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Co I'm Fred uh long-term rubyist Ruby
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hero 2012 if you remember that thing um
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this presentation is also brought to you
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courtesy of three pubs I went to last
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night um but I had been thinking about
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it before um it's also my cat's idea um
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this's Elon and what we'd like to pitch
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is is Manchester 2024 um like for euru
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not for the European cycling city of the
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year which Manchester is also Bing for
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but that's separate um play this is
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where Manchester is if you didn't know
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um it's home to amazing University sport
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clubs architecture culture it's one of
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the most diverse cities in the UK um the
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UK as a whole has a great set of Ruby
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communities so there's El rug down here
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in London so I'm one of the organizers
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at El rug um we have you know a monthly
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meet up 50 or so people every every
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month um so you are if you are in London
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on the second Monday of a month do come
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and visit us especially if you have a
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talk to give we will love you forever um
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there's Scott Ruby up in the north um
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Southwest Ruby in the southwest near
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Bristol in Bristol and of course andw
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rug um in mancho itself who also don't
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really know that I'm pitching this um
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but I did talk to them at a conference a
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few months ago and they seem interested
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in the idea um this is also Manchester
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or like the Manchester Mark 1
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um one of the first stalled program
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computers like a computer where you
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program it by putting data into it
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rather than by pulling cables at the
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back um so called the Manchester because
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it was developed in
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Manchester um at the University of
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Manchester um by many people including
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um Alan juring who was the director of
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deputy director of the computer lab
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there for several years um Manchester
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also has canals there's one that goes
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all the way to the
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IRSC um and because got a canal it can
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claim to be a Venice of the north as you
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found out there are a lot of cities that
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claim to be the Venice of the north so
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this is the fullest acco to Wikipedia um
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Manchester is here so it's on the list
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um there are several other um past and
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maybe future euru hosts on the list but
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you know we're in good company um
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there's a lot of history before that so
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munium Roman Fort and you know the
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adjective of people who come from
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Manchester is manun so they've kept that
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bit um the oldest surviving inter city
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train station um you know this you know
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rails and Ruby are closely related um
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and yeah there's huge amounts of like
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culture cool stuff art galleries music
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you know it's where Oasis comes from um
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they also have some people who can play
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football if you're into that um you know
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they have food everything from kebabs to
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michan stars and Curry um and you're
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right on the doorstep of the Peak
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District which is you know like the most
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beautiful English Countryside you can
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imagine um it's easy to get to and this
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is the ryion rout map for Manchester
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easy jet fly lots of other plac to
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Manchester to lots of places um there's
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other nearby airports like Birmingham
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you can get the train um so yeah I think
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everyone can get there um but yeah vote
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for
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Manchester
