Going.... going....
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 23 2008, 9:30am
  participants: 
  - Martin Sadler
  - Murray Steele
  - Martin Sadler
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - Levent Ali
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Martin Sadler
  - Dan Webb
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - Rob McKinnon
  title: "Talk suggestion: Monkeybars in 8 minutes"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 16 2008, 2:38pm
  participants: 
  - Techbelly
  - Roland Swingler
  - Pratik
  - James Adam
  - Ben Griffiths
  - James Adam
  - Chris Lowis
  - petef
  - mnemonaut
  - Paul Battley
  - James Adam
  - Rob McKinnon
  title: Talk Suggestion - Ruby R and Ruby command-line
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 22 2008, 10:12am
  participants: 
  - Rob McKinnon
  - Roland Swingler
  - George Palmer
  - Rob McKinnon
  - David Salgado
  - Levent Ali
  - Jonathan Conway
  title: "Talk suggestion: Rugalytics - making a dynamic API to Google Analytics data"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 2 2008, 10:10am
  participants: 
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - James Harrison
  - Gerhard
  - Gerhard
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  - George Palmer
  - Murray Steele
  - Matthew Rudy Jacobs
  title: Talk Suggestion - Solr/ActsAsSolr/SolrRails/SolR b?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 3 2008, 6:00am
  participants: 
  - Chris Lowis
  - Roland Swingler
  - James Adam
  - Anthony Green
  - Chris Lowis
  - Roland Swingler
  - Matt King
  - vincey
  - David Salgado
  - Will Jessop
  - Chris Lowis
  - monkeymind
  title: "Talk suggestion : Something about Emacs"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 16 2008, 8:20am
  participants: 
  - Paul Battley
  - Anthony Green
  - Paul Battley
  - James Adam
  - Martin Sadler
  - Roland Swingler
  - Tom Armitage
  - Jonathan Conway
  - petef
  - inouemak@googlemail.com
  - Paul Battley
  title: "Talk suggestion: I'm an evil iPlayer hacker"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 17 2008, 5:23am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - Murray Steele
  title: Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines...
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 20 2008, 5:04am
  participants: 
  - 06sheelaa258@gmail.com
  - Murray Steele
  - malani
  - Murray Steele
  title: are you reday to earn dollar in home withoiut risk
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 4 2008, 11:30am
  participants: 
  - David A. Black
  - Jonathan Conway
  - Murray Steele
  - Anthony Green
  - Peter Ferne
  - James Adam
  - David A. Black
  - James Adam
  - David A. Black
  - Anthony Green
  - Ben Griffiths
  - Tom Ward
  - Anthony Green
  - David A. Black
  - simonf
  - vincey
  - James Cox
  - David A. Black
  - James Cox
  title: "Talk suggestion: Ruby 1.9: argument semantics, block scope, enumerators"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 19 2008, 4:38pm
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: Weekly summary - pleading the fifth
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 18 2008, 2:22pm
  participants: 
  - Kalv
  - James Adam
  title: Mailing List Word Cloud
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 15 2008, 12:03pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - James Cox
  title: How many tracks?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 13 2008, 9:21pm
  participants: 
  - Techbelly
  - Anthony Green
  - Roland Swingler
  - Ben Griffiths
  - David Salgado
  - James Andrews
  - Vince Scott
  - Techbelly
  - Will Jessop
  - James Andrews
  - David A. Black
  - James Smith
  - Chris O'Sullivan
  - Murray Steele
  title: To the manor...
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 13 2008, 3:01pm
  participants: 
  - Roland Swingler
  - Murray Steele
  title: Deadline for talk suggestions
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 13 2008, 4:54am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: Weekly Summary - Go fourth and multiply
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 8 2008, 10:58am
  participants: 
  - Nickb
  - James Adam
  - Nick Black
  title: Link to a free map (not Google)
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 9 2008, 9:34am
  participants: 
  - Muz
  title: View this page "Living Arrangements"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 5 2008, 4:05pm
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: Weekly summary - third times the charm
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 18 2008, 7:46am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - David Salgado
  - Jason Cale
  - Murray Steele
  - James Cox
  - James Adam
  - Roland Swingler
  - Chris O'Sullivan
  - James Adam
  - Anthony Green
  - James Adam
  - David A. Black
  title: Scheduling for Ruby Manor - no question time?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Oct 1 2008, 5:31pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  title: Ruby Manor tickets available now!
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 28 2008, 5:30pm
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: Weekly summary - parte the seconde
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 21 2008, 7:06pm
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - Makoto Inoue
  - James Adam
  title: Weekly summary - the first.
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 16 2008, 6:45pm
  participants: 
  - James Cox
  - Paul Battley
  - Tom Ward
  - Shawn Anderson
  - MatthewRudy
  - James Adam
  - petef
  - James Cox
  title: a couple of proposals...
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 18 2008, 6:04pm
  participants: 
  - Roland Swingler
  - Anthony Green
  title: Talk on Rubinius / Jruby / IronRuby
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 18 2008, 10:15am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Dan Webb
  title: "Venue & Date confirmation: ULU, 22nd November 2008"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 16 2008, 5:03pm
  participants: 
  - shawn42
  - James Adam
  - Shawn Anderson
  title: "\"where-and-when\" - Discussion"
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 16 2008, 7:12am
  participants: 
  - Martin Sadler
  title: Talk suggestions
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 8 2008, 4:54am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - Abdel A Saleh
  - mattwynne
  - James Adam
  - James Smith
  - Martin Sadler
  - Dan Webb
  - Luke Redpath
  - Luke Redpath
  - Dan Webb
  - James Adam
  title: Stuff at conferences you might be used to, but which has actually made you WEAK
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 9 2008, 11:49am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  - Martin Sadler
  - James Adam
  title: WIKI WIKI WIKI wha?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 8 2008, 4:52am
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Paul Doerwald
  - James Adam
  - Paul Doerwald
  - Murray Steele
  title: The Ruby Manor Schedule
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 8 2008, 11:45am
  participants: 
  - Paul Doerwald
  - James Adam
  - Paul Doerwald
  title: Date?
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 8 2008, 10:18am
  participants: 
  - Murray Steele
  title: Welcome to Ruby Manor
- !ruby/object:Conversation 
  date: Sep 3 2008, 6:16pm
  participants: 
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  - James Adam
  - Murray Steele
  title: "\"Glue.rb: Sticky like dry porridge\" (Example! Not serious!)"