Ask YC: Ruby/Python user groups?

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I live near Washington, D.C. and I've been trying to come up with new ways to network and meet some local hackers/entrepreneurs. I'm thinking that attending a local Ruby users group meeting (dcrug.org) would be a good way to get started. Do people here tend to have good experiences with (your language of choice) user group meetings?

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I think it's best if you just go without expectations and see if it's to your liking--that's really the only way to know for sure. You might be pleasantly surprised.

I went to a group meeting similar to the one you mentioned at its inception and was really bored, but it has to depend on the people, the presentations, and you.

if you're like me, you can find worthwhile SIGs for all kindsa things: oracle, mySQL, mac, linux, xBSD, solaris, scala/clojure/java, erlang, haskell, .NET / F#, funct. prog'g,

Even if you're not intensively doing, say, linux tuning, or database tuning or .NET, it's still good to keep up with developments.

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