Don't Be An Asshole - Scottish Ruby Conf

Ruby is now almost two decades old. It has become a very mature language. The developers who have been using Ruby are a lot more experienced now. Our community has long since crossed the chasm and we are in the early majority stage. Even though we have many people who are well versed in the language we are again experiencing an influx of new developers.

I want to help those new developers feel comfortable enough to believe they can learn and become just as involved as the older developers. Also, I want to make sure that the older developers understand how they can help these new developers that are coming into our community. There are things we can do to make sure our community grows with great people and projects that are useful for everyone. I want the Ruby community to show the Open source community how we should be treating each other so that amazing things can be done.

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1. Don’t be an a**hole Monday, October 22, 12
2. @danishkhan Monday, October 22, 12
3. YES Monday, October 22, 12
4. LIKE Monday, October 22, 12
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7. davidyuweb Monday, October 22, 12
8. Agenda Monday, October 22, 12
9. •Overview •Bad Habits •Other Communities •Solutions Agenda Monday, October 22, 12
10. Overview Monday, October 22, 12
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13. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/ Monday, October 22, 12
14. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Monday, October 22, 12
15. Bad habits Monday, October 22, 12
16. DO not follow minaswan Monday, October 22, 12
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20. http://rubydramas.com/ Monday, October 22, 12
21. Abandoning Projects Monday, October 22, 12
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23. http://www.slideshare.net/mojodna/the-ethics-of-abandoning-software Monday, October 22, 12
24. Other Communities Monday, October 22, 12
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32. Solutions Monday, October 22, 12
33. Respect Each other Monday, October 22, 12
34. Always have readme files Monday, October 22, 12
35. Good Documentation Monday, October 22, 12
36. Have some examples Monday, October 22, 12
37. Use Github Pages Monday, October 22, 12
38. github issue labels Novice intermediate advance Monday, October 22, 12
39. send pull requests Monday, October 22, 12
40. In conclusion Monday, October 22, 12
41. be excelent to each other Monday, October 22, 12
42. the end Monday, October 22, 12