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RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Cloud 66 for Rails acts like your in-house DevOps team to build, deploy and maintain your Rails applications on any cloud or server. Get $100 Cloud 66 Free Credits with the code: RailsConf-19 ($100 Cloud 66 Free Credits, for the new user only, valid till 31st December 2019) Link to the website: https://cloud66.com/rails?utm_source=-&utm_medium=-&utm_campaign=RailsConf19 Link to sign up: https://app.cloud66.com/users/sign_in?utm_source=-&utm_medium=-&utm_campaign=RailsConf19 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ #railsconf #confreaks
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In the opening keynote of RailsConf 2019, David Heinemeier Hansson addresses the evolution of the tech community, emphasizing the importance of fresh perspectives brought by newcomers. He reflects on his early experiences and the genesis of Ruby on Rails, underscoring the balance between ignorance and knowledge in software development. Hansson advocates for a mindset shift away from viewing open-source contributions as transactional, emphasizing intrinsic motivations such as autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Key points discussed include: - **The Growth of the Community**: There is a healthy influx of new individuals in the programming community, suggesting the industry is evolving positively. - **Ignorance as Power**: Hansson discusses how naivety allows for innovative thinking, while also recognizing the pitfalls of ignorance that new entrants may encounter, leading to repeating the mistakes of the past. - **Reading as a Different Approach**: This year, Hansson opts to read his talk, inspired by prior presentations and the benefit of considered communication. - **Open-Source Dynamics**: He critiques the prevailing view of open-source development as reliant on a sense of debt or transactions. Hansson asserts that the belief in scarcity within software contributions is flawed and harmful. - **Purpose and Meaning in Work**: Drawing from psychology, he explores how a loss of purpose correlates with dissatisfaction in the tech industry, and emphasizes the importance of both self-actualization and self-transcendence. - **The MIT License**: Hansson portrays the MIT license as a paradigm of altruism, contrasting it against the more restrictive GPL, which he believes fosters a culture of fear and obligation. - **Personal Responsibility for Meaning**: Encouraging developers to find personal truths and purpose, he advocates for a jubilee, a release from obligations, urging contributors to engage with the community out of joy rather than duty. In conclusion, Hansson calls for a celebration of open-source contributions without the burden of transactional expectations. He urges the audience to foster genuine collaboration driven by intrinsic motivation, thus cultivating a more meaningful and expansive community.
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