This is the "Pecha Kucha" style talk I delivered at Bubbleconf 2012 in Amsterdam about how I helped the Brazilian market to accelerate the adoption of Ruby as a viable technology

1. How to work with Ruby in Brazil?
The Origins
Fabio Akita
@akitaonrails
codeminer42.com

2. 80’s 90’s 21st Century
Basic
dBase III Clipper
C/Pascal
Delphi
VB
Java
.NET
Perl
PHP
Python
ABAP
Ruby
ObjC
ASP
Javascript

3. 6th largest / GDP
USD 2.5 Trillion

4. 2005

6. 2006
Zero Interest

9. 100
talks

12. 2012 750
attendees
600
online

15. mid-2010 mid-2011
12 months 12 months
18 people
USD 1 Mi

16. mid-2010 mid-2011
12 months 12 months
18 people 45 people
USD 1 Mi USD 2.5 Mi

18. Talk to the
Developers

19. Talk to the
Developers

20. Talk to the
Market

21. Thanks!
@akitaonrails