Care For The Community

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+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes on Slide 15:
FUzed
- rails deployment is a nightmare (getting better)
- apache + fcgi, mongrel, mod_rails
- maybe lightspeed, nginx... something else?
- scaling is memory + boxes
- how do you manage that?
- FUzed
- runs rails apps on YAWS an erlang webserver
- as I’m sure you know it makes scaling simple
- once we use erlang as part of our deploy stack, what then?
- we’ll dig deeper
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 14:
- programming erlang from same publishers
- respected publishers
- I don’t know anything about erlang (no more than 20mins research in my lunch hour today)
- yet I know about lots of buzz and interest within the ruby community
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 13:
why would you care?
- programming ruby - book that popularised the language
- people who like ruby, seem to like things for a reason
- lots of us have gone out on a limb (maybe not so much now with the rails bubble) and chosen ruby over something safer
- we like how expressive ruby is
- how productive it is
- how it frees up our dev time to allow for adequate testing
- stick with it even despite its obvious flaws
- speed, threading, slow pace of development
- not a bad thing some would say
- encourages best efforts (analogue to games industry)
- also, rubyists are pragmatic, something’s not good, either
- go fix it (jruby, rubinius, other VM efforts)
- find an alternative
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 12:
- what next?
- github has a lot of buzz
- social network for code. able to actually see what other guys have written and track, watch, comment on it
- most of the time, we just assume people are good without seeing their code, based on conversations in the pub
- whatever you can use to get people 'together' even if it’s not in real life builds a community
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 11:
- of course, anything that can be used online to let the group connect is good, so we’ll use it
- last.fm (every one listens to music when coding, this was a natural join point)
- flickr for photos of events (to put some faces to it)
- working with rails (developed initially by an LRUG member at his job) / linked in for more work-based things
- lots of recruiters now on mailing list, but also lots of recruitment happening - these sites are useful to get a handle on that aspect of the group
- twitter for last minute meeting updates and announcements
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 10:
- then one night after a meeting 'this bit is the good bit' -> lrug nights
- just the pub bit
- mostly ruby chat, but probably a decent geek meet up for all comers
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 9:
- started using upcoming to promote the events + add calendaring options for people
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 8:
people want to get together, NOT JUST TO LEARN
- extremely social (and not just because rails apps all appear to be social networks)
- with website and mailing list, and being geeks an irc channel naturally followed this
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 7:
real answer: passion
- more than any other group of developers I’ve known
- everyone is doing something in their spare time
- did a 'show’n’tell' code evening a few months back
- lots of folk ready and willing to show off something they’d done
- generally quite easy to get people to talk about something nowadays as everyone has a pet project or something under their belt
- harking back to logo: wild west, lots of ground to claim (speed, library support, etc...)
+ Murray Steele 2 years ago
Presenter Notes for Slide 6:
What changed?
- flippant answer: rails
- huge explosion in attendance in the past 6 months
- lots of new faces, they’re pretty much all rails guys.
- before == even split.
- but - lots of developers != big ug (java)

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Care For The Community - Presentation Transcript

Care For The Community Erlang eXchange User Group Sessions 26th June 2008
LRUG? London Ruby User Group http://lrug.org
Me?
A Little History 2006 http://ﬂickr.com/photos/paulhammond/126602183/
A Little History 2006 2008 http://ﬂickr.com/photos/paulhammond/126602183/ http://ﬂickr.com/photos/snowblink/2574309878/
What changed? http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RubyOnRailsMedia
Passion http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/05/rails_is_love.html
Sociality http://lrug.org #lrug chat@lrug.org
Sociality http://lrug.org #lrug chat@lrug.org
Sociality http://lrug.org #lrug chat@lrug.org
Sociality http://lrug.org #lrug chat@lrug.org
Sociality http://lrug.org #lrug chat@lrug.org github
So...? 2004 http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby
So...? 2004 2007 http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang
fuzed http://fuzed.rubyforge.org rails + erlang == scale
~ﬁn~