The
MountainWest RubyConf videos are done, including my talk on
Pragmatic Community Driven Development in Ruby.
This is the first time I've seen a recording of me talking. Aside from saying "umm" too much, I think this was one of my better talks.
Feedback is welcome here, and if you're a public speaker and have any tricks to avoid the overuse of "umm...", I'd be interested in hearing about it. It'd also be great to get the discussion going again about community driven development.
Errata / Notes:
- You might notice the slides are not synced with when I actually advance them. My laptop didn't give a good video feed, so Confreaks had to manually sync them. They did as best as they could, but sadly that'll cause you to miss a little of the Takahashi splendor. It's a shame, because this talk was one where I got the timings pretty good.
- The first part where I mention Boston RUG and 25 minutes was not about talk length, it was about 'getting my computer to work with the projector' time, which was probably 5+ minute at MWRC.
- When I asked who was involved with free software projects, better than half the room raised their hands
- The phantom question which got me talking about meta-docs was because James Britt said that he found you need to make it extremely easy for people to contribute to projects, and cited some examples from ruby-doc.org
- Ruport Mailing List was originally established in December 2005, not 2006
- The GPL/MIT comparison I quoted was from Eleanor McHugh
NOTE: If you only watch one other talk from MWRC, make it Michael Hewner's
RubyUSB. It was hilarious!
