# Berlin.rb: A New Monthly Ruby Meetup in Berlin

Berlin.rb is a new monthly meetup for Berlin's Ruby community. Free, second Tuesday of every month. The first one is September 8, with talks by Paweł Strzałkowski and I.

[Berlin.rb](https://berlinrb.org) is a new monthly meetup for people who write Ruby, or are curious about it. A few of us from Berlin's Ruby community are organizing talks, project show-and-tells, and time to meet other people who work in the same language. It's free and open to anyone, whether you've been writing Ruby for fifteen years or installed it last week.

**The first one is Tuesday, September 8, 18:45, at Potsdamer Straße 121. Use the Grover entrance next to Rossmann and head to the third floor.** The evening is hosted and sponsored by [ablefy](https://ablefy.io), with drinks and snacks provided. After that, the second Tuesday of every month.

[Register here.](https://luma.com/lnmj7085) If you can't make it to Berlin, there's a [livestream](https://luma.com/psvh08jx) and it'll be on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@berlinrb_org) afterwards.

## The first meetup

I'm giving the first talk anywhere on [RubyLLM](https://rubyllm.com) 2.0: **RubyLLM 2.0: Beyond Agents**.

**Paweł Strzałkowski**, CTO at Visuality, is giving the second: **HiFuMi: The Story of Building an Online Rails Apps Generator**.

## Why another one

Berlin already has [RUG::B](https://www.rug-b.de), a long-running Ruby user group. Berlin is big enough for both, and more Ruby events are a good thing.

Berlin.rb adds a predictable rhythm: second Tuesday, every month. Put it in your calendar once and stop checking.

## Bigger than Berlin

We don't want this to be just a room in Berlin.

1. We're livestreaming the meetup and publishing the talks on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@berlinrb_org) afterwards, so joining Berlin.rb doesn't require being in Berlin.

2. Berlin.rb is part of [Ruby Europe](https://rubyeurope.com), the umbrella bringing together Ruby communities across the continent and moving speakers between cities.

## Come talk

We want speakers! A deep technical talk, a lightning talk about something you built last weekend, a story about something that went badly in production. If you've never given a talk before, this is a good place for the first one.

Send a sentence or two to [hello@berlinrb.org](mailto:hello@berlinrb.org) and we'll take it from there.

## Host or sponsor us

We want to move around the city. Different neighbourhoods, different offices, so it's easy to reach wherever you happen to live, and so you get to see where other Berlin Ruby teams actually work.

If your company has a space free on a weekday evening, or wants to cover food and drinks, we'd love to hear from you. Sponsorship is what keeps this free and open to everyone, and hosting is the easiest way to put your team in front of Berlin's Ruby community.

[hello@berlinrb.org](mailto:hello@berlinrb.org)

## The people

Berlin.rb is put together by a group of us from around Berlin's Ruby community. The current organizers are listed on [berlinrb.org](https://berlinrb.org/#faq).

[berlinrb.org](https://berlinrb.org) · [Luma](https://luma.com/berlinrb) · [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@berlinrb_org) · [X](https://x.com/berlinrb_org) · [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/berlinrb.bsky.social) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/berlinrb)

See you on the 8th.