Ruby Heroes 2016

Ruby Heroes 2016 took place at RailsConf in Kansas City, Missouri. This is the presentation that introduced our 9 new Ruby Heroes for the year.

Transcript

2. HEROES RUBY
3. rubyheroes.com
5. 2008 est.
7. 20 past heroes 133 nominees 454 nominations 9 new heroes
11. And you.
13. So many heroes, so little time.
14. Heroes, watch your feet.
16. Because of her tireless efforts in making the Open Source community a better place, by creating the Contributor Covenant and trying incredibly hard to get people, even in the most hostile environments, to adopt it.
17. Coraline Ada Ehmke
18. He’s a long time Ruby and Rails committer, organizes RubyKaigi — one of the great international Ruby conferences in Tokyo, and he’s the author of many widely used gems like Kaminari, active_decorator, traceroute, database_rewinder, and more.
19. Akira Matsuda ຂኦ ก
20. [In the last four years they] have raised almost half a million dollars and recruited hundreds of coaches and mentors to get dozens of women into programming and contributing to open source. [...] we can attest that it changes peoples' lives.
21. Anika Lindtner, Laura Gaetano, & Sara Regan Rails Girls Summer of Code:
22. [He] has put many years and tremendous effort into continuously and incrementally improving the C Ruby implementation. He wrote YARV, pushed for flonums, implemented partial generation garbage collection, and many many other improvements. All of these things have been the primary drivers of increased performance and better [garbage collection]. His impact is large but his presence is not (at least in much of the world outside Japan).
23. Kōichi Sasada 埮ኦᘗӞ
24. His articles are always informative and enjoyable. Furthermore, they focus on big language issues (performance, memory) and they mention problems AND solutions. [He] represents what is good about the Ruby community.
25. Richard Schneeman
26. With RubyTapas, [he] continues his long tradition of leveling up Ruby developers everywhere. In his appearances on the RubyRogues podcast, [he] always asks interesting questions and provides tidbits of wisdom on Ruby and the state of our community. With [books] like Confident Ruby and Exceptional Ruby, [he] has given guidance to many new Ruby developers on writing clean and readable Ruby code. [He] has inspired me to be not only be a better Ruby developer, but also better Software Developer overall. That's why he's my Ruby Hero.
27. Avdi Grimm
28. He has been leading the JRuby project for most of its existence, which has been responsible for many enterprises using Ruby. He is constantly working on making JRuby better and faster, and regularly going to conferences all over the world showing how you can use Ruby and still have high performance.
29. Charles Nutter
30. That’s all folks.