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Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.90,0:00:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SPEAKER: We have Mister Coby Randquist on\Nstage.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.80,0:00:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,COBY RANDQUIST: Thank you. Sorry about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.85,0:00:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like he said, I do organize a couple conferences,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.56,0:00:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the in-between time is the time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.52,0:00:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm used to getting up here and talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.41,0:00:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doing more of the introductions and not so\Nmuch the presentations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.18,0:00:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is actually my second non-lightning talk\Npresentation at a Ruby conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.43,0:01:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I guess we'll start here, if I can figure\Nout the clicker.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.15,0:01:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to thank the organizers for inviting\Nme.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.77,0:01:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I said, I operate behind the scenes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.94,0:01:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole lot more than I do on stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.08,0:01:15.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I appreciate the invitation to come out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.19,0:01:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prakash had mentioned that the community here\Nin India
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.12,0:01:23.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had benefited particularly from the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.49,0:01:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accessibility that Confreaks has been able\Nto make available
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.47,0:01:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all the various conferences around mostly\Nthe United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.26,0:01:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A large part of that is due in part to Chad\NFowler's support.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.81,0:01:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we first started Confreaks and approached\Nhim in 2007
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.25,0:01:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about recording the events, he was open to\Nit and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.86,0:01:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually worked with Microsoft to get sponsorship.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.94,0:01:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Microsoft was the primary video sponsor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.34,0:01:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 2007 and helped make this whole thing happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.15,0:02:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me junp back to my slides for a minute.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.62,0:02:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So who am I?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.86,0:02:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name's Coby Randquist.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.25,0:02:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been doing software development
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.89,0:02:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and managing teams and building teams for
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.45,0:02:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about twenty-five years or so now.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.44,0:02:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started off back working with Basic in business\NBasic
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.14,0:02:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a language called Thoroughbred Basic on\NUnix,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.60,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,originally writing in software to run
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,construction account- or, construction companies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.15,0:02:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I migrated to Visual Basic, did a lot of work\Nwith Microsoft tools.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.21,0:02:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a Microsoft guy for a good sixteen,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.98,0:02:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seventeen years, migrated to C sharp
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.76,0:02:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I discovered Ruby.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.85,0:02:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the other things is I like doing community\Nbuilding.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.89,0:02:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like getting groups of people like this\Ntogether
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.42,0:02:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finding the things that you care about
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.31,0:02:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then finding ways to make it more realistic\Nfor you to pursue those passions.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.18,0:02:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do that with Ruby.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.97,0:03:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the last year and a half I've started getting\Ninvolved
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.68,0:03:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the OpenStack community.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.92,0:03:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're not familiar with OpenStack,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.36,0:03:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is a platform for building cloud computering\Nmeet-ups, user groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.77,0:03:14.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know I'm very excited.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.100,0:03:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the first regional conference in India.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.01,0:03:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's been, you know at first when I got involved
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.37,0:03:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Ruby community it was like,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.57,0:03:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh this is really neat.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.46,0:03:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got these regional conferences.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.62,0:03:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All communities should have this and they\Ndon't.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.19,0:03:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at Python, Python has PyCon,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.73,0:03:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is their big national conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.13,0:03:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or their big conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.29,0:03:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's not a Python conference every\Ntime you turn around.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.77,0:03:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a Ruby conference just about every\Nweekend.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.24,0:03:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somewhere in the world there is a Ruby conference\Ngoing on.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.96,0:03:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see, oh so you'll notice the picture\Nof the truck.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.60,0:04:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my other passions is rock crawling.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.08,0:04:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just a really beefed up truck that\Nyou go out
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.14,0:04:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you go really slow over really nasty obstacles.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.42,0:04:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another community.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.88,0:04:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in this talk, if you looked at the abstract\Nis says
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.19,0:04:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing because I didn't actually provide\None to your organizers.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.34,0:04:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I wanted to kind of do was go back
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.81,0:04:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and talk a little bit about my beginnings\Nin the Ruby community,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.01,0:04:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how Confreaks got started,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.97,0:04:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then a little bit about the different\Nconferences that I do,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.24,0:04:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we'll spend a couple minutes just\Non
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.02,0:04:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the topic about Open Source software and why\Nwe do,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.19,0:04:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or why we should care about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.76,0:04:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we could help spread really the passion\Nfor what we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.13,0:04:54.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, well and I will get to that part\Na few slides down the road.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.95,0:04:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, how did I get started?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.66,0:05:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I said, I was working in a Microsoft\Nshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.52,0:05:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked for a company called Vehix dot com.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.68,0:05:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We did consumer automatic research. It was\Na dot net shop.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.79,0:05:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd found Ruby, I don't honestly remember\Nwhy I found it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.90,0:05:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I looked at it, played around with it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.30,0:05:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really liked it, but decided there was no\Nway I was
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.23,0:05:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gonna be able to convince our management to\Nmake the talent switch,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.18,0:05:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was no way I was gonna be able
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.58,0:05:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to convince all the people on the team that\Nwe should be changing,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.92,0:05:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we had just gone through a switch\Nfrom
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.33,0:05:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Visual Basic to the dot net framework in C\Nsharp.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.30,0:05:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we'd just gone through that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.27,0:05:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was no way we were getting another switch\Nthrough management,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.73,0:05:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I kind of put Ruby away.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.20,0:05:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then about six or eight months later
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.70,0:05:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got to the point where I wanted to teach\Nmy kids
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.58,0:05:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little more about programming,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.73,0:06:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you open up a Windows machine \Ntoday
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.52,0:06:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't come with a programming language,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.75,0:06:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or if it does it's very varied.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.81,0:06:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got into computers I started out on\Na Commodore 64
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.81,0:06:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a Vic 20, the basic language was there.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.62,0:06:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact that was the interface to the computer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.65,0:06:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You didn't have an operating system.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.16,0:06:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You booted right into the language,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.14,0:06:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which provided everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.76,0:06:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So lacking that I went looking for a language.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.95,0:06:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found Ruby, I found Chris Pine's book Learn\Nto Program.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.52,0:06:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't really tell from this photo here,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.80,0:06:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the computer there is actually a Sun Sparkstation\N10
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.27,0:06:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I have a lot of kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.93,0:06:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got six girls, now they range from-
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.00,0:06:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my youngest set of twins are seventeen,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.75,0:06:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my oldest set of twins just turned twenty-one,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.80,0:06:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my oldest daughter is twenty-three,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.30,0:06:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's one in the middle.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.87,0:06:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted a way to teach them so I actually\Nbuilt a little lab,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.43,0:06:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the cheapest way to do it at the time
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.92,0:07:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was I picked up a bunch of used Sparkstations,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.07,0:07:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got them running Linux, got Ruby installed\Non it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.64,0:07:09.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sat down and away we went.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.39,0:07:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ultimately it got me involved with Ruby.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.77,0:07:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of my kids really got into software development,\Nbut.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.91,0:07:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can't win all the battles.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.54,0:07:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, so that was in early 2006
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.98,0:07:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was trying to teach my kids how to\Ndo Ruby,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.88,0:07:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about that time I started to evaluate
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.20,0:07:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I was doing with my professional life\Nand at Vehix dot com,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.79,0:07:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it really got to the point where I wanted\Nto try to do Ruby.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.27,0:07:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to figure out how I could utilize\Nit.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.70,0:07:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at that point my options, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.54,0:07:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 2006 I basically decided to quit my job
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.59,0:07:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to open up a consulting shop and build software\Nsolutions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.23,0:07:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for people who didn't care about the technology\NI implemented it in,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.30,0:08:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which gave me the ability to code in Ruby\Nand in Rails
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.95,0:08:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without having to justify the technology choices\NI was making.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.12,0:08:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just had to provide a solution.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.15,0:08:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So after doing that,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.24,0:08:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been on my own for about two months or\Nso
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.61,0:08:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and heard about RubyConf through the local\Nusers group in Utah at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.76,0:08:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So heard about RubyConf. I was in Salt Lake\NCity, Utah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.12,0:08:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denver is literally a jump over the mountains,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.95,0:08:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you hop on a plane, forty-five minutes\Nyou're there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.08,0:08:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went to RubyConf in 2006 and Chad presented,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.61,0:08:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all these guys are presenting and they're\Njust blowing my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.05,0:08:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the end, I think the format was a little\Nbit different
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.62,0:08:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause I think Matz actually did his keynotes\Nat the end of one of the days.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.01,0:08:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he did his keynote speech,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.94,0:08:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he went through 400 slides and talked\Nabout a topic.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.18,0:08:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the topics was bike shedding.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.80,0:08:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he went through so many slides,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.77,0:09:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was already so brain fried at that point
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.16,0:09:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from all this new material that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.72,0:09:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to go back and watch it again and\Nit wasn't an option.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.44,0:09:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know I think there were some,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.23,0:09:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody who had a their Mac Pro turned around
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.70,0:09:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and aimed at the stage, so there were bits\Nand pieces
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.64,0:09:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the talk available, but there wasn't a\Nwhole lot available,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.29,0:09:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that kind of set the seed for Confreaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.21,0:09:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we went home from the conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.78,0:09:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started talking about a little bit-
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.90,0:09:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if you know, there's a guy named\NMike Moore.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.93,0:09:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He runs the MountWest Ruby Conference in Salt\NLake City.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.01,0:09:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he started, he actually had a number of\Nco-organizers
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.92,0:09:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first couple of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.69,0:09:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2007, he felt, I don't know if it was...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.77,0:09:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Were there regional conferences before '06?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.43,0:09:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.22,0:09:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Mike started organizing Mountain West RubyConf\Nin 2007
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.39,0:09:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, we should record this,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.45,0:10:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I got together with my partner at the\Ntime,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.81,0:10:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a guy named Carl Youngblood, and we figured,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.04,0:10:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, Mike was organizing the conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.93,0:10:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two of us said all right, we'll go figure\Nout how to record it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.10,0:10:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we borrowed some cameras and got a frame\Ngrabber and set up,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.62,0:10:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we recorded to tape,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.87,0:10:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because at the time cameras weren't what they\Nare today.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.75,0:10:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we recorded everything to tape.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.19,0:10:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We recorded the event,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.93,0:10:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we did post-production on it, we came up with-
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.00,0:10:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, yes, we basically said, how hard can this\Nbe?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.33,0:10:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After recording the tape and then spending\Nlike,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.93,0:10:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it took us like sixty hours to take\Nthe data
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.57,0:10:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from tape and get it converted into a digital\Nformat
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.89,0:10:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to where we could then do post-production\Non it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.37,0:10:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was horrible, but we got it done.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.19,0:10:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later that year we talked with-
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.88,0:10:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ruby Ho-Down was another regional conference
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.04,0:10:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that happened that year, and they signed up
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.29,0:11:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said yeah, let's record is.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.70,0:11:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we started to make that one happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.51,0:11:04.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carl and I went out and bought
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.47,0:11:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all new equipment and basically
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.89,0:11:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,created Confreaks at that point.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.53,0:11:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the company, we set up a company,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.14,0:11:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we went out and bought these cameras
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.75,0:11:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they set up on tripods
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.46,0:11:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we had all this wiring in place.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.27,0:11:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we'd run all the wires to the back of\Nthe room,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.90,0:11:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one guy sitting at the back of the room
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.19,0:11:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can remote-control three cameras and do all\Nthe switching.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.07,0:11:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was great, and it was hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.87,0:11:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in 2007 we recorded Mountain West.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.36,0:11:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We recorded Ruby Hoedown. We recorded RubyConf.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.99,0:11:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then through these connections we recorded
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.11,0:11:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a conference called SmigDig which is a Agile\Ndeveloper conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.76,0:11:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's held every year in Oslo, Norway.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.69,0:11:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we did our first international conference
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.79,0:11:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our first year and that was an adventure.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.07,0:11:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the set-up that we were using at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.08,0:11:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you can see at the bottom of the slide\Nhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.95,0:12:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'd used a double-wide format.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.44,0:12:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we recorded the video
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.67,0:12:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we recorded the slides
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.69,0:12:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we put them together.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.33,0:12:06.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were in the incredible high definition
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.39,0:12:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 960 pixels wide, because both frames were\Nstandard definition.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.46,0:12:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was the first year.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.99,0:12:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things I learned out of the year-
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.23,0:12:23.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually this quote came about between my\Nwife
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.96,0:12:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I as we were raising five kids under five-
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.26,0:12:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No matter how hard you think it is going\Nto be-"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.13,0:12:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this applies to just about any endeavor-
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.94,0:12:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you end up wishing it was that easy."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.14,0:12:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And part of that falls into the OpenSource
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.57,0:12:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the passion and the,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.68,0:12:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of the efforts that we undertake
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.11,0:12:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or all of the things that you look at in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.93,0:12:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, they're hard, but they're worth it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.65,0:12:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, so 2008, we recorded seven conferences.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.29,0:12:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won't go through them individually.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.89,0:13:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The O'Reilly's Tools for Change for Publishers
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.25,0:13:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was interesting because it was our first deviation
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.35,0:13:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from software development and Ruby Conferences.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.31,0:13:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you notice, we haven't done a lot of\Nthose.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.98,0:13:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's reasons for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.84,0:13:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We like, I like the community and the spirit\Nthat we have here.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.11,0:13:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was 2008. But, so that year was seven.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.23,0:13:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also in 2008 I'd been doing the independent\Ncontractor stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.01,0:13:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for about two years, and in the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.02,0:13:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end of 2008, the economy was getting\Na little...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.91,0:13:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little wonky, and I'd wrapped up a major\Ncontract
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.74,0:13:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had been a large part of keeping my business\Ngoing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.93,0:13:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd gotten to the stage where I was going\Naround and doing-
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.54,0:13:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the work that we were doing at that\Npoint
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.38,0:13:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was smaller project work and constantly dealing\Nwith,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.69,0:13:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where's the next check coming from,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.66,0:14:01.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and started having some checks bounce here\Nand there
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.85,0:14:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and decided that really wasn't where I wanted\Nto go.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.07,0:14:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wanted a regular income rather than
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.52,0:14:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the feast and famine that you get in consulting\Nwork.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.03,0:14:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I ended up joining yellowpages dot com.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.40,0:14:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yellowpages at the time was a wholly-owned\Nsubsidiary of AT&T.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.59,0:14:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are no longer owned by AT&T.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.42,0:14:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was also a transition in 2008,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.87,0:14:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I went from running my own company,\Njoined yellowpages,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.83,0:14:29.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moved to southern California,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.85,0:14:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and started running a development team there.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.29,0:14:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I got there, there was no meet-up.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.14,0:14:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was no regional meet-up and that just
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.02,0:14:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blew my mind because I came from Salt Lake\NCity, Utah,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.63,0:14:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has a population probably one-third
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.00,0:14:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or less of what the LA area has,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.58,0:14:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet we had Ruby meet-ups about every thirty\Nor forty miles
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.09,0:14:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along the major interstate,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.05,0:14:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause people didn't want to drive more than\N30 or 40 miles.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.41,0:14:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they just set up their own meet-up.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.41,0:15:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I got to LA there wasn't one,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.82,0:15:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we created a local meet-up and got that\Ngoing.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.28,0:15:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, I'll tell you, the biggest thing about\Nrunning a meet-up
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.50,0:15:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having them work is pick a date, pick\Na time, and be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.60,0:15:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be there consistently, whether you have presentations\Nor you just hack.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.87,0:15:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make it a staple that people can count on\Nand it will grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.97,0:15:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just getting the ability to get people together\Non a regular basis
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.20,0:15:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and something predictable that they can put\Non their calendars
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.60,0:15:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and know that this is gonna be there and it's\Ngonna be at that time and place.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.42,0:15:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, so that takes us into 2009. Our\Nbig change in 2009-
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.62,0:15:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this generally came-
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.24,0:15:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the progress that we've had with\NConfreaks dot com
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.11,0:15:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the years has actually came from MountWest\NRubyConf,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.28,0:15:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when Mike Moore says, hey, I really liked\Nwhat you did last year,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.54,0:15:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but let's try this.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.18,0:15:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we switched to doing high-definition slides.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.97,0:16:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So instead of capturing them and scaling the\Nslides
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.06,0:16:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from your poor resolution output to TV quality\Noutput -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.57,0:16:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a lot worse, or at least was at the\Ntime -
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.53,0:16:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we started capturing them at full resolution\Nand just,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.23,0:16:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we continued that year in 2009 to capture
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.43,0:16:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the speakers with standard definition cameras.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.94,0:16:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see, new conferences that year...
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.24,0:16:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Acts as Conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.80,0:16:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's not actually too many regional events
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.87,0:16:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this community that have started and then\Nstopped.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.00,0:16:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's been a couple. Acts as Conference\Nhappened once.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.97,0:16:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parallels and Convergences is actually not\Na Ruby conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.94,0:16:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we also did a Agile conference that\Nyear.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.24,0:16:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2010, Mike say, hey, this stuff's really\Nnice,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.69,0:16:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but can't we get high definition cameras now?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.04,0:16:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other thing that happened at the end of\N2009 that had
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.55,0:16:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a major impact on Confreaks is, in both '07\Nand '08
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.45,0:17:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we recorded the conference SmigDig in Oslo,\Nand Carl,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.68,0:17:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is my partner in Confreaks, had been talking\Nwith a company in Norway,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.93,0:17:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we met up with them both years we were\Nthere.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.04,0:17:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the end of 2009 they offered him a\Njob,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.75,0:17:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so Carl moved to Oslo, Norway, at which point\NI bought him out of Confreaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.26,0:17:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So 2010 started my first solo year running\NConfreaks,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.41,0:17:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in that year, Mike pushed me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.90,0:17:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted high definition cameras,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.20,0:17:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I changed from these robotic-controlled\Ncameras
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.27,0:17:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we had to something very similar to what
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.92,0:17:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're using today, as far as the cameras go.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.86,0:17:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in 2010 we recorded LA, MountainWest.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.91,0:17:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, 2009 was the year I launched
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.73,0:17:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Los Angeles Ruby Conferences.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.31,0:17:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna back-res there for just a second
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.68,0:17:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I launched the LA Ruby Conference
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.98,0:17:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a very specific reason,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.95,0:17:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it's one of the very similar reasons
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.93,0:17:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Prakash has helped launch Garden City\NRuby, which was-
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.78,0:18:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the time in Los Angeles, I had an engineering\Nteam, we had a lot-
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.63,0:18:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually had thirty or forty people working\Nin Ruby
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.89,0:18:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I knew there was no way I would ever get\Nthe budget approved
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.59,0:18:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to send thirty people over the period of a\Nyear traveling
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.15,0:18:19.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to different conferences, to get them to have\Nthe experience
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.57,0:18:23.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you all get to have by being here today,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.11,0:18:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as much as people can benefit from the\Ncontent
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.94,0:18:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we record at these events,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.16,0:18:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's half or less of what you get out of\Na conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.48,0:18:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The benefit of attending a conference is not\Njust your relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.99,0:18:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to speakers up here broadcasting\Nat you,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.92,0:18:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's the value you get out of talking\Nto people next to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.48,0:18:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the hallway track. It's the time that\Nyou spend actually discussing
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.46,0:18:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your coding issues, your office issues with\Nother people in similar environments
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.72,0:19:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can help influence your culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.72,0:19:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's where a lot of the benefit of\Nall this comes from.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.68,0:19:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started LA RubyConf in 2009 because
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.21,0:19:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the best way to A) get all of my people\Nto have
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.82,0:19:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that experience and B) we were looking for\Na way to
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.87,0:19:16.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,introduce Ruby to more developers
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.74,0:19:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we needed more people who could work\Nin Ruby,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.79,0:19:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the LA area, there's a huge amount\Nof software development going on,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.85,0:19:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a lot of it's dot net, a lot of it is\NJava.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.96,0:19:29.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we needed a way to introduce those people-
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.49,0:19:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this day almost every year at the Los Angeles\NRuby Conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.76,0:19:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I ask how many people get paid to work\Nin Ruby today,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.50,0:19:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only about sixty percent of the audience gets\Npaid to do Ruby.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.89,0:19:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other forty percent are there to learn\Nabout Ruby.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.11,0:19:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, so 2010, I just got through talking
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.67,0:19:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about changes with Los Angeles and now I'm\Nleaving.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.25,0:20:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the end of 2010, I decided that it was\Ntime for a change.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.00,0:20:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yellowpages was a fantasy company and a really\Ngreat opportunity for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.88,0:20:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and working for AT&T was an interesting set\Nof dynamics,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.81,0:20:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I wanted to move some place where-
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.10,0:20:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My wife has two daughters,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.15,0:20:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of her daughters lives on the Oregon\Ncoast,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.01,0:20:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have grandkids up there,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.16,0:20:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we wanted to be closer to them
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.29,0:20:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it wasn't a sixteen hour trip to go visit\Nthem.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.32,0:20:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SO I looked for a job doing Ruby,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.69,0:20:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running a Ruby shop, found one, and that's\Nall it took.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.32,0:20:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went to work for a company called G5.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.26,0:20:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I moved to Bend, Oregon, I figured small\Ncompany,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.82,0:20:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seven executive te- or seven members on the\Nexecutive team.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.68,0:20:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna have less dysfunction and more\Nability
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.10,0:20:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get things done than dealing with the hundreds\Nof people
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.62,0:20:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involved with the bureaucracy,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.82,0:20:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or thousands of people in the bureaucracy\Nat AT&T.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.53,0:20:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lesson learned.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.25,0:20:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can be just as function- dysfunctional
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.37,0:21:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with five or seven people as you can with\Nhundreds.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.28,0:21:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in 2011, we did more conferences,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.07,0:21:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more conferences started showing up.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.01,0:21:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The list of conferences that you see up here
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.61,0:21:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are events we actually went to and recorded.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.06,0:21:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's by no means a list of all the conferences
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.16,0:21:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were going on in the Ruby community,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.67,0:21:25.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there are a lot of events that happen\Nevery year
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.83,0:21:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't record, and if you go to our\Nsite we actually
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.00,0:21:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do a lot of work now to aggregate videos from\Nother conferences
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.11,0:21:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not just stuff that we produce.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.04,0:21:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So 2011, Mike came to me and said, hey,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.44,0:21:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loved the way the high definition stuff worked\Nout last year -
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.02,0:21:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's live stream.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.92,0:21:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we started live streaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.47,0:21:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also in 2011, after moving up to Bend-
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.25,0:21:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bend, Oregon is a community of about 85,000\Npeople,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.91,0:22:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I now have a small development shop working\Nfor G5 in Bend.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.52,0:22:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hire Ruby talent.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.42,0:22:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I get people to come to work for me?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.33,0:22:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we decided that-
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.69,0:22:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bend area is known for a couple of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.97,0:22:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One: there are several ski resorts;
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.94,0:22:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and two: we have twelve micro breweries.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.76,0:22:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With a population of 85,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.77,0:22:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the community is known for good beer.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.75,0:22:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we decided that we wanted to do a Ruby\Nconference,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.26,0:22:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in this case, the focus was a little different.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.56,0:22:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The, so we started Ruby on Ales.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.58,0:22:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The focus for Ruby on Ales wasn't so much\Nabout
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.80,0:22:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting all the local developers to learn\Nabout Ruby,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.39,0:22:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because quite frankly there weren't any, or,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.44,0:22:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the local developers we knew of.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.67,0:22:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a small community.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.63,0:22:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pretty much knew everybody that was writing\Ncode.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.84,0:22:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we wanted to do was put our city on the\Nmap
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.80,0:22:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Ruby community, so that when we talked\Nto people
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.53,0:22:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were trying to hire, trying to get people\Nto work with us,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.18,0:22:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they would know where we were at,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.76,0:23:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having a conference did that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.02,0:23:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the primary reason that started Ruby\Non Ales in 2011.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.94,0:23:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2012, so 2010 and '11,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.80,0:23:11.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was basically running Confreaks solo.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.15,0:23:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That got a bit arduous and a bit time-stretching,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.92,0:23:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I still had a day job as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.60,0:23:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in 2010, or 2012,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.24,0:23:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had my first full-time person come on that\NI trained,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.04,0:23:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she now actually goes out and records\Nconferences solo,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.34,0:23:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've got a second person that'll start
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.17,0:23:34.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recording conferences solo in 2014.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:34.81,0:23:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mike didn't have actually any technology changes\Nin 2012,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.92,0:23:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so adding staff and getting our response times-
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.57,0:23:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing that some of the community experienced
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.12,0:23:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 2010 and a bit in '11, is I'd go record\Na conference
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.25,0:23:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it would take six, eight,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.85,0:23:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in some cases twelve weeks before you\Nsaw the videos.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.87,0:24:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Adding staff has fixed that. All of the-
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.40,0:24:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we recorded RubyConf this year in November,\N8th through the 10th,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.70,0:24:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of the videos were online by
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.30,0:24:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,December 4th or 5th I believe, and that was,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.40,0:24:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, that's sixty some-odd videos.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.61,0:24:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2013. Now that I had full-time staff
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.58,0:24:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other people working on it
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.79,0:24:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wasn't marred with doing all of the production,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.24,0:24:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,post-production work myself, we expanded.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.31,0:24:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we actually recorded twenty- looks like\NI missed one,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.97,0:24:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we recorded twenty-three events in 2013.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.22,0:24:33.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Got out of the country again
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.15,0:24:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and recorded Arrr Camp and Git Belgiam this\Nyear in 2013.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.10,0:24:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The exciting thing is,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.15,0:24:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've now been doing the conferences
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.88,0:24:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and recording them, producing them for you\Nknow six years,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.67,0:24:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in 2013 we saw a ton of new regional conferences\Noccur in the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.96,0:24:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Berlington Ruby, which is probably the- actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.67,0:24:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wasn't their first year,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.39,0:25:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'd been doing it for a couple of years,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.24,0:25:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Berlington, Vermont is a city of about\N45,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.63,0:25:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Berlington holds a lot of statistical records\Nfor things -
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.51,0:25:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like they have the biggest shortest building\Nin the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.09,0:25:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things of that nature, where, you know, they\Nhave the tallest,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.27,0:25:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tallest building in the state of Vermont,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.17,0:25:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the shortest building of all the other\Nstates that have tall buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.88,0:25:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Vermont's a very small community,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.31,0:25:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Berlington was the, is the capitol of\NVermont,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.70,0:25:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the largest city and it has a population\Nbase of 45,000.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.23,0:25:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's fun to see even small communities,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.62,0:25:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out in the middle of- I won't say out in the\Nmiddle of nowhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.84,0:25:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but smaller communities can do this too.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.99,0:25:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conferences are something that can be done
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.09,0:25:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and can be done by a group of committed people.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.60,0:25:53.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the other things that we did in 2013\Nis,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.21,0:25:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in addition to Ruby on Ales, which is our\NRuby Conference-
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.79,0:26:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, also in 2012, yeah, in 2012,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.91,0:26:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left G5 and went back to work for the Deathstar\Nat AT&T,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.94,0:26:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only now I'm working at AT&T corporate,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.71,0:26:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we build cloud computing stuff,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:12.54,0:26:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's where the OpenStack influence comes\Nin.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.72,0:26:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the OpenStack community is very,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.61,0:26:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's different than the Ruby community,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.17,0:26:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if you look in the Ruby community,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.70,0:26:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you look at our list of sponsors,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.49,0:26:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our sponsors are generally small to medium-sized\Ncompanies
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.51,0:26:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are working on creating products
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.54,0:26:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and creating themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.56,0:26:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and building a marketplace and making things\Nhappen with technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.48,0:26:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the OpenStack community,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.67,0:26:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sponsors are folks like AT&T, IBM, CISCO,\NHewlett Packard.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.20,0:26:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're huge corporations who are involved
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.25,0:26:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with being able to build and utilize cloud\Nplatforms,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.66,0:26:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and OpenStack itself is a project that came\Nout of
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.81,0:27:00.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a joint effort between NASA, which is the
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.49,0:27:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,National Aeronautics and Space Association
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.48,0:27:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the United States and another company
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.99,0:27:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that built OpenStack together,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.51,0:27:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then they released it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.29,0:27:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to bring this feel of community to\NOpenStack,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.91,0:27:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we started OpenStack on Ales,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.43,0:27:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the small tech there is we had thirty-five\Nattendees.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.42,0:27:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a new concept.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.69,0:27:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even with thirty-five people are the conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.88,0:27:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that's about what you had at RubyConf\Nin 2001,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.43,0:27:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't it Chad? Thirty-four people at RubyConf\Nin 2001-
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.27,0:27:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're spreading the idea of
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.83,0:27:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,small intimate gatherings and meet-ups in\Nconferences.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.86,0:27:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was 2013.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.93,0:27:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2014, this is where we stand now.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.59,0:27:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first even we're recording this year is\NGarden City RubyConf.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.61,0:27:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you for having us.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.52,0:27:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will be, the conferences that are listed,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.06,0:27:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are ones that we are relatively
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.91,0:28:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confident we will be recording and/or producing\Nthis year.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.21,0:28:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with that, I've got three or four minutes\Nleft.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.55,0:28:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to get real quick, OpenSource and the\Nenterprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.13,0:28:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked for AT&T today
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.45,0:28:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've been there for about two years,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.11,0:28:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in my previous stints-
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.44,0:28:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're doing things, we're using OpenStack,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.56,0:28:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're using Python, we're using Ruby, the\Nway-
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.57,0:28:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just have a couple points I want to sum\Nup here.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.86,0:28:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The important thing is, if you work for large\Ncompanies
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.29,0:28:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are starting to utilize OpenSource,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.87,0:28:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the things is, at least within AT&T\Nwhich is
Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.11,0:28:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where most of my experience with this is,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.83,0:28:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they want to know who's the vendor that's\Ngoing
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.25,0:28:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be responsible for this.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.62,0:28:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we use Rails, who are we going to call\Nwhen there's a problem?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.68,0:28:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My solution to that was we hired four developers.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.23,0:28:55.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So part of my pitch that I've done within\NAT&T
Dialogue: 0,0:28:55.99,0:29:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for using OpenSource software is, we may not\Nget a vendor,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.11,0:29:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the problem as a company, even if we're\Nyour biggest purchases,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.51,0:29:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can't dictate what there,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.98,0:29:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how you respond to this problem that we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.68,0:29:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can put pressure on you
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.76,0:29:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can put pressure on vendors to do things,\Nbut we can't control it as concisely.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.58,0:29:19.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With OpenSource, if I have an issue on Rails,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.13,0:29:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we have an issue on any of our applications,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.81,0:29:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Activerecord or whatever,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.27,0:29:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can get a person who is a core contributor\Nto
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.92,0:29:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Activerecord to fix the problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.77,0:29:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we've been able to convince management\Nthat,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.57,0:29:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ok, so we don't have a vendor,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.61,0:29:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we need to put money into OpenSource.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.00,0:29:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to hire people
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.97,0:29:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we need to pay them to work on OpenSource\Nfull time.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.81,0:29:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not gonna be able to do this
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.99,0:29:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with smaller companies because it just doesn't\Nwork out.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.04,0:29:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With larger companies,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.00,0:29:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you'd normally be spending hundreds\Nof thousands of dollars
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.24,0:29:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a year with an organization to support you\Notherwise,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.26,0:29:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can make the argument to spend the money\Non staff,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.03,0:29:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we've done that.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.17,0:30:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, so Erin Patterson works for me at AT&T,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.16,0:30:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so if I have an Activerecord issue,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.51,0:30:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got the Activerecord guy that we can,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.82,0:30:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I can have him fix it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.03,0:30:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now luckily I don't have to do that very often,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.01,0:30:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's a pretty solid platform.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.27,0:30:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the, if you're in bigger companies
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.47,0:30:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're utilizing OpenSource,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.96,0:30:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't be afraid to make that argument,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.66,0:30:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that instead of paying for support to a vendor,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.58,0:30:26.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should be investing in our own people to\Nmake the product better,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.19,0:30:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we go through that with OpenStack as well\Nas Ruby and Python.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.29,0:30:37.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, OpenSource and you.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.53,0:30:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the reasons I started Confreaks
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.24,0:30:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back when I did is I'm what I call a glue\Ncoder.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.21,0:30:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I take disparate systems, I put them together.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:45.85,0:30:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I write code that gets them to talk to each\Nother
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.83,0:30:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make things work, and that's what I do,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.18,0:30:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that creates a lot of code that generally\Nneeds better tests,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.86,0:31:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of code that doesn't have any tests\Nat all,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.53,0:31:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a lot of code that runs inefficiently,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.55,0:31:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't have the patience to optimize\Ncode.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.49,0:31:12.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, when I, as I got involved with Ruby,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.05,0:31:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked at Confreaks, I looked at what was\Navailable
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.37,0:31:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, one of the ways that I can give\Nback to the community
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.92,0:31:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is by taking this non-obvious route of creating\Nthese videos
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.06,0:31:26.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making this content available to help\Nbuild the community,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.83,0:31:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the way I'm gonna give back,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.30,0:31:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's what I'm good at,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.17,0:31:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is organization and community and people.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.44,0:31:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not as good at code,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.40,0:31:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I love what we create here, so that's\Nwhere I focus.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.10,0:31:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as you think about what you're doing with\NOpenSource,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.47,0:31:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about what, how you can contribute
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.70,0:31:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what you can do that takes advantage of\Nyour unique skill set,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.36,0:31:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not about making the next project that everybody's\Ngonna use,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.51,0:31:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's so many supporting roles that\Nneed to be done,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.64,0:32:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so keep that in mind as you're looking at\Nit.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.23,0:32:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the next section, real quick,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.03,0:32:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna go through it a little bit quicker,\Nis just,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.72,0:32:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a couple things to think about in both\Nyour professional and personal lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.14,0:32:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my first question for you to ponder is,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.02,0:32:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why are you doing what you're doing today?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.41,0:32:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I wrote that I was looking not so\Nmuch as you,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.36,0:32:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as why you are at this conference as I was,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:25.70,0:32:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why are you doing what you spend forty plus\Nhours a week on?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:30.59,0:32:36.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Understand why you're doing it. What are you\Ntrying to accomplish by doing it?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.85,0:32:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, like I said, I've got six kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.87,0:32:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one of the reasons I work every day
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.56,0:32:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do what it is I do is to generate the\Nmoney
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.01,0:32:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give me a certain lifestyle
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.46,0:32:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and allow my kids to have a certain lifestyle
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.91,0:32:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to be able to go to college
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.74,0:32:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to be able to learn and do things.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.86,0:32:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's one of the reasons I do what it is\Nthat I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.81,0:33:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is what you're doing today what
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.03,0:33:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would be doing if you knew you could not\Nfail?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:13.68,0:33:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you knew you couldn't fail at what you're\Ngonna be doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.20,0:33:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would you do something differently than what\Nyou're doing today?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:23.37,0:33:29.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's OK if what you're doing facilitates\Nyour passions,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.65,0:33:33.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning, sometimes you work a job that is\Nnot
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.15,0:33:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the thing that you care the most about,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.46,0:33:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it gives you the resources
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.52,0:33:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the liberty to pursue the things that\Nyou care about,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:43.87,0:33:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is absolutely nothing wrong with\Nthat.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.70,0:33:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean that's crucial.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.69,0:33:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also makes it so that you can care more\Nabout your day job,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.37,0:33:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that thing you're doing that's not your\Npassion.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.96,0:33:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can care a whole lot more about it
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.81,0:33:59.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be a whole lot more excited about it if\Nyou understand
Dialogue: 0,0:33:59.31,0:34:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why you're doing it and that you're doing\Nit
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.59,0:34:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to drive something else in your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.83,0:34:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes it much less monotonous
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.93,0:34:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or much less tedious if you know that,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.46,0:34:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I do X, I may be able to do Y.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:14.78,0:34:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the last slide.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.97,0:34:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You owe it to yourself to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.36,0:34:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why you're doing it and what you expect out\Nof it.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.46,0:34:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, another, just see where my slide is,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.54,0:34:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm almost done. Yup, lost that thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.35,0:34:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, last quote, this is one of my favorite\Nquotes.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.77,0:34:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says, "In the information age, the barriers\Njust aren't there.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.21,0:34:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The barriers are self-imposed.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:47.49,0:34:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to set off and go develop some\Ngrand new thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.40,0:34:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.58,0:34:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick\Nin your refrigerator,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.38,0:34:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cheap PC to work on,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.85,0:35:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the dedication to go through with it."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.52,0:35:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a quote from John Carmack,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.22,0:35:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is the- one of the founders of id,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.40,0:35:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,created many of the first-person shooter games
Dialogue: 0,0:35:08.38,0:35:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the graphic engines that were behind them.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.11,0:35:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The key to this, though, in my opinion,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.95,0:35:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the - I can't see my capitalization,\Nanyway -
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.79,0:35:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the key to it is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.39,0:35:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...and the dedication to go through with\Nit."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.07,0:35:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the effort that it takes to put on a conference,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.35,0:35:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the effort it takes to attend, not even organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.95,0:35:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to attend a meet-up is just
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.05,0:35:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dedication to go through with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:32.65,0:35:33.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The commitment to say hey,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.61,0:35:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna take one evening a month,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:36.18,0:35:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or one evening every other month,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:37.72,0:35:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and go to this meet-up
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.74,0:35:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and participate and work on building my own\Nskills.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:42.40,0:35:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all about the dedication to go through\Nwith it. And with that, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:55.02,0:36:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,