One of the things I enjoy working at RSB is the 10% personal project time given to each team member to pursue their own interest (sure, we’ve all heard about Google’s 20% time and we hope reach that as we grow). Anyway, that works out to 4 hours or one afternoon’s worth of time. I choose to focus this time on building the Malaysia.rb community.

Ever since Malaysia.rb started in May 2007, we’ve had regular monthly meetups every third Thursday of the month at various locations in the Klang Valley. And, with the first meetup of 2008 coming upon us this week, it is my duty to send out the event announcement:

Malaysia.rb is kicking off 2008 with a bang! The January 2008 Meetup is happening this Thursday and it’s gonna seriously rock.

Four reasons why you shouldn’t miss this meetup:

1. Meeting room with AV facilities and FOOD - MDEC has graciously stepped up to sponsor this month’s location.
2. Special guest, Colin Wong, a Malaysian ex-Googler turned investor. Look out for his talk details below.
3. Free pre-meetup PeepCode screening of “Rails From Scratch Part I” for early birds
4. Two free PeepCode episodes to be won

When:

Thursday, January 17th 2008, 8:00PM

Agenda:

  7:00 - 8:00pm   Pre-meetup PeepCode screening
  8:00 - 8:15pm   Opening by the Organizer
  8:15 - 8:45pm   "From Batu Gajah to Mountain View and Beyond" - Colin Wong
  8:45 - 9:15pm   "Rails Fragment Caching with Interlock" - Kamal Fariz
  9:15 - 9:35pm   Open Lightning Talks
  9:35 - 9:45pm   PeepCode episode lucky draw and close

Cost:

Free. No registration required, just come right in, have a seat, and join the crowd. Invite your friends.

Contact:

kamal.fariz@gmail.com
+60123099143

Where:

PJ Hilton
No 2 Jalan Barat
46200 Petaling Jaya
Malaysia
Location

Directions:

Take the Kelana Jaya LRT line to Asia Jaya. It’s across the Federal Highway from there.

Hope to see you there!

UPDATE The meetup location is now confirmed to be at PJ Hilton. Please RSVP directly to me if you plan on attending so that I can estimate the number of people coming (for food, mostly).

RSB started with myself (Kegan) and Kamal back in August 2007. Today we are proud to announce that we have grown by more than 100%! The new additions to the team are Sean Sean, Aizat, and Saimer.

Sean Sean Tan has been freelancing with us since September 2007. She is our CSS Princess, wielding her magic wand to ensure our web apps are pixel perfect across different browsers. We are excited that she will join us full-time as a new member of the RSB Super Band this December.

Aizat Faiz is the programming genius. He is currently an undergraduate student in Monash University, so we worked out a flexible arrangement that keeps everyone happy. We first met Aizat at the very first Malaysia.rb meetup (there were only three of us that day) and every meetup since. It boggles the mind when you consider how amazingly active Aizat is with involvements in Malaysia.rb, the Malaysian FOSS community, part-timing with QubeConnect and juggling school at the same time. We even managed to team up with him for a couple of Rails competitions. Such talent and drive is hard to come by, so we are extremely happy he is now on board with us.

Finally, I’d like to introduce Saimer Moo - our handyman. He has all the skill set in the whole software product development lifecycle. He can code, do graphic and web design, and perform system administration. A group leader and managing a few people in his previous job, Saimer has joined RSB to venture into a whole new world of Web 2.0.

We are not stopping here. RSB is constantly hiring. Drop me an email personally at kegan@ror.com.my for a chance to work with these amazingly talented people, building the next big thing on awesome hardware.