Ruby meetup
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Join your fellow Rubyists to talk about fun things you're working on.
Description
The Ruby programming language continues to be popular for web development and other uses in Portland and beyond. Come talk about what you’re working on, and find out what other people are using Ruby for.
Tags
Ruby, software, code
Speakers
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Reid Beels
Open Source Bridge- Website: http://reidbeels.com/
- Twitter: reidab
- Identi.ca: reid
- Favorites: View Reid's favorites
Biography
Reid Beels lives in the lovely town of Portland, Oregon where he is thrilled to be a part of a rapidly exploding technology community. He likes to design things, plan events, take pictures, bake, and ride his bike.
In the Spring of 2008, Reid finished studying Communication Design at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and now works as a freelance design, web development and interactivity consultant.
Current side projects include helping to organize Open Source Bridge, a new kind of developers conference, and hacking on Calagator, a wiki-like calendar aggregation platform.
Sessions
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- Title: Your Internets are Leaking
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Morrison
- Time: 4:45 – 5:30pm
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Excerpt:
Using your computer on a public network is like having a conversation on a city bus: people you don’t know can hear everything you say. They’ll probably be polite and ignore you, but you still might not want to shout out your credit card number. Yet this is what your computer does. All the time. And you don’t know it.
- Speakers: Reid Beels, Michael Schwern
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- Title: Ruby meetup
- Track: BoF
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
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Excerpt:
Join your fellow Rubyists to talk about fun things you’re working on.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels
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- Website: http://lifeofaudrey.com/
- Blog: http://dyepot-teapot.com/
- Twitter: spinnerin
- Favorites: View Audrey's favorites
Biography
Programmer at Elevated Code working with Ruby, Rails, and occasionally iPhone development. Writer of essays, recipes, horror comics, and knitting patterns. Photographer working with digital and film cameras, including Polaroid, Holga, and pinholes. Community organizer of unconferences like WhereCampPDX. Core team member of the infamous Calagator. Agitator for a variety of grassroots local tech.
Sessions
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- Title: The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun
- Track: Hacks
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 3:45 – 4:30pm
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Excerpt:
Social software is kind of a big deal right now. In the open-source spirit of transparency and dissection, let’s talk about what makes social technology creepy, what makes it fun, and how to hack things to maximize your desired outcome.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright
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- Title: Organizing user groups, a panel discussion
- Track: Culture
- Room: Morrison
- Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
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Excerpt:
User groups are a vital part of the open source community. Learn more about how to start a group, keep it going, and make an existing group better from a panel of experienced user group organizers.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Jesse Hallett, Eric Wilhelm, Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Audrey Eschright, Sam Keen
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- Title: Ruby meetup
- Track: BoF
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
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Excerpt:
Join your fellow Rubyists to talk about fun things you’re working on.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels
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- Title: Civic Engagement Meetup
- Track: BoF
- Room: Morrison
- Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
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Excerpt:
Come talk to other Portland software developers about how to engage with each other, the city of Portland, the Portland Development Commission.
- Speakers: Christie Koehler, Audrey Eschright
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Igal Koshevoy
Open Source Bridge Foundation- Website: http://pragmaticraft.com/
- Blog: http://twitter.com/igalko
- Twitter: igalko
- Identi.ca: igalko
- Favorites: View Igal's favorites
Biography
Business-Technology Consultant, creating sophisticated applications using Ruby, Python, Java and UNIX.
Open source contributor and community organizer:
- Open Source Bridge conference — Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
- Calagator tech events calendar — Co-Founder, Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
- pdxruby, Portland Ruby Brigade — User Group Leader
- pdxfunc, Portland Functional Programming Study Group — User Group Leader
- WhereCampPDX — Co-organizer of geospatial conference
- Ignite Portland, Corvallis and Bend — Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
- Legion of Tech — Advisory Board Member
- OpenConferenceWare — Author of an open source web-based conference software suite, which is running this site
- OpenProposals — Author of an open source web-based proposal collection system for Ignite-like events, the basis for OpenConferenceWare
- AutomateIt — Author of an open source server automation tool, which is running this site’s server
Sessions
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- Title: Organizing user groups, a panel discussion
- Track: Culture
- Room: Morrison
- Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
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Excerpt:
User groups are a vital part of the open source community. Learn more about how to start a group, keep it going, and make an existing group better from a panel of experienced user group organizers.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Jesse Hallett, Eric Wilhelm, Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Audrey Eschright, Sam Keen
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- Title: How to write quality software using the magic of tests
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Broadway
- Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
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Excerpt:
Writing quality software is a worthwhile challenge. Learn how to harness the magic of testing to create better software. This presentation will provide you with an overview of the different kinds of tests, show code using different testing tools, and help you decide when and how to apply these to your projects
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy
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- Title: Ruby meetup
- Track: BoF
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
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Excerpt:
Join your fellow Rubyists to talk about fun things you’re working on.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels