About

Helsinki Ruby Brigade is Finland’s premiere Ruby User Group. Whether you’re just curious about Ruby or are a wizard at it, everyone is welcome.

If you’d like to host a meet-up or if you have an idea for a talk, please get in touch with use either through our Meetup page or email.

Hosting a meet-up

We’re always on the prowl for new hosts.

Hosting a meet-up is fairly easy and low effort for the most part. There are a couple of ways that meet-ups are hosted usually:

1. Host it at your offices. This is usually a nice option for companies based in Helsinki. All that is required is seating, a projector or TV, and your choice of drinks, snacks, or food.
2. Arrange a meet-up at a bar or pub or other event venue. Many bars have private cabinets that can be reserved at little or no cost, just make sure that they have a projector available for talks. Your company might want to open a tab for a portion of the evening, but this is by no means compulsory.

For the first option you obviously need to have your company backing you, but a meet-up at a bar can be arranged by anyone.

It’s not compulsory to have talks at meet-ups, but they are a nice way of spreading what you’ve learned lately and good for fostering discussion. Finding a talk or two is usually the hardest part of putting together a meet-up.

We’re also open to other ideas if you have them…