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hello everybody it's great that you're
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here
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welcome uh what happened if the next
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generation of Ruby next generation of
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developer choose Ruby and how we can
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achieve that goal and how Ruby how
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meetups have this important role of the
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sustain and energize the technology I'll
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be talking about that today uh in my
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presentation I'm marish kuu I am a CEO
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of visuality visuality is a software
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house so it's a software house it's we
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name it only in Poland it's a software
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agency specializing of course in Ruby on
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Rails and I'm former CTO of that company
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I really I really like to highlight that
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I was a c CTO because my my friend who
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has the similar puth as I had say that
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we was degradated to be a CEO it's F
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kind of true and you can ask what I am
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doing
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here and my journey
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start 14 years ago with Ruby and that
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time I'm visiting was Ruby user group
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and learning a lot from there and that
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time I I was also really uh scary to
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talk to people and networking so I don't
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be like marage that time but really my
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story started two and a half year ago
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when in visuality as a software agency
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Consulting agency really care about
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quality and we had really good process
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inside the company to share knowledge we
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decided to return back to the
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community and we started with visiting
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local meetups and making
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presentations and conferences and after
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that we realized that there is a need to
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reactivate Meetup in waro so we
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reactivated meet up in Oro and from
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there it went wild so after a year later
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we run our first conference it was an on
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anniversary of our Meetup it's a
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conference with really long name
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everybody complaining about that and now
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I understand that it's a ruby waso
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Community Conference and now we even
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want to change the place to kco so it
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will be also Community Conference in CCO
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I don't know maybe or we around it we'll
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see we already Run free conferences
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because we are doing that every six
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month and in the meantime we establish
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polish User Group to help Polish
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Community to exchange speaker it was our
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primary goal and to group all those
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people in one
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Discord and from there Poland was done
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and I was like addicted with the Ruby
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what do more where to go next and we
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visited our client in Amsterdam why not
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run meet up there so we have helped to
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with Amsterdam RB to run meet up and we
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bring the presentation and two workshops
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and we on meet up there and we met a lot
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of new friends there and after that I
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have helped to establish Barcelona RB
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Meetup there was nothing before and in
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the middle of the conference I talked
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with Eleni that he is living in
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Barcelona but there is no meetups and he
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would like to have it there and he said
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that
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he don't know how to do that I said I
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know I can help you and we did that and
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we have shave or on on our meet up 45
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people and it was great and this point
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lead me
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to to to this need that there is a need
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to establish something like Ruby Central
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but inside Europe to help this community
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to grow to help Community to revive
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after the pandemic because there is
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still still so many places which are
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which don't have local meetups but let's
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come back to the root of problem so who
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know
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euru it's the biggest European
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conference it's a conference which take
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place 21 years it's a conference which
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change host and the city every every
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year and there was 17 cities and as you
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can imagine this conference the biggest
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conference changed people career
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and life and it's it's gathered
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Community around those cities so all
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those cities had a community Ruby
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committee and active meup St but you
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know what now we have only seven of them
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and of course pandemic hit has hard but
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it's even worse because there's only
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three really active one from those
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cities which had euru and Barcelona is a
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freshly revived
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One Amsterdam even if they had rails
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world they run only two meetups last uh
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this year and vus also struggle with
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with speakers and there is a need of
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help so why it's like that pandemic of
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course we not but it was long time ago
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it should show up but is it hard to run
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a Meetup I believe it's not that hard
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and everybody of you can do that and but
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it's difficult to sustain the meup to to
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do it every month because you have to
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think about it immediately on that
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Meetup you have to think kind of about
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the next one because you have to bring
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new speakers you have to bring maybe new
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venue or the
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sponsors so you have to find your
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purpose why to do
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that and we would like to help with that
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and as a ruby Europe we want to bring a
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tools we want to bring fix those
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problems so help to uh to promote those
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those meetups help organizer uh prep be
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prepar how to do that and how to sustain
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those meetups and how to find speakers
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and how to speak in
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general and I would like to bring
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um few only few examples why that's
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important to have those meetups to have
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this community in your city and it's an
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example from the first year of uh woro
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meetups how much we have learned from in
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this one year I think it's the major
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point for a lot of us so we have two
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topics about the Hotwire we have four
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topics about doand driven design one
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about race even store and three topics
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about Dom driven design architecture in
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pure Ruby on rail application we have
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three topics about domain databases and
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those some of them was a really deep one
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and we have two topics about how to
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write test and test optimization and we
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brought those idea to our clients and we
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helped them save money on their CI
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thanks to that and there was so many
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other other uh topics on in only this
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one year uh and I believe that it's
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really low effort to meet for two to
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four hours every month to talk with the
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friends and drink beer and eat pizza or
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barbecue and it's great here's is a QR
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code we recorded most of that videos
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from from our Meetup and you can see
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it's there I really like this quote the
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fastest way to change yourself is to
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hang out with people who are who are
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already the way you want to be our
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community and as you can see here on
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this conference all those speakers are
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really open you can talk to everybody
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there and you can talk to Aon pteron and
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ask him any question
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and talk to
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him and I always really like to bring
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this photo which which is generated by
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AI we are like smiling with red noses
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and red eyes and it's even doesn't
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matter that the cold is on the opposite
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side of the
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screen we are a great community and on
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my journey When I visit a lot of
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conference I have met multiple friends I
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have friends in zurri Paris Berlin uh
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vus Bucharest and I know that I can call
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them when I will be there and they will
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meet with
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me so here is a we created a ruby Europe
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site where we put all meetups and the
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conferences on on the map and this a
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States from uh almost two months ago
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when I first presenting on the uh on the
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Euro conference and here's the states of
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current so there are more already I'm
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not sure that you see that but our
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mission is to bring those meetups into
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the create those communities in those
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biggest cities in Europe and connect
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those cities with each other to to
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exchange speakers to exchange sponsors
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to to share knowledge between between
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each other and share people also and
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attend this and create this exchange
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exchange speakers program how cool is to
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go to another city to talk on the on the
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Meetup and we would like to help with
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that so currently we have more and more
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conferences more and more meetups which
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is great but I believe that we meet more
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this month there will be 41 meetups in
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in November 2024
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worldwide which is great but I believe
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that we need more and we need this take
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this momentum and run more and more and
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keep going with the community but why
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these small Gatherings are that
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important I believe it's a best place
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you are your exposure to the new ideas
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new tools new best practices and
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everything which is in in those
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presentation and those exposures
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inspires you maybe you can bring your
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own idea for the presentation for the
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lighting talk or for the open source or
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maybe you you will create your own
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startup and there you can find the the
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friends the closest friends because you
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are meeting every month with those
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people and you can find a coworker there
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or co-founder of your of your
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startup and it's also the best place to
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start your journey with the speaking
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I really convince you to do that to
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bring maybe lighting talk and it's the
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best place to bring it into the your
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city it's a small column environment
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where you can speak and I have so many
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examples from my hood for example myself
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I was like two and a half year ago when
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we started with four so meetups I was
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like freezed and panicked I pushed my
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friend to go welcome people because I
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was I was too afraid to do that and now
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I'm doing that I'm still nervous of
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course
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uh but I'm doing that uh the second
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example we one of our attendees on our
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Meetup we even didn't know about it it
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was a BOS blink who is created of webm
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he was inspired by shave Nora on our
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conference and he decided to show webm
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Mo like shaveer did uh by going through
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the through the webm step by step and he
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did it for us and after that he was a
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speaker on the Euro conference where
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there was was 700 people and other other
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example Ros from Super Channel he come
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to us on the first Meetup and he asked
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to be a speaker on the second one and it
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was his first presentation offline and
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immediately on this Meetup he was
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invited to be a speaker on the Ros is a
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old old conference in in VW Poland is a
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senior level conference and he was there
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a speaker and after that he was invited
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to a speaker on the rails world I
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believe that he don't have a problem to
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find a job and it's also important part
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if you show up if you show your
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expertise if you are if you are uh
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capable to do that it's also really
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really important and it's not only about
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speaking it's there are also stories
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from my hood how people started their
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own uh company for
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example but our second filler of the
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Ruby Europe is because how to sustain
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the the community without new Ruby folks
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without Juniors we need this fresh blood
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like a vampires so we decided to also
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help with
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that and we have some ideas for example
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help rails girls to run their workshops
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again because in 2029 there was
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49 49 workshops worldwi wi in 2023 there
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was 12 of them and this year there was
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only six of them so we want to help them
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find teachers help them find
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sponsors and to run those workshops
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again we also would like to prepare an
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online course in visuality we we created
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a visuality Academia and there it was
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7th month uh online boot camp it's it
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was with up and down of course but at
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the last stage there was nine people who
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was really really great and we couldn't
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hire all of them but we hired some of
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them and two of
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them created a workshops on our last
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conference one of the workshops was
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about Kamal and the second one was about
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Hotwire so the news in Ruby on Rails and
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I'm really proud of it and I believe
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that we can we can bring new other Ruby
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developers into the market we can create
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a mentorship program or we can help to
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those which are already there and we
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need to connect existing boot camps with
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existing communities because when I was
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in the Leon office in Amsterdam
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the the group lead don't even know that
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there is an active Community there
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and we have to connect we we need to
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those people need to know that there is
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an active Community after that that they
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have to show up after this boot camp and
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they have a place to to learn and in a
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reverse we need to help these boot camps
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because they are also uh most of the
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boot camps are already switched to
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python or other Technologies and we have
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to support those which still learning
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Ruby and our plan as for Ruby Europe for
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2024 was was my in my opinion wild and
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we achieve all of them in all in two
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months so it's already a
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success we last week we run Spain
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triangle project which was the series of
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meetups in in Spain we visited freshly
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activated Barcelona RB but we also
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activated Valencia and Madrid and in on
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each Meetup there was 45 plus people and
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we connect all those organizers speakers
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there to to exchange speakers exchange
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sponsors and help each other and I
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believe we have to do it every to to
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help those communities be
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active and I'm the type of guy who is
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traveling and checking if there is a
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meet up there so I was in the New York
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City after the rails World in Toronto
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and I reach out to existing Community
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there New York City RB and we run the
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Meetup uh with New York City RB Europe
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and New York City on the rails and it
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was huge people really like it and they
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show up it was their first meet up
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offline because they are doing that
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online and people was really really
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happy and people ask me why Ruby Europe
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in h in US market why you are here and
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because we are doing we are in the we
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have the same Mission it's not that it's
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only European Mission we have we we can
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work everywhere and it's even bring some
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new ideas and some who's here he brought
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the idea he was so happy that there is
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an offline Meetup that he decided to try
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to push all those old organizer or maybe
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create new to run the meetups in
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Washington Philadelphia Boston and New
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York and exchange speakers
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there so we also created Ruby Europe
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site we have a Discord with 500 uh users
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after two months so I believe that it's
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it's huge and we run Ruby plus area meet
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up in warso and we are planning to do it
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in uh in other cities next will be
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Berlin and then we will see I believe
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that it's also important mission to show
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to show that Ruby plus AI is already
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valid option and it's not only python
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there and unite the unit is the idea to
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to gather all
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speakers open source contributors
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attendees people Ruby friends in general
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companies in one place I'm not sure that
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it's it's already done but it's constant
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work and do you remember the the list of
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the Cities which uh which was which had
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euru and it's already more of them of
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course not all of them are thanks to R
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Europe but Vienna Vienna showed up
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Budapest also planning the the next
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Meetup and we try to connect them with
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each other to exchange speakers and kco
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kco have third or fourth Meetup in a row
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already I am so happy with that so who
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is in the
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team I me
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you so everybody can help so it's not
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that you have to join our forces and
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spend your free time on that but you can
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help us by attending by speaking by by
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reposting by joining our Discord and be
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there support the community so action
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points is are the organized and join
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local meetups and spread the word visit
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our website is a QR code here and I will
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be happy to hear your feedback and ideas
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and you can reach me every time on on
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LinkedIn I will be happy to to to help
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with your ideas and join our Discord or
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subscribe our newsletter there is no
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newslet letter yet but you can subscribe
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it and here is a Discord uh QR code the
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second uh QR code are not that important
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but join our Discord and I have a quite
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easy Mission currently because I'm
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talking to you the people who are really
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active in the committee who are here in
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the on the conference and you would like
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to be here you you have you know this
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value of getting this knowledge and
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talking to people so I have now request
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for for you to try to convince those who
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are not that close to try to at least
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find one friends and invite him to the
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to the Meetup to the conference or join
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our Discord or at least share knowledge
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inside your companies often starts from
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there to to exchange this knowledge
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please do that because then next year
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Ruby com will be probably two 200 more
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people or even more thank you
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yeah so the question is is the meetups
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change between for example 2016 to to
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current meetups so in general I believe
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that those meetups are kind of the same
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they are doing the same but I see really
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difference between cultures and
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different countries so when we did that
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in Spain they was like H it's enough to
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have one presentation and networking we
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finishing our work really late so start
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from 7 and in in Wars we have for
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example two or three presentation we
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starting at 6 and we sitting to late
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night and it's also working for us so
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there are some some difference yes where
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to find Meetup currently so yeah the
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Meetup come kind of dying but it's still
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a lot of meetups there there is
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Luma which is a really good tool in
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general but when you visit for example
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when I visited New York City and try to
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find a Meetup and I even know that it's
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on Luma I couldn't find it uh so It's
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Tricky so maybe it's the reason why we
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created R website to to put it on the on
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the on the map and there is a link for
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each Meetup to
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to to direct to their page and I think
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it's a good idea also to to have this
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map to the hold world not only to
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European one how to find venue for the
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Meetup tips uh so in general there
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is often it's working like that that
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there are companies which which have
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ruia or there run on Ruby or rails and
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they are happy to to host the meet up
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often so reaching those is really
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promising because you already have some
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people who are doing kruby and they can
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spread word around so it's it's really
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really cool idea and all in general
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pointing those companies which are there
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there is even site created by Andy C I
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don't remember the name of the site but
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it's it's site with all companies which
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using Ruby on Rails maybe not all but a
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lot of them and you can find them in
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your city and thanks to that you have
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the LinkedIn with the company and you
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can reach them it's it's one one
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approach and the second approach is for
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example it's often a
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easy to find a co-working space which
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which is happy to share the space for
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free for their need also and promotion
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advice for starting in a
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video yeah so it's not a it's quite open
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question so there is a lot of things so
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venue is one thing so then you probably
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have to try to reach out and spread the
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word and talk to people is it is it
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valid if they will come and they're
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interested and to poke them also to to
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share this idea with with other other
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people and find the speaker or make the
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the the presentation by
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yourself in in on our or meetups it was
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at the beginning it was hard because as
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a visuality we run 10 presentation in
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first year and we have always two of
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them or three of them ever meet up and
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now we don't have a problem problem with
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that so Community grow and people are
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happy to talk but at the beginning it
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might might be difficult so so yeah so
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may try to try to find people try to
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find support of your company if if it's
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in located in your city and maybe reach
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out the people from new cities to to get
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them also and to find sponsor find
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sponsors or speakers there okay if not
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thank you I have a stickers if would
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like and I have a sweets from Poland if
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you would like to try so you're welcome
