Welcome To RubyConf 2006
RubyConf began with a simple welcome from Rich Kilmer. There was no keynote presentation just a simple welcome speech. The speaker took a quick impromptu survey to see how many of those in attendance today where present at last year’s RubyConf, and the year before that, and before that, etc. In the end only four people still had their hands up when the speaker asked who had attended the first RubyConf. The speaker noted, “great to see the growth in Ruby, not just in Rails.”
It is interesting to note that only a few female programmers where in attendance, in fact, I have only seen two. The speaker made an announcement that “they are flipping a lady’s room for us, …, but they haven’t told us which, so you have a 50% chance of getting slapped.”
I had lunch with John Long, lead developer of Radiant content management system, and fellow Java and Rails developers. From the conversation, we all spoke of Radiant plugin development, WordPress.com, self employment, developing online services, and startups. Lunch felt, in terms of content, like presentation only more more personal. The talk between sessions and in the hall are great. Rubyist hotly debate issues, such as documentation and the solution for the lack of documentation.
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