Ruby Heroes 2015 - Speaker Deck

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“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

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8th Year 2008 -> 2015

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2014 Thomas Enebo Erik Michaels-Ober Ara T. Howard Katrina Owen Ron Evans Rafael Mendonça França

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2013 Linda Liukas Brian Shirai Pia Henrietta Kekäläinen Terence Lee Sandi Metz Mike Perham James Tucker Kaari Saarinen

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your software Ruby Built by Ruby  Heroes

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Why?

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ruby5.codeschool.com

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rubyheroes.com

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397 Nominations

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44 Past Heroes

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6 New Ruby Heroes

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(it’s not just about code)

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Thanks

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Thanks To Everyone Who Voted

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Thanks To

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Pay it Forward

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[Directions for Heroes]

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Hero #1

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Contributes through Patches Patches Patches

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“Without him it doesn't matter what features exist or how fast Ruby becomes, because no one can use a language with bugs.” “If he was a ﬁsh then patches would be water, because he lives on them.” “He’s a tireless contributor. It’s unbelievable how fast he ﬁxes Ruby bugs.” “He is the MRI ‘Patch Monster’.”

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Nobuyoshi Nakada

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Hero #2

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“She’s been relentlessly tackling some of the least exciting bugs and optimizations in Rails this year.” “She's deprecated things, removed code, refactored confusing or brittle code. We need more people like her.” “She is mentoring students to start to contribute to OSS, speciﬁcally to Rails. We need people like her to keep our community growing.”

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Eileen Uchitelle

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Hero #3

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“She is one of the few female role models we have in the community.” “She strives to teach and share at every opportunity.” “She's written some of the best essays on diversity, Ruby, and databases that I've read in the last few years, she's a rubyist, and she's a hero.” “She contributes to the open source and Ruby communities in ways that a glance at a GitHub proﬁle fails to communicate.”

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Sarah Mei

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Hero #4

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“He’s made 500 commits to Rails over the past two years, making him the #5 contributor over that period.” “He does extensive documentation work, and brings in and facilitates new contributors to the Ruby ecosystem.”

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Zachary Scott

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Hero #5

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“He's not only the creator and maintainer of several brilliant libraries, foremost among them the peerless Sequel.” “He offers the most incredibly patient and helpful support, as any viewing of sequel-talk will illustrate.” “The Sequel Library is a massive body of intellectual work, mostly contributed by one person. Just look at the size, scope and breadth of the work. Its astounding.”

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Jeremy Evans

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Hero #6

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“His work on Ruby & Rails performance since he started working on Discourse has been a breath of fresh air in the Ruby community.” “Everyone wants faster programs, few do anything about it. He’s championed and written speed and benchmarking utilities for years.” “He contributes a lot to the Ruby and Rails community in terms of performance and benchmarking. Rails 4.2 would have serious issues without him.”

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Sam Saffron

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2015 Ruby Heroes Jeremy Evans Nobuyoshi Nakada Eileen Uchitelle Sarah Mei Zachary Scott Sam Saffron