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SPEAKER: We have Mister Coby Randquist on[br]stage.

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COBY RANDQUIST: Thank you. Sorry about that.

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Like he said, I do organize a couple conferences,

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so the in-between time is the time

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I'm used to getting up here and talking.

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Doing more of the introductions and not so[br]much the presentations.

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This is actually my second non-lightning talk[br]presentation at a Ruby conference.

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So I guess we'll start here, if I can figure[br]out the clicker.

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I wanted to thank the organizers for inviting[br]me.

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Like I said, I operate behind the scenes

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a whole lot more than I do on stage,

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so I appreciate the invitation to come out.

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Prakash had mentioned that the community here[br]in India

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had benefited particularly from the

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accessibility that Confreaks has been able[br]to make available

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to all the various conferences around mostly[br]the United States.

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A large part of that is due in part to Chad[br]Fowler's support.

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When we first started Confreaks and approached[br]him in 2007

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about recording the events, he was open to[br]it and

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actually worked with Microsoft to get sponsorship.

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Microsoft was the primary video sponsor

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in 2007 and helped make this whole thing happen.

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Let me junp back to my slides for a minute.

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So who am I?

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My name's Coby Randquist.

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I've been doing software development

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and managing teams and building teams for

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about twenty-five years or so now.

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I started off back working with Basic in business[br]Basic

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in a language called Thoroughbred Basic on[br]Unix,

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originally writing in software to run

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construction account- or, construction companies.

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I migrated to Visual Basic, did a lot of work[br]with Microsoft tools.

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I was a Microsoft guy for a good sixteen,

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seventeen years, migrated to C sharp

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and then I discovered Ruby.

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One of the other things is I like doing community[br]building.

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I like getting groups of people like this[br]together

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and finding the things that you care about

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and then finding ways to make it more realistic[br]for you to pursue those passions.

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I do that with Ruby.

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In the last year and a half I've started getting[br]involved

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with the OpenStack community.

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If you're not familiar with OpenStack,

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it is a platform for building cloud computering[br]meet-ups, user groups.

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You know I'm very excited.

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This is the first regional conference in India.

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It's been, you know at first when I got involved

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with the Ruby community it was like,

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oh this is really neat.

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We've got these regional conferences.

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All communities should have this and they[br]don't.

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If you look at Python, Python has PyCon,

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which is their big national conference,

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or their big conference,

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but there's not a Python conference every[br]time you turn around.

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There is a Ruby conference just about every[br]weekend.

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Somewhere in the world there is a Ruby conference[br]going on.

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Let's see, oh so you'll notice the picture[br]of the truck.

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One of my other passions is rock crawling.

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That's just a really beefed up truck that[br]you go out

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and you go really slow over really nasty obstacles.

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Another community.

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So in this talk, if you looked at the abstract[br]is says

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nothing because I didn't actually provide[br]one to your organizers.

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So what I wanted to kind of do was go back

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and talk a little bit about my beginnings[br]in the Ruby community,

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how Confreaks got started,

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and then a little bit about the different[br]conferences that I do,

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and then we'll spend a couple minutes just[br]on

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the topic about Open Source software and why[br]we do,

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or why we should care about this,

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and how we could help spread really the passion[br]for what we do.

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Because, well and I will get to that part[br]a few slides down the road.

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So, how did I get started?

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Like I said, I was working in a Microsoft[br]shop.

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I worked for a company called Vehix dot com.

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We did consumer automatic research. It was[br]a dot net shop.

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And I'd found Ruby, I don't honestly remember[br]why I found it,

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but I looked at it, played around with it,

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really liked it, but decided there was no[br]way I was

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gonna be able to convince our management to[br]make the talent switch,

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and there was no way I was gonna be able

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to convince all the people on the team that[br]we should be changing,

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because we had just gone through a switch[br]from

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Visual Basic to the dot net framework in C[br]sharp.

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So we'd just gone through that,

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there was no way we were getting another switch[br]through management,

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so I kind of put Ruby away.

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And then about six or eight months later

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I got to the point where I wanted to teach[br]my kids

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a little more about programming,

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and if you open up a Windows machine [br]today

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it doesn't come with a programming language,

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or if it does it's very varied.

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When I got into computers I started out on[br]a Commodore 64

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for a Vic 20, the basic language was there.

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In fact that was the interface to the computer.

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You didn't have an operating system.

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You booted right into the language,

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which provided everything.

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So lacking that I went looking for a language.

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I found Ruby, I found Chris Pine's book Learn[br]to Program.

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You can't really tell from this photo here,

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but the computer there is actually a Sun Sparkstation[br]10

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because I have a lot of kids.

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I've got six girls, now they range from-

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my youngest set of twins are seventeen,

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my oldest set of twins just turned twenty-one,

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and my oldest daughter is twenty-three,

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and there's one in the middle.

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I wanted a way to teach them so I actually[br]built a little lab,

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and the cheapest way to do it at the time

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was I picked up a bunch of used Sparkstations,

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got them running Linux, got Ruby installed[br]on it,

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and sat down and away we went.

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Ultimately it got me involved with Ruby.

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None of my kids really got into software development,[br]but.

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Can't win all the battles.

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All right, so that was in early 2006

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when I was trying to teach my kids how to[br]do Ruby,

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and about that time I started to evaluate

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what I was doing with my professional life[br]and at Vehix dot com,

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and it really got to the point where I wanted[br]to try to do Ruby.

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I wanted to figure out how I could utilize[br]it.

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So at that point my options, you know,

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in 2006 I basically decided to quit my job

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to open up a consulting shop and build software[br]solutions

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for people who didn't care about the technology[br]I implemented it in,

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which gave me the ability to code in Ruby[br]and in Rails

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without having to justify the technology choices[br]I was making.

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I just had to provide a solution.

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So after doing that,

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I'd been on my own for about two months or[br]so

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and heard about RubyConf through the local[br]users group in Utah at the time.

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So heard about RubyConf. I was in Salt Lake[br]City, Utah.

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Denver is literally a jump over the mountains,

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so you hop on a plane, forty-five minutes[br]you're there.

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So I went to RubyConf in 2006 and Chad presented,

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and all these guys are presenting and they're[br]just blowing my mind.

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And at the end, I think the format was a little[br]bit different

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cause I think Matz actually did his keynotes[br]at the end of one of the days.

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So he did his keynote speech,

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but he went through 400 slides and talked[br]about a topic.

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One of the topics was bike shedding.

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But he went through so many slides,

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and I was already so brain fried at that point

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from all this new material that

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I wanted to go back and watch it again and[br]it wasn't an option.

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You know I think there were some,

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somebody who had a their Mac Pro turned around

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and aimed at the stage, so there were bits[br]and pieces

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of the talk available, but there wasn't a[br]whole lot available,

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so that kind of set the seed for Confreaks.

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So we went home from the conference,

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started talking about a little bit-

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I don't know if you know, there's a guy named[br]Mike Moore.

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He runs the MountWest Ruby Conference in Salt[br]Lake City.

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So he started, he actually had a number of[br]co-organizers

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the first couple of years.

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In 2007, he felt, I don't know if it was...

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Were there regional conferences before '06?

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So, OK.

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So Mike started organizing Mountain West RubyConf[br]in 2007

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and he said, we should record this,

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and I got together with my partner at the[br]time,

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a guy named Carl Youngblood, and we figured,

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you know, Mike was organizing the conference.

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The two of us said all right, we'll go figure[br]out how to record it.

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So we borrowed some cameras and got a frame[br]grabber and set up,

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and we recorded to tape,

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because at the time cameras weren't what they[br]are today.

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So we recorded everything to tape.

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We recorded the event,

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we did post-production on it, we came up with-

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Oh, yes, we basically said, how hard can this[br]be?

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After recording the tape and then spending[br]like,

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I think it took us like sixty hours to take[br]the data

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from tape and get it converted into a digital[br]format

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to where we could then do post-production[br]on it,

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and it was horrible, but we got it done.

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Later that year we talked with-

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Ruby Ho-Down was another regional conference

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that happened that year, and they signed up

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and said yeah, let's record is.

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So we started to make that one happen.

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Carl and I went out and bought

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all new equipment and basically

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created Confreaks at that point.

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So the company, we set up a company,

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we went out and bought these cameras

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and they set up on tripods

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and we had all this wiring in place.

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And we'd run all the wires to the back of[br]the room,

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and one guy sitting at the back of the room

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can remote-control three cameras and do all[br]the switching.

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And it was great, and it was hard,

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and in 2007 we recorded Mountain West.

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We recorded Ruby Hoedown. We recorded RubyConf.

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And then through these connections we recorded

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a conference called SmigDig which is a Agile[br]developer conference.

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It's held every year in Oslo, Norway.

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So we did our first international conference

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our first year and that was an adventure.

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But the set-up that we were using at the time,

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if you can see at the bottom of the slide[br]here,

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we'd used a double-wide format.

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So we recorded the video

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and we recorded the slides

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and we put them together.

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And they were in the incredible high definition

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of 960 pixels wide, because both frames were[br]standard definition.

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So that was the first year.

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One of the things I learned out of the year-

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Actually this quote came about between my[br]wife

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and I as we were raising five kids under five-

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"No matter how hard you think it is going[br]to be-"

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and this applies to just about any endeavor-

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"you end up wishing it was that easy."

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And part of that falls into the OpenSource

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and the passion and the,

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all of the efforts that we undertake

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or all of the things that you look at in life.

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Yes, they're hard, but they're worth it.

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All right, so 2008, we recorded seven conferences.

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I won't go through them individually.

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The O'Reilly's Tools for Change for Publishers

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was interesting because it was our first deviation

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from software development and Ruby Conferences.

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But if you notice, we haven't done a lot of[br]those.

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There's reasons for that.

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We like, I like the community and the spirit[br]that we have here.

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So that was 2008. But, so that year was seven.

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Also in 2008 I'd been doing the independent[br]contractor stuff

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for about two years, and in the United States,

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at the end of 2008, the economy was getting[br]a little...

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a little wonky, and I'd wrapped up a major[br]contract

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that had been a large part of keeping my business[br]going.

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And I'd gotten to the stage where I was going[br]around and doing-

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A lot of the work that we were doing at that[br]point

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was smaller project work and constantly dealing[br]with,

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where's the next check coming from,

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and started having some checks bounce here[br]and there

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and decided that really wasn't where I wanted[br]to go.

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So I wanted a regular income rather than

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the feast and famine that you get in consulting[br]work.

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So I ended up joining yellowpages dot com.

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Yellowpages at the time was a wholly-owned[br]subsidiary of AT&T.

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They are no longer owned by AT&T.

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So that was also a transition in 2008,

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where I went from running my own company,[br]joined yellowpages,

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moved to southern California,

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and started running a development team there.

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But when I got there, there was no meet-up.

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There was no regional meet-up and that just

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blew my mind because I came from Salt Lake[br]City, Utah,

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which has a population probably one-third

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or less of what the LA area has,

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and yet we had Ruby meet-ups about every thirty[br]or forty miles

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along the major interstate,

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cause people didn't want to drive more than[br]30 or 40 miles.

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So they just set up their own meet-up.

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So when I got to LA there wasn't one,

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so we created a local meet-up and got that[br]going.

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And, I'll tell you, the biggest thing about[br]running a meet-up

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and having them work is pick a date, pick[br]a time, and be there.

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Be there consistently, whether you have presentations[br]or you just hack.

0:15:19.870,0:15:24.970
Make it a staple that people can count on[br]and it will grow.

0:15:24.970,0:15:28.200
Just getting the ability to get people together[br]on a regular basis

0:15:28.200,0:15:30.600
and something predictable that they can put[br]on their calendars

0:15:30.600,0:15:33.420
and know that this is gonna be there and it's[br]gonna be at that time and place.

0:15:33.420,0:15:40.420
All right, so that takes us into 2009. Our[br]big change in 2009-

0:15:40.620,0:15:42.240
And this generally came-

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A lot of the progress that we've had with[br]Confreaks dot com

0:15:45.110,0:15:49.280
over the years has actually came from MountWest[br]RubyConf,

0:15:49.280,0:15:53.540
when Mike Moore says, hey, I really liked[br]what you did last year,

0:15:53.540,0:15:56.180
but let's try this.

0:15:56.180,0:15:58.970
So we switched to doing high-definition slides.

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So instead of capturing them and scaling the[br]slides

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from your poor resolution output to TV quality[br]output -

0:16:05.570,0:16:09.530
which is a lot worse, or at least was at the[br]time -

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we started capturing them at full resolution[br]and just,

0:16:12.230,0:16:14.430
we continued that year in 2009 to capture

0:16:14.430,0:16:16.940
the speakers with standard definition cameras.

0:16:16.940,0:16:20.240
Let's see, new conferences that year...

0:16:20.240,0:16:22.800
Acts as Conference.

0:16:22.800,0:16:24.870
There's not actually too many regional events

0:16:24.870,0:16:29.000
in this community that have started and then[br]stopped.

0:16:29.000,0:16:33.970
There's been a couple. Acts as Conference[br]happened once.

0:16:33.970,0:16:37.940
Parallels and Convergences is actually not[br]a Ruby conference.

0:16:37.940,0:16:41.240
And then we also did a Agile conference that[br]year.

0:16:41.240,0:16:45.690
In 2010, Mike say, hey, this stuff's really[br]nice,

0:16:45.690,0:16:50.040
but can't we get high definition cameras now?

0:16:50.040,0:16:52.550
The other thing that happened at the end of[br]2009 that had

0:16:52.550,0:16:56.450
a major impact on Confreaks is, in both '07[br]and '08

0:16:56.450,0:17:00.680
we recorded the conference SmigDig in Oslo,[br]and Carl,

0:17:00.680,0:17:05.929
who is my partner in Confreaks, had been talking[br]with a company in Norway,

0:17:05.929,0:17:09.039
and we met up with them both years we were[br]there.

0:17:09.039,0:17:12.750
And at the end of 2009 they offered him a[br]job,

0:17:12.750,0:17:18.260
so Carl moved to Oslo, Norway, at which point[br]I bought him out of Confreaks.

0:17:18.260,0:17:24.409
So 2010 started my first solo year running[br]Confreaks,

0:17:24.409,0:17:26.900
and in that year, Mike pushed me,

0:17:26.900,0:17:28.199
wanted high definition cameras,

0:17:28.199,0:17:31.270
so I changed from these robotic-controlled[br]cameras

0:17:31.270,0:17:33.920
that we had to something very similar to what

0:17:33.920,0:17:36.860
we're using today, as far as the cameras go.

0:17:36.860,0:17:41.910
But in 2010 we recorded LA, MountainWest.

0:17:41.910,0:17:44.730
Oh, 2009 was the year I launched

0:17:44.730,0:17:46.310
the Los Angeles Ruby Conferences.

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I'm gonna back-res there for just a second

0:17:48.680,0:17:50.980
because I launched the LA Ruby Conference

0:17:50.980,0:17:52.950
for a very specific reason,

0:17:52.950,0:17:55.930
and I think it's one of the very similar reasons

0:17:55.930,0:17:59.780
that Prakash has helped launch Garden City[br]Ruby, which was-

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At the time in Los Angeles, I had an engineering[br]team, we had a lot-

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I actually had thirty or forty people working[br]in Ruby

0:18:08.890,0:18:12.590
and I knew there was no way I would ever get[br]the budget approved

0:18:12.590,0:18:16.150
to send thirty people over the period of a[br]year traveling

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to different conferences, to get them to have[br]the experience

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that you all get to have by being here today,

0:18:23.110,0:18:28.940
and as much as people can benefit from the[br]content

0:18:28.940,0:18:32.160
that we record at these events,

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that's half or less of what you get out of[br]a conference.

0:18:36.480,0:18:41.990
The benefit of attending a conference is not[br]just your relationship

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listening to speakers up here broadcasting[br]at you,

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but it's the value you get out of talking[br]to people next to you.

0:18:48.480,0:18:52.460
It's the hallway track. It's the time that[br]you spend actually discussing

0:18:52.460,0:18:58.720
your coding issues, your office issues with[br]other people in similar environments

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that can help influence your culture,

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and there's where a lot of the benefit of[br]all this comes from.

0:19:03.680,0:19:07.210
So I started LA RubyConf in 2009 because

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it was the best way to A) get all of my people[br]to have

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that experience and B) we were looking for[br]a way to

0:19:14.870,0:19:16.740
introduce Ruby to more developers

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because we needed more people who could work[br]in Ruby,

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and in the LA area, there's a huge amount[br]of software development going on,

0:19:24.850,0:19:27.960
but a lot of it's dot net, a lot of it is[br]Java.

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So we needed a way to introduce those people-

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To this day almost every year at the Los Angeles[br]Ruby Conference,

0:19:32.760,0:19:37.500
when I ask how many people get paid to work[br]in Ruby today,

0:19:37.500,0:19:40.890
only about sixty percent of the audience gets[br]paid to do Ruby.

0:19:40.890,0:19:45.110
The other forty percent are there to learn[br]about Ruby.

0:19:45.110,0:19:49.670
All right, so 2010, I just got through talking

0:19:49.670,0:19:53.250
about changes with Los Angeles and now I'm[br]leaving.

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So in the end of 2010, I decided that it was[br]time for a change.

0:20:02.000,0:20:05.880
Yellowpages was a fantasy company and a really[br]great opportunity for me,

0:20:05.880,0:20:12.810
and working for AT&T was an interesting set[br]of dynamics,

0:20:12.810,0:20:15.100
but I wanted to move some place where-

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My wife has two daughters,

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and one of her daughters lives on the Oregon[br]coast,

0:20:20.010,0:20:21.160
and we have grandkids up there,

0:20:21.160,0:20:22.290
so we wanted to be closer to them

0:20:22.290,0:20:25.320
so it wasn't a sixteen hour trip to go visit[br]them.

0:20:25.320,0:20:27.690
SO I looked for a job doing Ruby,

0:20:27.690,0:20:31.320
running a Ruby shop, found one, and that's[br]all it took.

0:20:31.320,0:20:34.260
So I went to work for a company called G5.

0:20:34.260,0:20:37.820
When I moved to Bend, Oregon, I figured small[br]company,

0:20:37.820,0:20:40.680
seven executive te- or seven members on the[br]executive team.

0:20:40.680,0:20:44.100
We're gonna have less dysfunction and more[br]ability

0:20:44.100,0:20:49.620
to get things done than dealing with the hundreds[br]of people

0:20:49.620,0:20:50.820
involved with the bureaucracy,

0:20:50.820,0:20:55.530
or thousands of people in the bureaucracy[br]at AT&T.

0:20:55.530,0:20:56.250
Lesson learned.

0:20:56.250,0:20:58.370
You can be just as function- dysfunctional

0:20:58.370,0:21:03.280
with five or seven people as you can with[br]hundreds.

0:21:03.280,0:21:09.070
So in 2011, we did more conferences,

0:21:09.070,0:21:11.010
more conferences started showing up.

0:21:11.010,0:21:13.610
The list of conferences that you see up here

0:21:13.610,0:21:18.059
are events we actually went to and recorded.

0:21:18.059,0:21:20.160
It's by no means a list of all the conferences

0:21:20.160,0:21:23.670
that were going on in the Ruby community,

0:21:23.670,0:21:25.830
because there are a lot of events that happen[br]every year

0:21:25.830,0:21:28.000
that we don't record, and if you go to our[br]site we actually

0:21:28.000,0:21:32.110
do a lot of work now to aggregate videos from[br]other conferences

0:21:32.110,0:21:35.040
and not just stuff that we produce.

0:21:35.040,0:21:37.440
So 2011, Mike came to me and said, hey,

0:21:37.440,0:21:40.020
loved the way the high definition stuff worked[br]out last year -

0:21:40.020,0:21:41.920
let's live stream.

0:21:41.920,0:21:46.470
So we started live streaming.

0:21:46.470,0:21:52.250
Also in 2011, after moving up to Bend-

0:21:52.250,0:21:55.910
Bend, Oregon is a community of about 85,000[br]people,

0:21:55.910,0:22:01.520
so I now have a small development shop working[br]for G5 in Bend.

0:22:01.520,0:22:03.420
I want to hire Ruby talent.

0:22:03.420,0:22:06.330
How do I get people to come to work for me?

0:22:06.330,0:22:08.690
So, we decided that-

0:22:08.690,0:22:10.970
The Bend area is known for a couple of things.

0:22:10.970,0:22:12.940
One: there are several ski resorts;

0:22:12.940,0:22:16.760
and two: we have twelve micro breweries.

0:22:16.760,0:22:18.770
With a population of 85,000 people.

0:22:18.770,0:22:21.750
So the community is known for good beer.

0:22:21.750,0:22:24.260
So we decided that we wanted to do a Ruby[br]conference,

0:22:24.260,0:22:27.559
and in this case, the focus was a little different.

0:22:27.559,0:22:29.580
The, so we started Ruby on Ales.

0:22:29.580,0:22:32.800
The focus for Ruby on Ales wasn't so much[br]about

0:22:32.800,0:22:35.390
getting all the local developers to learn[br]about Ruby,

0:22:35.390,0:22:37.440
because quite frankly there weren't any, or,

0:22:37.440,0:22:40.670
the local developers we knew of.

0:22:40.670,0:22:41.630
It's a small community.

0:22:41.630,0:22:44.840
We pretty much knew everybody that was writing[br]code.

0:22:44.840,0:22:48.800
What we wanted to do was put our city on the[br]map

0:22:48.800,0:22:52.530
in the Ruby community, so that when we talked[br]to people

0:22:52.530,0:22:55.180
we were trying to hire, trying to get people[br]to work with us,

0:22:55.180,0:22:57.760
that they would know where we were at,

0:22:57.760,0:23:00.020
and having a conference did that.

0:23:00.020,0:23:04.940
That was the primary reason that started Ruby[br]on Ales in 2011.

0:23:04.940,0:23:08.800
2012, so 2010 and '11,

0:23:08.800,0:23:11.150
I was basically running Confreaks solo.

0:23:11.150,0:23:14.920
That got a bit arduous and a bit time-stretching,

0:23:14.920,0:23:18.600
because I still had a day job as well.

0:23:18.600,0:23:21.240
So in 2010, or 2012,

0:23:21.240,0:23:26.040
I had my first full-time person come on that[br]I trained,

0:23:26.040,0:23:29.340
and she now actually goes out and records[br]conferences solo,

0:23:29.340,0:23:31.170
and I've got a second person that'll start

0:23:31.170,0:23:34.809
recording conferences solo in 2014.

0:23:34.809,0:23:41.809
Mike didn't have actually any technology changes[br]in 2012,

0:23:41.920,0:23:45.570
so adding staff and getting our response times-

0:23:45.570,0:23:48.120
One thing that some of the community experienced

0:23:48.120,0:23:52.250
in 2010 and a bit in '11, is I'd go record[br]a conference

0:23:52.250,0:23:53.850
and then it would take six, eight,

0:23:53.850,0:23:57.870
and in some cases twelve weeks before you[br]saw the videos.

0:23:57.870,0:24:01.400
Adding staff has fixed that. All of the-

0:24:01.400,0:24:05.700
we recorded RubyConf this year in November,[br]8th through the 10th,

0:24:05.700,0:24:07.300
and all of the videos were online by

0:24:07.300,0:24:11.400
December 4th or 5th I believe, and that was,

0:24:11.400,0:24:13.610
you know, that's sixty some-odd videos.

0:24:13.610,0:24:18.580
2013. Now that I had full-time staff

0:24:18.580,0:24:19.790
and other people working on it

0:24:19.790,0:24:22.240
and wasn't marred with doing all of the production,

0:24:22.240,0:24:25.309
post-production work myself, we expanded.

0:24:25.309,0:24:27.970
So we actually recorded twenty- looks like[br]I missed one,

0:24:27.970,0:24:32.220
we recorded twenty-three events in 2013.

0:24:32.220,0:24:33.150
Got out of the country again

0:24:33.150,0:24:38.100
and recorded Arrr Camp and Git Belgiam this[br]year in 2013.

0:24:38.100,0:24:40.150
The exciting thing is,

0:24:40.150,0:24:41.880
I've now been doing the conferences

0:24:41.880,0:24:46.670
and recording them, producing them for you[br]know six years,

0:24:46.670,0:24:53.670
and in 2013 we saw a ton of new regional conferences[br]occur in the community.

0:24:53.960,0:24:57.670
Berlington Ruby, which is probably the- actually,

0:24:57.670,0:24:58.390
it wasn't their first year,

0:24:58.390,0:25:01.240
they'd been doing it for a couple of years,

0:25:01.240,0:25:04.630
but Berlington, Vermont is a city of about[br]45,000 people.

0:25:04.630,0:25:09.510
Berlington holds a lot of statistical records[br]for things -

0:25:09.510,0:25:16.090
like they have the biggest shortest building[br]in the country,

0:25:16.090,0:25:19.270
things of that nature, where, you know, they[br]have the tallest,

0:25:19.270,0:25:21.170
tallest building in the state of Vermont,

0:25:21.170,0:25:26.880
is the shortest building of all the other[br]states that have tall buildings.

0:25:26.880,0:25:28.309
So Vermont's a very small community,

0:25:28.309,0:25:30.700
and Berlington was the, is the capitol of[br]Vermont,

0:25:30.700,0:25:34.230
it's the largest city and it has a population[br]base of 45,000.

0:25:34.230,0:25:37.620
So it's fun to see even small communities,

0:25:37.620,0:25:40.840
out in the middle of- I won't say out in the[br]middle of nowhere,

0:25:40.840,0:25:42.990
but smaller communities can do this too.

0:25:42.990,0:25:45.090
Conferences are something that can be done

0:25:45.090,0:25:48.600
and can be done by a group of committed people.

0:25:48.600,0:25:53.210
One of the other things that we did in 2013[br]is,

0:25:53.210,0:25:55.790
in addition to Ruby on Ales, which is our[br]Ruby Conference-

0:25:55.790,0:26:01.910
Oh, also in 2012, yeah, in 2012,

0:26:01.910,0:26:08.910
I left G5 and went back to work for the Deathstar[br]at AT&T,

0:26:08.940,0:26:10.710
only now I'm working at AT&T corporate,

0:26:10.710,0:26:12.540
and we build cloud computing stuff,

0:26:12.540,0:26:16.720
and that's where the OpenStack influence comes[br]in.

0:26:16.720,0:26:19.610
But the OpenStack community is very,

0:26:19.610,0:26:21.170
it's different than the Ruby community,

0:26:21.170,0:26:22.700
because if you look in the Ruby community,

0:26:22.700,0:26:25.490
if you look at our list of sponsors,

0:26:25.490,0:26:28.510
our sponsors are generally small to medium-sized[br]companies

0:26:28.510,0:26:31.540
that are working on creating products

0:26:31.540,0:26:32.559
and creating themselves

0:26:32.559,0:26:37.480
and building a marketplace and making things[br]happen with technology.

0:26:37.480,0:26:39.670
In the OpenStack community,

0:26:39.670,0:26:45.200
the sponsors are folks like AT&T, IBM, CISCO,[br]Hewlett Packard.

0:26:45.200,0:26:48.250
They're huge corporations who are involved

0:26:48.250,0:26:54.660
with being able to build and utilize cloud[br]platforms,

0:26:54.660,0:26:56.809
and OpenStack itself is a project that came[br]out of

0:26:56.809,0:27:00.490
a joint effort between NASA, which is the

0:27:00.490,0:27:02.480
National Aeronautics and Space Association

0:27:02.480,0:27:04.990
in the United States and another company

0:27:04.990,0:27:06.510
that built OpenStack together,

0:27:06.510,0:27:07.290
and then they released it.

0:27:07.290,0:27:10.910
I wanted to bring this feel of community to[br]OpenStack,

0:27:10.910,0:27:13.429
so we started OpenStack on Ales,

0:27:13.429,0:27:18.420
and the small tech there is we had thirty-five[br]attendees.

0:27:18.420,0:27:19.690
It's a new concept.

0:27:19.690,0:27:21.880
But even with thirty-five people are the conference,

0:27:21.880,0:27:25.429
and I think that's about what you had at RubyConf[br]in 2001,

0:27:25.429,0:27:31.270
isn't it Chad? Thirty-four people at RubyConf[br]in 2001-

0:27:31.270,0:27:33.830
So we're spreading the idea of

0:27:33.830,0:27:37.860
small intimate gatherings and meet-ups in[br]conferences.

0:27:37.860,0:27:38.929
So that was 2013.

0:27:38.929,0:27:42.590
2014, this is where we stand now.

0:27:42.590,0:27:46.610
The first even we're recording this year is[br]Garden City RubyConf.

0:27:46.610,0:27:51.520
Thank you for having us.

0:27:51.520,0:27:54.059
We will be, the conferences that are listed,

0:27:54.059,0:27:56.910
there are ones that we are relatively

0:27:56.910,0:28:02.210
confident we will be recording and/or producing[br]this year.

0:28:02.210,0:28:04.549
So with that, I've got three or four minutes[br]left.

0:28:04.549,0:28:08.130
I want to get real quick, OpenSource and the[br]enterprise.

0:28:08.130,0:28:09.450
I worked for AT&T today

0:28:09.450,0:28:12.110
and I've been there for about two years,

0:28:12.110,0:28:13.440
and in my previous stints-

0:28:13.440,0:28:15.559
So we're doing things, we're using OpenStack,

0:28:15.559,0:28:20.570
we're using Python, we're using Ruby, the[br]way-

0:28:20.570,0:28:25.860
I just have a couple points I want to sum[br]up here.

0:28:25.860,0:28:29.290
The important thing is, if you work for large[br]companies

0:28:29.290,0:28:32.870
that are starting to utilize OpenSource,

0:28:32.870,0:28:36.110
one of the things is, at least within AT&T[br]which is

0:28:36.110,0:28:38.830
where most of my experience with this is,

0:28:38.830,0:28:40.250
they want to know who's the vendor that's[br]going

0:28:40.250,0:28:42.620
to be responsible for this.

0:28:42.620,0:28:47.679
If we use Rails, who are we going to call[br]when there's a problem?

0:28:47.679,0:28:53.230
My solution to that was we hired four developers.

0:28:53.230,0:28:55.990
So part of my pitch that I've done within[br]AT&T

0:28:55.990,0:29:00.110
for using OpenSource software is, we may not[br]get a vendor,

0:29:00.110,0:29:04.510
but the problem as a company, even if we're[br]your biggest purchases,

0:29:04.510,0:29:06.980
we can't dictate what there,

0:29:06.980,0:29:09.679
how you respond to this problem that we have.

0:29:09.679,0:29:10.760
We can put pressure on you

0:29:10.760,0:29:16.580
and we can put pressure on vendors to do things,[br]but we can't control it as concisely.

0:29:16.580,0:29:19.130
With OpenSource, if I have an issue on Rails,

0:29:19.130,0:29:21.809
if we have an issue on any of our applications,

0:29:21.809,0:29:26.270
with Activerecord or whatever,

0:29:26.270,0:29:28.920
I can get a person who is a core contributor[br]to

0:29:28.920,0:29:31.770
Activerecord to fix the problem,

0:29:31.770,0:29:35.570
because we've been able to convince management[br]that,

0:29:35.570,0:29:36.610
ok, so we don't have a vendor,

0:29:36.610,0:29:39.000
so we need to put money into OpenSource.

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We need to hire people

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and we need to pay them to work on OpenSource[br]full time.

0:29:42.809,0:29:43.990
You're not gonna be able to do this

0:29:43.990,0:29:47.040
with smaller companies because it just doesn't[br]work out.

0:29:47.040,0:29:48.000
With larger companies,

0:29:48.000,0:29:50.240
where you'd normally be spending hundreds[br]of thousands of dollars

0:29:50.240,0:29:53.260
a year with an organization to support you[br]otherwise,

0:29:53.260,0:29:57.030
you can make the argument to spend the money[br]on staff,

0:29:57.030,0:29:58.170
and we've done that.

0:29:58.170,0:30:01.160
And, so Erin Patterson works for me at AT&T,

0:30:01.160,0:30:03.510
so if I have an Activerecord issue,

0:30:03.510,0:30:06.820
I've got the Activerecord guy that we can,

0:30:06.820,0:30:08.030
that I can have him fix it.

0:30:08.030,0:30:10.010
Now luckily I don't have to do that very often,

0:30:10.010,0:30:13.270
because it's a pretty solid platform.

0:30:13.270,0:30:15.470
So in the, if you're in bigger companies

0:30:15.470,0:30:16.960
and they're utilizing OpenSource,

0:30:16.960,0:30:19.660
don't be afraid to make that argument,

0:30:19.660,0:30:22.580
that instead of paying for support to a vendor,

0:30:22.580,0:30:26.190
we should be investing in our own people to[br]make the product better,

0:30:26.190,0:30:31.290
and we go through that with OpenStack as well[br]as Ruby and Python.

0:30:31.290,0:30:37.530
OK, OpenSource and you.

0:30:37.530,0:30:39.240
One of the reasons I started Confreaks

0:30:39.240,0:30:43.210
back when I did is I'm what I call a glue[br]coder.

0:30:43.210,0:30:45.850
I take disparate systems, I put them together.

0:30:45.850,0:30:47.830
I write code that gets them to talk to each[br]other

0:30:47.830,0:30:52.179
and make things work, and that's what I do,

0:30:52.179,0:30:57.860
and that creates a lot of code that generally[br]needs better tests,

0:30:57.860,0:31:02.530
a lot of code that doesn't have any tests[br]at all,

0:31:02.530,0:31:04.549
or a lot of code that runs inefficiently,

0:31:04.549,0:31:08.490
because I don't have the patience to optimize[br]code.

0:31:08.490,0:31:12.049
So, when I, as I got involved with Ruby,

0:31:12.049,0:31:14.370
I looked at Confreaks, I looked at what was[br]available

0:31:14.370,0:31:17.920
and I said, one of the ways that I can give[br]back to the community

0:31:17.920,0:31:23.059
is by taking this non-obvious route of creating[br]these videos

0:31:23.059,0:31:26.830
and making this content available to help[br]build the community,

0:31:26.830,0:31:28.299
and that's the way I'm gonna give back,

0:31:28.299,0:31:30.169
because that's what I'm good at,

0:31:30.169,0:31:33.440
is organization and community and people.

0:31:33.440,0:31:35.400
I'm not as good at code,

0:31:35.400,0:31:39.100
but I love what we create here, so that's[br]where I focus.

0:31:39.100,0:31:42.470
So as you think about what you're doing with[br]OpenSource,

0:31:42.470,0:31:46.700
think about what, how you can contribute

0:31:46.700,0:31:50.360
and what you can do that takes advantage of[br]your unique skill set,

0:31:50.360,0:31:55.510
not about making the next project that everybody's[br]gonna use,

0:31:55.510,0:31:59.640
because there's so many supporting roles that[br]need to be done,

0:31:59.640,0:32:01.230
so keep that in mind as you're looking at[br]it.

0:32:01.230,0:32:03.030
And in the next section, real quick,

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I'm gonna go through it a little bit quicker,[br]is just,

0:32:05.720,0:32:12.140
it's a couple things to think about in both[br]your professional and personal lives.

0:32:12.140,0:32:15.020
So my first question for you to ponder is,

0:32:15.020,0:32:18.410
why are you doing what you're doing today?

0:32:18.410,0:32:23.360
And when I wrote that I was looking not so[br]much as you,

0:32:23.360,0:32:25.700
as why you are at this conference as I was,

0:32:25.700,0:32:30.590
why are you doing what you spend forty plus[br]hours a week on?

0:32:30.590,0:32:36.850
Understand why you're doing it. What are you[br]trying to accomplish by doing it?

0:32:36.850,0:32:40.870
So, like I said, I've got six kids.

0:32:40.870,0:32:43.559
So one of the reasons I work every day

0:32:43.559,0:32:46.010
and do what it is I do is to generate the[br]money

0:32:46.010,0:32:47.460
to give me a certain lifestyle

0:32:47.460,0:32:49.910
and allow my kids to have a certain lifestyle

0:32:49.910,0:32:51.740
and to be able to go to college

0:32:51.740,0:32:53.860
and to be able to learn and do things.

0:32:53.860,0:32:58.809
That's one of the reasons I do what it is[br]that I do.

0:32:58.809,0:33:02.030
Is what you're doing today what

0:33:02.030,0:33:09.030
you would be doing if you knew you could not[br]fail?

0:33:13.679,0:33:18.200
So if you knew you couldn't fail at what you're[br]gonna be doing,

0:33:18.200,0:33:23.370
would you do something differently than what[br]you're doing today?

0:33:23.370,0:33:29.650
And it's OK if what you're doing facilitates[br]your passions,

0:33:29.650,0:33:33.150
meaning, sometimes you work a job that is[br]not

0:33:33.150,0:33:36.460
the thing that you care the most about,

0:33:36.460,0:33:39.520
but it gives you the resources

0:33:39.520,0:33:43.870
and the liberty to pursue the things that[br]you care about,

0:33:43.870,0:33:46.700
and there is absolutely nothing wrong with[br]that.

0:33:46.700,0:33:48.690
I mean that's crucial.

0:33:48.690,0:33:52.370
It also makes it so that you can care more[br]about your day job,

0:33:52.370,0:33:54.960
or that thing you're doing that's not your[br]passion.

0:33:54.960,0:33:56.809
You can care a whole lot more about it

0:33:56.809,0:33:59.309
and be a whole lot more excited about it if[br]you understand

0:33:59.309,0:34:01.590
why you're doing it and that you're doing[br]it

0:34:01.590,0:34:03.830
to drive something else in your life.

0:34:03.830,0:34:07.929
It makes it much less monotonous

0:34:07.929,0:34:10.460
or much less tedious if you know that,

0:34:10.460,0:34:14.780
because I do X, I may be able to do Y.

0:34:14.780,0:34:17.969
So the last slide.

0:34:17.969,0:34:19.359
You owe it to yourself to understand

0:34:19.359,0:34:22.460
why you're doing it and what you expect out[br]of it.

0:34:22.460,0:34:26.540
Yeah, another, just see where my slide is,

0:34:26.540,0:34:33.540
I'm almost done. Yup, lost that thought.

0:34:36.349,0:34:40.768
OK, last quote, this is one of my favorite[br]quotes.

0:34:40.768,0:34:45.210
It says, "In the information age, the barriers[br]just aren't there.

0:34:45.210,0:34:47.489
The barriers are self-imposed.

0:34:47.489,0:34:50.399
If you want to set off and go develop some[br]grand new thing,

0:34:50.399,0:34:53.579
you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization.

0:34:53.579,0:34:56.379
You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick[br]in your refrigerator,

0:34:56.379,0:34:57.849
a cheap PC to work on,

0:34:57.849,0:35:00.519
and the dedication to go through with it."

0:35:00.519,0:35:02.220
This is a quote from John Carmack,

0:35:02.220,0:35:06.400
who is the- one of the founders of id,

0:35:06.400,0:35:08.380
created many of the first-person shooter games

0:35:08.380,0:35:11.109
and the graphic engines that were behind them.

0:35:11.109,0:35:13.950
The key to this, though, in my opinion,

0:35:13.950,0:35:17.789
is not the - I can't see my capitalization,[br]anyway -

0:35:17.789,0:35:19.390
the key to it is this:

0:35:19.390,0:35:22.069
"...and the dedication to go through with[br]it."

0:35:22.069,0:35:25.349
So the effort that it takes to put on a conference,

0:35:25.349,0:35:28.950
the effort it takes to attend, not even organization,

0:35:28.950,0:35:31.049
but to attend a meet-up is just

0:35:31.049,0:35:32.650
the dedication to go through with it.

0:35:32.650,0:35:33.609
The commitment to say hey,

0:35:33.609,0:35:36.180
I'm gonna take one evening a month,

0:35:36.180,0:35:37.720
or one evening every other month,

0:35:37.720,0:35:38.739
and go to this meet-up

0:35:38.739,0:35:42.400
and participate and work on building my own[br]skills.

0:35:42.400,0:35:49.400
It's all about the dedication to go through[br]with it. And with that, thank you.

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