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Game Show and Closing Remarks

Spike Ilacqua and Bekki Freeman • October 08, 2024 • Boulder, CO

The video titled "Game Show and Closing Remarks" features Spike Ilacqua and Bekki Freeman at the Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024 conference. The main theme revolves around a light-hearted game show segment followed by closing remarks thanking sponsors, speakers, and the community for their participation.

Key points discussed during the video include:
- Game Show Segment: The session included a humorous quiz format where participants answered questions related to programming, particularly Ruby and JavaScript, with opportunities to win prizes.

- Examples of questions posed included topics such as the influences on Ruby development, Ruby methods, and humorous tech jokes about developers. For instance, a joke highlighted the contrast between a Ruby developer and a JavaScript developer regarding their order at a bar and the issues surrounding dependencies.

- Acknowledgment of Sponsors: Spike and Bekki expressed gratitude towards the sponsors, emphasizing their role in supporting the conference. They mentioned that sponsorship helps in managing event costs more efficiently. They encouraged attendees to support the sponsoring companies who are integral to the community.

- Recognition of Speakers and Volunteers: The speakers and volunteers were invited on stage to be recognized for their efforts in making the conference a success. The speakers were noted as crucial to the conference's educational value, and the volunteers were acknowledged for their behind-the-scenes work.

- Community Engagement: The importance of community was highlighted, noting various local groups and meet-ups available for attendees to connect and grow. These included the Boulder Ruby Group and a 'Code and Coffee' meetup aimed at encouraging local programmers to network and share knowledge.
- Future Connections: The hosts urged attendees to engage with local tech communities, as well as promoting continued opportunities for connection post-conference through platforms like Slack and local events.

- Concluding Remarks: The presentation concluded with a summary of gratitude towards all participants, an upbeat call for future engagement, and a promise to organize similar events in the following year. This emphasized the collaborative spirit within the Ruby community and the shared enthusiasm for technology and programming.

Game Show and Closing Remarks
Spike Ilacqua and Bekki Freeman • October 08, 2024 • Boulder, CO

Game Show and Closing Remarks with Spike Ilacqua and Bekki Freeman

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024

00:00:13.639 all right so I heard a
00:00:16.880 rumor uh that y'all love chat GPT
00:00:22.199 jokes in fact so you don't have to read
00:00:24.279 all this code uh it's just some crap
00:00:26.000 someone put together this is the
00:00:27.880 important part why why did the chicken
00:00:30.880 cross the
00:00:33.800 road thank you Matthew for parsing that
00:00:36.800 in the most strange way
00:00:41.719 possible all right so we um we wanted to
00:00:44.840 make sure the lightning talks got um all
00:00:47.320 the the breathing room because a lot of
00:00:49.320 people were doing their first talk and
00:00:50.440 that was super exciting so we are just
00:00:52.680 going to do a very very abbreviated game
00:00:55.640 show and then we're going to wrap up and
00:00:57.359 y'all can go home sound all right okay
00:01:01.199 all
00:01:02.519 right um okay so the way we're going to
00:01:05.119 do this
00:01:07.439 is uh if you know the answer you're G to
00:01:09.759 raise your hand and we're g to try to
00:01:11.320 find the first person who raises their
00:01:12.759 hand and the person who gets the right
00:01:14.880 answer is going to get a little
00:01:16.960 prize pretty
00:01:20.360 simple
00:01:22.560 Yes 42
00:01:28.479 sorry oh we got turn that one on yeah
00:01:31.240 all right there we go okay all right
00:01:34.079 yall
00:01:35.240 ready two
00:01:40.560 z uh I saw I saw you first
00:01:44.159 cig full
00:01:48.439 name all right here we'll help you out
00:02:02.240 I think we give it to him all
00:02:05.119 right all right so just uh choose
00:02:08.000 something
00:02:09.039 random I was Craig right there yes all
00:02:13.319 right so yes so the answer was you could
00:02:16.280 hear
00:02:17.160 Matsumoto all right you ready for the
00:02:19.000 next one all right this side I want to
00:02:20.760 see you like on your
00:02:25.840 game all right which of the following
00:02:28.239 languages did not heavily influence Ruby
00:02:34.280 development
00:02:38.640 Lauren nice
00:02:43.360 job all right so joke
00:02:47.159 break I did not authorize
00:02:51.319 this all right all right let's
00:02:55.280 see what is the objectoriented way to
00:02:59.519 become wealthy in PHP
00:03:03.120 Ruby that's not bad any other
00:03:07.920 guesses
00:03:14.840 inheritance all right she backs herself
00:03:17.200 up the baby thinks I'm funny oh goodness
00:03:20.720 or chat GPT is funny all right I said
00:03:23.200 I'm not creative so all right next up
00:03:26.360 the web framework which of the following
00:03:29.040 um is an actual JavaScript framework I
00:03:30.640 saw a hand way back there Joel yes
00:03:38.920 option now you have to answer all
00:03:42.480 right uh C quicker um
00:03:46.280 no Astro Astro yes do you know what
00:03:49.319 Astro is for bonus points JavaScript Jam
00:03:53.319 framework generator just a
00:03:57.560 jaas yeah it that's right it's a um
00:04:00.439 framework for Content driven websites it
00:04:04.079 apparently thank you Powers um the
00:04:06.879 world's fastest marketing sites blogs
00:04:08.760 and e-commerce websites who knew they
00:04:11.239 did they
00:04:13.920 did all right thank you okay in Ruby
00:04:19.840 what does the spaceship okay
00:04:27.280 Jeremy nice
00:04:30.759 all right how are we doing on time oh
00:04:32.440 you all are fast this is great
00:04:35.560 okay which of the following is a ruby
00:04:38.720 method that permanently modifies the
00:04:41.000 object is called so wait hold on you can
00:04:43.360 only answer this if you have been doing
00:04:45.080 Ruby for less than one
00:04:47.440 year all right ready I hope hopefully
00:04:49.919 there's some of you in
00:04:51.680 here all right here are your
00:04:54.240 options all
00:04:56.759 right hey hey
00:05:01.240 yes
00:05:03.440 congratulations stop yelling at me ah
00:05:07.479 capitalize all
00:05:11.680 right all right I have one more joke
00:05:21.240 break okay okay a ruby developer and a
00:05:25.560 JavaScript developer walk into a
00:05:28.080 bar the Ruby developer orders an
00:05:31.680 old-fashioned and the bartender makes it
00:05:33.880 right away the JavaScript developer
00:05:36.880 orders a moito and the bartender says
00:05:39.919 hold on I need to install 300
00:05:42.440 dependencies
00:05:45.840 First all
00:05:48.360 right all right thank you for indulging
00:05:50.479 me in my chat
00:05:51.919 GPT okay so let's wrap up all
00:05:55.479 right
00:05:57.840 um oh I got more
00:06:01.000 but for the sake of
00:06:02.720 time let's do
00:06:06.120 this thank you to our sponsor go ahead
00:06:08.479 Spike yes thank you to our sponsors this
00:06:11.639 putting on a a conference like this is
00:06:13.680 watching the the costs and the um income
00:06:18.919 try to
00:06:20.520 intersect and staying up at night making
00:06:22.840 graphs and charts so it makes it much
00:06:25.240 easier when uh the sponsors give us a
00:06:28.560 boost and uh move that line faster we
00:06:31.520 really couldn't do this without them and
00:06:33.160 we truly appreciate them so thank
00:06:39.639 you these are
00:06:41.680 all as we said earlier these are all
00:06:44.160 people who either came to or spoke at um
00:06:47.400 previous Rocky Mountain Ruby so it's
00:06:49.720 it's just wonderful to see them back
00:06:51.960 here again please patronize them they
00:06:54.080 all do great work um speakers and
00:06:57.800 volunteers could all the speakers and
00:06:59.199 volunte who are here come on up on the
00:07:01.000 stage and take a bow yes we love
00:07:04.240 please I know you thought you were done
00:07:07.560 like oh but I'm so sore from all the
00:07:12.680 sitting so I want to take a second to
00:07:14.720 talk about Community while people are
00:07:16.160 coming up here I guess I G to stay let's
00:07:18.720 put this down so so you have to be a
00:07:21.800 little crazy to put on a
00:07:23.680 conference it's hard and but it's not
00:07:27.199 difficult I like to describe it that way
00:07:28.440 there's just a lot of work to do do but
00:07:30.160 at the end of the day it's a Trello
00:07:32.280 board and but I could not do it all by
00:07:35.800 myself Becky and I could not do it all
00:07:37.720 by ourselves it's the volunteers who
00:07:42.000 just can take a task and run with it and
00:07:44.520 get stuff done for us so we can worry
00:07:47.039 about the next thing that make this
00:07:48.840 happen so please give them a big round
00:07:50.440 of applause
00:08:01.560 and then there's the speakers without
00:08:02.840 the speakers I'm going to make the same
00:08:04.639 bad joke I made last year which is it's
00:08:06.440 just me telling dad jokes for two days
00:08:08.879 and I only know one dad joke and it's
00:08:11.000 worse than
00:08:12.759 her why can't you hear a pterodactyl go
00:08:15.479 to the
00:08:16.360 bathroom because the p is silent there
00:08:19.360 you
00:08:20.159 go thank you I'll be here all
00:08:26.039 day yes please
00:08:28.120 do so all these speakers and their hard
00:08:31.199 work is what makes this conference
00:08:34.000 happen and then it's all of you if
00:08:35.599 nobody shows up nothing happens so thank
00:08:38.839 you all for coming and thank you for
00:08:41.000 being a great
00:08:46.959 community and for Community couple
00:08:49.160 things for the locals um there is a
00:08:51.920 slack group that Ryland runs called Tech
00:08:54.120 friends if you go to De Tech friends.com
00:08:56.480 you can connect with not just rubius but
00:08:58.560 other technologists around get get Tech
00:09:02.040 friends lwk there's a link in the
00:09:04.640 networking channel um we have the
00:09:07.920 boulder Ruby Group which meets um every
00:09:10.519 second week except this month because
00:09:12.920 we're all done after this every second
00:09:15.839 Wednesday so but it's not this month
00:09:18.079 it's going to be the third Wednesday so
00:09:19.480 that we can all like Get over from our
00:09:21.640 hangovers um and finally there's code
00:09:23.959 and coffee which you can also find if
00:09:25.920 you join Tech friends and I'll throw it
00:09:27.360 in the slack tonight this is a Wednesday
00:09:29.640 morning every week Meetup where we just
00:09:31.959 go hang out
00:09:33.240 and get out of our houses and see some
00:09:35.519 other programmers so all those things
00:09:37.360 are available to you if you're in this
00:09:38.560 local community and if you're not you
00:09:40.079 should start some in yours yes and
00:09:41.760 anyone who's going to be here tomorrow
00:09:43.480 where's our code and copy tomorrow
00:09:45.040 tomorrow's code and coffee is at 8:30
00:09:47.200 a.m. at the rayback Google it it's a
00:09:49.360 food truck Park they've got coffee
00:09:50.959 they've got food trucks for lunch and
00:09:52.720 they've got
00:09:55.480 beer what did we miss um I don't think
00:09:59.440 we miss in well then thank you all it's
00:10:01.880 been great to have you here and uh we'll
00:10:03.640 do this again next
00:10:05.160 year we will somewh
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