Tucson Digital Arts Community

Jared McFarland will be giving a presentation covering Ruby on Rails on May 1st, at 6pm at 115 East Broadway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85701.  Here’s a list of things I’ll be going over:

• What is Ruby?
• What is Rails?
• Setting up a new Rails App
• Scaffolding
• Database Migrations
• IRB
• RJS
• Ruby Console
• Some outside RoR resources that will be helpful

I’m going to do a really common tutorial known as the “15 minute blog tutorial”.  If you’d like to follow along you’ll need a computer with:

• A text editor
• Command line access
• MySQL Database
• Ruby on Rails

You can get Ruby on Rails those by following these links:

Windows: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnWindows
Macintosh: http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html

We’ll be hosting a private screening of the film Helvetica on Thursday, May 22nd.  The meet-up will begin around 7pm at The Screening Room with the film beginning at 7:30pm.  Afterwards join us at Hotel Congress for drinks and discussion.

This screening will be free, however a donation of $5 is requested.

The Screening Room is located in downtown Tucson on the North side of Congress Street just West of 6th Avenue. 127 E Congress St., Tucson, AZ 85701

Community Storytelling Arts will be teaching digital storytelling workshops on a regular basis. All workshops are four full days from 9 AM – 5 PM. Workshop participants share stories, write and record narration, choose photos, video clips, and music, and learn to edit a short digital video of their own true story. These stories can be used for personal enrichment, family life histories, community and team building, training, advocacy, recruiting, fundraising and technology literacy. At the end of your four-day workshop you will have a 3-5 minute digital story. Participants are given materials prior to the workshop to assist them in preparation, including important resources, reading, and suggestions for story ideas, images, and use of video clips. The workshop is $495 per person. Registration is limited to 10 participants per workshop.

Location: El Centro Cultural de las Americas, 40 W. Broadway, Tucson, AZ. Parking is available across the street from El Centro.

Workshop dates: June 17-20, 2008; October 7-10, 2008; and December 3-6, 2008
To register and for more information please contact: therese@bayviewmedia.com