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we're going to go over the Ruby hero
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Awards tonight I've got Nathaniel bi
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here to be my Vanna White for the
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evening right uh we've got three
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different parts first we're going to do
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the Ruby hero Awards um then I've got my
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announcement you know I got to do my but
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just one more thing sort of thing um and
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then talk a little bit about validation
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and recognition but like uh Chad said
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this is the fourth year we've been doing
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the Ruby hero Awards and as you can see
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some of the people here up on the screen
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that have received Awards in the past
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couple years and what's really
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interesting is that you look at some of
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these people here and some of them you
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go oh they're really welln why did they
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win an award but really when they won
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the award they weren't that well known
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and now a lot of these people have gone
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on and everybody knows their
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name so the Ruby hero Awards was sort of
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put together you know I was doing this
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podcast and realized there was some
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people that didn't get as much
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recognition as they might deserve um
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people who you know went above and
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beyond who you know were working
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tirelessly in their spare time not
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getting much thanks people who weren't
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very wellknown or not wellknown enough
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um people who deserved a little extra
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recognition that they weren't getting
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otherwise so we decided to put the Ruby
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hero Awards together and here's how it
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works in case you're not familiar we put
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put out this website called Ruby Heroes
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Ruby heroes.com and we put out a call to
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people to nominate people they think
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deserve an award so anybody can go on
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there put who they want in there and
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they have to give a description so they
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have to type in two or three sentences
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of why they think they deserve a reward
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um this year we got
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465
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nominations pretty good um but we don't
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want to this to turn into a popularity
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contest that's the last thing we want
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this to turn into so what's worked every
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year is then we take who the public
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votes for we bring it back to the
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previous year's Ruby Heroes and we let
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them of duke it out right and make an
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intelligent decision come to an
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unanimous decision of who which six
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should get these Awards which you can
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see here um if they all arrived there
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should actually be um oops I click
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through there should actually be six
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Award winners five of them should
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actually be here tonight one of them
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couldn't make it but five of them should
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be sitting here amongst us this evening
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before we get into it um I want to take
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a moment to thank l r for sponsor
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sporing the awards and having this
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awesome event um let's give just a small
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hand for
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O'Reilly cool um if I call your name and
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you're a hero please come up here we'll
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give you an award and sort of stand up
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here then once everybody gets up here
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we'll do the group shot so I'm going to
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start with a guy who's not here today um
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so the guy who's not here today worked
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on ruby summer of code specifically the
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simp simpler Ruby deployment project
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where he got him an opportunity to work
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with Wayne Seguin on rvm he did a bunch
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of stuff with rvm supporting it helping
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build it all all this stuff you see
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listed on the screen and eventually
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helping release rvm
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1.0 he's also an active uh in this Youth
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Organization called youth tree who
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donates his time for developing websites
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uh um to this local organization whose
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mission is to use creativity and fun to
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involve young people in
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volunteering and all of a sudden we're
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grooving all right okay okay we've got
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uh he joins the uh helps support the
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rubyan rails uh local groups in his area
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he's also one of the organizes
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organizers of the Rails Rumble the
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person I'm talking about if you haven't
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figured it out yet is Darcy Lok let's
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have a round of applause for him
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hopefully he's watching live at home um
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cool the next guy the next hero wrote a
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bunch of Open Source projects you might
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be familiar with if you're actually a a
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coffee script early adopter this first
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project you might have used it's called
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beastro car anybody woo anybody out
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there yeah okay yeah feel free to to
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show your appreciation with your voices
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um the next one was liability which is
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an asset packaging library for rack
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applications the third one is Evergreen
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to run JavaScript unit test inside
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JavaScript the fourth one is Carrier
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wave a simple and extremely flexible way
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to upload files in your Ruby
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applications this is not the Ruby
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hero but does anybody know what this is
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right so he's the guy behind Kappy Bara
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the person I'm talking about of course
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is Jonas
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Nicholas all
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right the next two Heroes both revolve
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their work around documentation one
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who's written a lot of documentation and
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one who wrote a tool to create better
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documentation um some of these uh Heroes
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I'm actually going to show you on the
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screen what people wrote when they wrote
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in to nominate them because I think some
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of them are really powerful so for this
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guy here's uh here's what somebody wrote
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about him up here this dude has helped
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me on at least 15 different occasions
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with odd syntax questions or general
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advice on IRC and he doesn't even know
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who I am he deserves a godam damn
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metal this dude okay the next one his
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tireless dedication to making
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documentation not suck is commendable
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this next line I'm not making it up he
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also he's a
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dude it's a pattern apparently um I
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checked this guy's score on stack
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Overflow I think this is pretty
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impressive
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right so he's like helping people out
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every day um if you look on Real's
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contributors he's about here he's number
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12 above Rick Olsen jamus Buck Michael
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karski and most of the commits you look
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at that he's done all revolve on adding
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documentation to rails he's done a ton
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of work on the rails guides he's even
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written to brand new rails guides which
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aren't small you've got the rails
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initialization process active record
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query interface he even put out on his
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blog uh asking for donation so he can do
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more documentation for rails he's
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hardcore he's also working on um a book
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with Yuda cats um on Rails 3 in action
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and I even like have heard from people
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who have bought the pre-release version
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and have been like interacting with him
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and he's been revising the book and
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taking feedback I was like that's that's
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killer he's also a big supporter of
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reals Camp the person I'm talking about
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is Ryan big
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okay the next guy is I mentioned also
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nominated because of what he's done for
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documentation but it's not so much about
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writing documentation but more about how
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easy he's made it to write good
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documentation and to make it available
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how many people here are familiar with
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yard
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lots of people all right very cool um
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here is something that someone wrote
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when they nominated this
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person yard is yeah I'll let you guys
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read it I actually do it that says
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something right there um so yard led to
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another project which I'm also curious
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to see how many people use called Ruby
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do.
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info yeah great stuff the person I'm
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talking about of course
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is Lauren
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seel all right so a lot of you know
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hopefully everybody knows here I know
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there's a lot of new people in the
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community about why the lucky stiff and
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about some of the projects that he's put
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forward and the next hero that we're
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bringing out has sort of picked up on
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some of these projects out there
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um he sort of helped uh maintain and
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keep up to date and improve the shoes
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Library he picked up and he helps
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maintain hacky hack he also helped put
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out version 1.0 of hacky hack and if you
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haven't tried out hacky hack I strongly
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recommend you take the time to do it
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just to play around with it because if
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you do the next time you have that
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friend or that friend's son or even your
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son that says you know what is Daddy
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doing at work every day you're going to
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want to point him at hacky hack you're
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going to end up pointing him at hacky
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hack because it's a great way for people
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to learn programming and have fun follow
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a tutorial um definitely recommend it
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this person also is a contributor to our
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status which is an open- Source sort of
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status website kind of like Twitter he's
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also contributor to the Timeless
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repository um an online blog he's
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contributed lots of great articles he's
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a contributor to the change log
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podcast and he is also a big contributor
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to the Ruby mendicant University which
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I've been really impressed with over the
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past two years that it's been going on
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with all those um educating new Ruby
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developers and contributing to open
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source the person I'm talking about is
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Steve
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kabnick
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agress all right so we've got one more
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person if you're keeping count here um
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this next guy I didn't know this till I
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did some research on him he's got a PhD
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in theoretical physics it's like o he
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even wrote some papers I'll let you guys
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read these uh these titles these are out
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there makes you want to go and read them
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but I'm like wow um and so once I found
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this out about him it made perfect sense
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that his first big rails book that he
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put out a couple years ago was rail
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space I like oh railpace right makes
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sense railpace so if you've if you've
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been in rails for a while there's
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probably at least a few people in this
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room here that got inspired to learn
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rails from railpace it actually
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supported I think it was rails
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1.2.3 the book was written for um but
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every year we've done Ruby
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Heroes if you take out the people who
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already won awards he's probably got the
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most nominations from anybody just
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because so many people are grateful for
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the work that he's done I went back and
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grabbed one of the nominations from like
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the first year that he got nominated
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from somebody who was inspired by this
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book um so here's what you know somebody
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said about him it's pretty
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awesome right and I was hearing about
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this in the community people were like
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yeah I read this book I'm doing it and
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I'm part of this community and the
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author is helping and everyone's helping
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each other and I just heard nothing but
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great things um after railpace came an
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application called inosi which was which
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I served as a great example of a rails
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app I used to tell people to go look at
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inosi if they wanted to read some good
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rails
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code and then
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he started a new project um in April
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2009 he started it by writing this into
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a a rail's mailing list he writed he
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wrote this you know I'm working on a new
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idea for rail's tutorial book hoping to
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get some feedback from this list he
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wanted to make sure people were cool
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with his
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idea and he was going through with it
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and he wanted to make it sort of uh
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Creative Commons make at least you know
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as much of the book hopefully the whole
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book Creative Commons and then he got a
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offer from a big book publisher that
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said hey you know
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um we want you want to publish your book
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but you know I think what it sounds like
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they did I hope he doesn't mind that I'm
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giving away all this stuff happen but I
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think it's it shows his character so he
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got offered you know a good deal from a
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book publisher but they wanted almost
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50% of it not to be released for free
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and so he emailed sort of me and a
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couple other people and he said is this
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okay you know I want you know the people
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who I respect to really endorse the book
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um and I and I but is this so is this
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cool and my response to was you know I
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can't really say one way or the other
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actions speak louder than words sort of
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use your use your best judgment do
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whatever you can just do it um and what
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he ended up doing he wrote another email
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to us and he said Bas basically I
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decided not to do the book deal I'm
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going to turn it down so that I can
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release this 100% for
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free um and I just wanted to I I just
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want to share that because you know that
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one action shows me you know that that
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makes me look at him as sort of a ruby
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hero in my heart I think that was killer
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and I think it really worked out in the
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end because the rails Community got an
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awesome free online tutorial book out of
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it so that's the Ruby un rails tutorial
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some of the stuff that people have
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written about that are just um amazing
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um if you take a look here's a couple
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examples of
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that
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right yeah I mean it's really amazing
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when you see the sort of feedback um and
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of course the person I'm talking about
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let's give him a big round of applause
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is Michael
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harle you got
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it all
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right so let's give one more round of
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applause to your 2011 Ruby Heroes
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got congratulations
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guys so but just one more thing no just
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kidding um so I wanna I want to talk a
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little bit about um screencasting
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because I think um our community has
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always been rich in lots of screencasts
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I mean it all started out with with that
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one all I have to say is whoops and
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everybody knows what I'm talking about
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um that one screencast David Hein Hansen
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created and since then the community has
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sort of blossomed all these
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screencasterz cast you've got um the
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prag pragmatic Studio you know put out
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the screencast they got a bunch of great
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screencast con freaks you might not
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think of them as screencasting but like
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all of these like uh talks that have
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happened at all these conferences would
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have been completely lost if they
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wouldn't have put out a model that would
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allow conference organizers to record
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them in an affordable way um also like
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thinko TV you've got Tech Pub did some
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you've got the SD Ruby group put out
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this podcast they've been doing forever
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I think goes back to like 2006 they've
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been putting out videos of their talks
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um teach me to code um Charles maxwood
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has been doing some killer work over
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there with screencasting putting out so
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much work for free um you've got Remy
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he's been doing some cool stuff with
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screencasting you've got bdd casts our
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community really is awesome at this um
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screencast.com their blog um you know
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anybody from like Fabio aita um has put
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out like tons of these you know free
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screencasts played around with it engine
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yard has been putting out lots of free
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screencasts as well I don't write much
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open source software I've got a lot of
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of people that work with me at mvy Labs
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that are a lot smarter than me that
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produce open source software probably
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most people in this audience are smarter
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than me when it comes to writing code
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but what I really enjoy is educating
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people and putting together educational
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material that teaches people how to
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write better code that that makes me
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feel good to put it out there um and
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last year when I was up on stage for the
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Ruby hero Awards I announced these uh
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rails 3 screencasts I think I checked
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before we got up there and each one of
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these screencasts was probably viewed I
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think about 15,000 times I'm just so in
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awe of that that's so ridiculous to me
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um but you know it feels really good to
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to to contribute and to see that um and
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uh when I put these out actually when I
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was in the the speakers Lounge right
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before I was putting these out I was
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having a conversation with David hinm
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Hansen showing them showing him these
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screencast which I really wanted to put
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out I didn't really ask permission to do
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everything that I was doing so I was
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like I really hope he likes it really
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hope that this is cool and sort of you
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know making some assumptions um and I
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showed it to him and uh he thought it
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was cool but his first reaction or his
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second reaction was um we really need
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more introductory content I didn't
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realize at the time what I was creating
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was more for intermediate rails
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developers to go from rails 2 to rails
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three not really for new people um and
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he made a really good point if we want
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to keep this community strong we need to
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be continuously creating new educational
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material especially with how fast rails
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is moving we have to keep on doing it um
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so in response resp to that I was like
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okay what can I do what can we build um
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and so that what we did in November of
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last year was kind of response to that
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which is rails for
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zombies we put out this free uh website
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where people can learn rails and I think
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uh we checked stats on that um 42,000
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people have signed
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up over nine almost 9,000 people have
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finished the corpse the
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course but uh I think just it's just
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amazing um that sort of has evolved into
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something bigger um rails for zombies we
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we were like wow that's awesome we need
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to do more of this sort of Interactive
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Learning material and that's sort of
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where code School evolved at that a lot
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of us that we're working on right now um
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producing more educational content we
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did rails best practices which again is
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for more intermediate rails developers
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to learn more program in the browser and
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learn and become better rails developers
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um but I've been thinking more lately
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you know I'm only one guy you know it's
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like we're only one team um how do we
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get more people creating this new medium
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of screencasting which I think is only
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going to get more popular and more and
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more developers are going to learn that
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way H how can I take that knowledge and
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spread it and get more of you guys
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screencasting right and what keeps
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people from not doing it I talked to a
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couple people at the conference while I
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was here like what what keeps you from
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from throwing together screencast have
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you ever thought about that and most of
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them have right most of say yeah I've
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thought about it but I wouldn't know
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where to start I wouldn't know what
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tools to use how to use them um you know
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so I so I've been wanting to but I
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didn't want to but I I didn't have the
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time or something like that um
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so I started thinking to myself what if
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there was a framework what if just like
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um David hmer Hansen created rails as a
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framework forting websites what if I
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could create a framework that sort of
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took all the knowledge that I have and
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made it as easy as I know how to create
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really good screencast
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what would that look like how could I
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teach people to do that and so the one
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thing I wanted to sort of announce today
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um I spent the last two weeks working my
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ass off on this um is creating some
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documentation and a video that we're
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putting out for
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free to teach people how to screencast
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we're calling it The Code School
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screencasting
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framework and if you ever want to really
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learn how to do it um this is sort of
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everything that I've learned about how
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to do it well in a you know an hour
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screencast and I've got a big document
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that I put together that shows how to do
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this so that more people can create
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screencasts and we can keep this
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community strong and
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growing you know and that's
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just thanks really appreciate that um so
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that's the code School screencasting
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framework it's kind of an experiment to
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see sort of you know what we can do I
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you know appreciate the uh guys in M
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Labs tolerating this experiment to see
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if we can get more people doing
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screencasting definitely check it out so
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I want to get back to more the Ruby
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Heroes theme so validation appreci
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appreciation right some people come to
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conferences and get it to get it some
00:21:13.679
people speak to get these things and
00:21:16.000
people contribute to open source
00:21:17.279
projects everybody needs it a lot of
00:21:20.240
people need it to keep on doing what
00:21:21.440
they're doing especially if they're not
00:21:22.960
getting paid for they're doing it in
00:21:24.159
their spare time right so the Ruby hero
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Awards that's just one way that we you
00:21:28.240
know hopefully all those guys that we
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brought up on stage tonight will keep on
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doing what they're doing and you know
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for a long time forward to keep our
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community
00:21:36.600
strong um
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but what more can we do I was trying to
00:21:42.520
think what can what can you do to do
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your part obviously you can keep on
00:21:46.240
contributing keep on doing what you're
00:21:47.600
doing but I was starting to think what
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can you do like even now what could you
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do at this conference to show your
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appreciation and contribute back to our
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community well if if if you're one of
00:21:58.919
these guys one of these speakers or one
00:22:00.799
of these L what I would consider
00:22:02.720
luminaries sitting in the front row over
00:22:04.559
here you know where you are for example
00:22:07.200
these guys you know you could make
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yourself more accessible right it's like
00:22:12.039
if I was David he Hansen I would go
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through and I would make it my mission
00:22:16.480
to meet every single person in this
00:22:18.480
conference there's a challenge right
00:22:20.840
shake their hand and just get to know
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them because I know it probably make
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some of those people's you know whole
00:22:26.960
sort of travel here worthwhile right one
00:22:29.320
guy who does this one guy who totally
00:22:31.200
does this is Gary vanderchuck who was
00:22:33.159
here last year if some of you guys were
00:22:34.480
here um did a killer talk but I saw him
00:22:36.600
at a conference one day he was a keynote
00:22:38.279
speaker at that conference he went to
00:22:39.679
the Afterparty I swear to God he was
00:22:41.919
going going around every single person
00:22:43.760
in that Afterparty and just saying hey
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how's it going what are you working on
00:22:47.520
we all have one thing in common here for
00:22:49.159
rails we got you know we've got rails in
00:22:50.960
common right it's the easiest Icebreaker
00:22:52.880
ever so what are you doing with rails
00:22:55.600
right easiest thing ever if you want to
00:22:58.120
show your appreciation for speakers or
00:23:00.200
you see a really good talk really easy
00:23:02.480
way to show your appreciation you don't
00:23:03.799
have to approach anybody rate the talk
00:23:06.080
go on and rate the talk every time you
00:23:07.480
rate the talk really the speakers go
00:23:09.200
back and they read this stuff um so if
00:23:11.400
you see something that inspires you
00:23:12.559
please take the time go back rate the
00:23:14.679
talk another way that I've sort of said
00:23:16.760
every year I've done the Ruby hero
00:23:17.760
Awards up here that I've said you know
00:23:19.120
told people to do is make it your
00:23:20.840
mission to thank at least three people
00:23:22.159
while you're here at the conference
00:23:23.919
because no matter how much recognition
00:23:25.559
or appreciation you think that somebody
00:23:27.480
gets for the contribution they do it's
00:23:29.919
probably a lot less than you think right
00:23:32.559
it's lonely you know it's when you go
00:23:34.360
back you know people work in you know
00:23:36.559
dark places when they go home without
00:23:38.279
too many people right or even the people
00:23:39.840
they know know what they do so they
00:23:40.919
don't get that much feedback like great
00:23:42.640
job with that open source project so if
00:23:44.640
somebody did an open source project
00:23:45.919
which helped you in your job or helped
00:23:48.559
you in your spare time on a project
00:23:50.720
please take the time while you're here
00:23:52.720
go up to them and say thank you for
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doing what you did or for you know
00:23:57.120
creating rails or creating yard hard you
00:23:59.039
know just thank you for doing that it's
00:24:00.279
really sort of you know helped me with
00:24:01.919
this one project and then meet
00:24:06.200
them um yeah so thank three people or if
00:24:09.840
they did a good talk or if they did
00:24:11.120
something nice thank three people it'll
00:24:13.559
really make the difference it'll make
00:24:14.799
this whole convention sort of uh
00:24:16.159
worthwhile Drive our community forward
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increase that positive
00:24:23.960
energy
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thanks thank
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um lastly another way that I like to
00:24:32.360
give people recognition um me and
00:24:34.120
Nathaniel and a couple of guys at MV
00:24:35.840
labs and a couple guys uh you know Les
00:24:38.120
Hill and uh um the guys from Cod Shas
00:24:41.360
David boach and a couple of the other I
00:24:43.520
guess ex hashrocket guys help me put
00:24:45.919
together uh Ruby 5 it's a twice Weekly
00:24:48.159
News podcast another way that I like to
00:24:50.720
give people recognition is by telling
00:24:53.679
their story so if you've got a gem or a
00:24:56.440
you know some sort of driver or library
00:24:58.840
or a blog post or a tutorial or a
00:25:00.799
screencast that you want people to know
00:25:02.840
about that you put out this week not
00:25:04.679
enough people know about but you think
00:25:05.840
it's really useful I want to help you
00:25:07.840
get more recognition come find me during
00:25:09.720
the conference I've got a little
00:25:11.279
microphone I'd be happy to record you
00:25:13.399
get you on Ruby 5 get more people coming
00:25:15.880
back to your project watching your
00:25:17.320
tutorial contributing to your open
00:25:18.720
source project let me help you please
00:25:21.720
find me send me an email or send me a
00:25:23.960
tweet um but that's all I've got I
00:25:26.440
really appreciate you guys taking your
00:25:28.039
time to come and hear me speak and
00:25:31.320
thanks to all the Ruby Heroes and keep
00:25:32.880
on doing what you're doing and have a
00:25:34.720
great night thanks