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SPEAKER: We have Mister Coby Randquist on
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
much the presentations.

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

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

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I wanted to thank the organizers for inviting
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
in India

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had benefited particularly from the

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accessibility that Confreaks has been able
to make available

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to all the various conferences around mostly
the United States.

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

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When we first started Confreaks and approached
him in 2007

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about recording the events, he was open to
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
Basic

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in a language called Thoroughbred Basic on
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
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
building.

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I like getting groups of people like this
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
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
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
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
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
time you turn around.

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There is a Ruby conference just about every
weekend.

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

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Let's see, oh so you'll notice the picture
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
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
is says

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nothing because I didn't actually provide
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
in the Ruby community,

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how Confreaks got started,

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

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and then we'll spend a couple minutes just
on

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the topic about Open Source software and why
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
for what we do.

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Because, well and I will get to that part
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
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
a dot net shop.

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And I'd found Ruby, I don't honestly remember
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
way I was

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gonna be able to convince our management to
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
we should be changing,

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because we had just gone through a switch
from

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Visual Basic to the dot net framework in C
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
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
my kids

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a little more about programming,

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and if you open up a Windows machine 
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
and at Vehix dot com,

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

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I wanted to figure out how I could utilize
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
solutions

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

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which gave me the ability to code in Ruby
and in Rails

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without having to justify the technology choices
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
so

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

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So heard about RubyConf. I was in Salt Lake
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
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
just blowing my mind.

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

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cause I think Matz actually did his keynotes
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
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
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
and pieces

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of the talk available, but there wasn't a
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
Mike Moore.

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He runs the MountWest Ruby Conference in Salt
Lake City.

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So he started, he actually had a number of
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
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
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
out how to record it.

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So we borrowed some cameras and got a frame
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
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
be?

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After recording the tape and then spending
like,

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

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from tape and get it converted into a digital
format

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to where we could then do post-production
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
those.

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There's reasons for that.

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We like, I like the community and the spirit
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
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
a little...

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

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

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

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A lot of the work that we were doing at that
point

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was smaller project work and constantly dealing
with,

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where's the next check coming from,

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and started having some checks bounce here
and there

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and decided that really wasn't where I wanted
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
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
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,
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
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
or forty miles

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along the major interstate,

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cause people didn't want to drive more than
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
going.

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

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

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

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Make it a staple that people can count on
and it will grow.

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Just getting the ability to get people together
on a regular basis

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and something predictable that they can put
on their calendars

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and know that this is gonna be there and it's
gonna be at that time and place.

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All right, so that takes us into 2009. Our
big change in 2009-

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And this generally came-

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

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over the years has actually came from MountWest
RubyConf,

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when Mike Moore says, hey, I really liked
what you did last year,

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but let's try this.

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So we switched to doing high-definition slides.

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So instead of capturing them and scaling the
slides

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from your poor resolution output to TV quality
output -

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which is a lot worse, or at least was at the
time -

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we started capturing them at full resolution
and just,

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we continued that year in 2009 to capture

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the speakers with standard definition cameras.

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Let's see, new conferences that year...

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Acts as Conference.

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There's not actually too many regional events

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in this community that have started and then
stopped.

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There's been a couple. Acts as Conference
happened once.

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Parallels and Convergences is actually not
a Ruby conference.

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And then we also did a Agile conference that
year.

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In 2010, Mike say, hey, this stuff's really
nice,

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but can't we get high definition cameras now?

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The other thing that happened at the end of
2009 that had

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a major impact on Confreaks is, in both '07
and '08

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we recorded the conference SmigDig in Oslo,
and Carl,

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who is my partner in Confreaks, had been talking
with a company in Norway,

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and we met up with them both years we were
there.

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And at the end of 2009 they offered him a
job,

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so Carl moved to Oslo, Norway, at which point
I bought him out of Confreaks.

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So 2010 started my first solo year running
Confreaks,

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and in that year, Mike pushed me,

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wanted high definition cameras,

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so I changed from these robotic-controlled
cameras

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that we had to something very similar to what

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we're using today, as far as the cameras go.

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But in 2010 we recorded LA, MountainWest.

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Oh, 2009 was the year I launched

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the Los Angeles Ruby Conferences.

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

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because I launched the LA Ruby Conference

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for a very specific reason,

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and I think it's one of the very similar reasons

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that Prakash has helped launch Garden City
Ruby, which was-

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

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I actually had thirty or forty people working
in Ruby

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and I knew there was no way I would ever get
the budget approved

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to send thirty people over the period of a
year traveling

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to different conferences, to get them to have
the experience

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that you all get to have by being here today,

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and as much as people can benefit from the
content

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that we record at these events,

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

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The benefit of attending a conference is not
just your relationship

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listening to speakers up here broadcasting
at you,

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

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It's the hallway track. It's the time that
you spend actually discussing

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your coding issues, your office issues with
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
all this comes from.

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So I started LA RubyConf in 2009 because

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

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

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introduce Ruby to more developers

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because we needed more people who could work
in Ruby,

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

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but a lot of it's dot net, a lot of it is
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
Ruby Conference,

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when I ask how many people get paid to work
in Ruby today,

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only about sixty percent of the audience gets
paid to do Ruby.

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The other forty percent are there to learn
about Ruby.

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All right, so 2010, I just got through talking

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about changes with Los Angeles and now I'm
leaving.

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

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Yellowpages was a fantasy company and a really
great opportunity for me,

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and working for AT&T was an interesting set
of dynamics,

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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
coast,

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and we have grandkids up there,

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so we wanted to be closer to them

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so it wasn't a sixteen hour trip to go visit
them.

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SO I looked for a job doing Ruby,

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running a Ruby shop, found one, and that's
all it took.

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So I went to work for a company called G5.

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When I moved to Bend, Oregon, I figured small
company,

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seven executive te- or seven members on the
executive team.

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We're gonna have less dysfunction and more
ability

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to get things done than dealing with the hundreds
of people

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involved with the bureaucracy,

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or thousands of people in the bureaucracy
at AT&T.

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Lesson learned.

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You can be just as function- dysfunctional

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with five or seven people as you can with
hundreds.

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So in 2011, we did more conferences,

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more conferences started showing up.

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The list of conferences that you see up here

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are events we actually went to and recorded.

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It's by no means a list of all the conferences

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that were going on in the Ruby community,

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because there are a lot of events that happen
every year

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that we don't record, and if you go to our
site we actually

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do a lot of work now to aggregate videos from
other conferences

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and not just stuff that we produce.

00:21:35.040 --> 00:21:37.440
So 2011, Mike came to me and said, hey,

00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.020
loved the way the high definition stuff worked
out last year -

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let's live stream.

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So we started live streaming.

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Also in 2011, after moving up to Bend-

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Bend, Oregon is a community of about 85,000
people,

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so I now have a small development shop working
for G5 in Bend.

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I want to hire Ruby talent.

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How do I get people to come to work for me?

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So, we decided that-

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The Bend area is known for a couple of things.

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One: there are several ski resorts;

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and two: we have twelve micro breweries.

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With a population of 85,000 people.

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So the community is known for good beer.

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So we decided that we wanted to do a Ruby
conference,

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and in this case, the focus was a little different.

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The, so we started Ruby on Ales.

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The focus for Ruby on Ales wasn't so much
about

00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:35.390
getting all the local developers to learn
about Ruby,

00:22:35.390 --> 00:22:37.440
because quite frankly there weren't any, or,

00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:40.670
the local developers we knew of.

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It's a small community.

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We pretty much knew everybody that was writing
code.

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What we wanted to do was put our city on the
map

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in the Ruby community, so that when we talked
to people

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we were trying to hire, trying to get people
to work with us,

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that they would know where we were at,

00:22:57.760 --> 00:23:00.020
and having a conference did that.

00:23:00.020 --> 00:23:04.940
That was the primary reason that started Ruby
on Ales in 2011.

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2012, so 2010 and '11,

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I was basically running Confreaks solo.

00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:14.920
That got a bit arduous and a bit time-stretching,

00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:18.600
because I still had a day job as well.

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So in 2010, or 2012,

00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:26.040
I had my first full-time person come on that
I trained,

00:23:26.040 --> 00:23:29.340
and she now actually goes out and records
conferences solo,

00:23:29.340 --> 00:23:31.170
and I've got a second person that'll start

00:23:31.170 --> 00:23:34.809
recording conferences solo in 2014.

00:23:34.809 --> 00:23:41.809
Mike didn't have actually any technology changes
in 2012,

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so adding staff and getting our response times-

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One thing that some of the community experienced

00:23:48.120 --> 00:23:52.250
in 2010 and a bit in '11, is I'd go record
a conference

00:23:52.250 --> 00:23:53.850
and then it would take six, eight,

00:23:53.850 --> 00:23:57.870
and in some cases twelve weeks before you
saw the videos.

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Adding staff has fixed that. All of the-

00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:05.700
we recorded RubyConf this year in November,
8th through the 10th,

00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:07.300
and all of the videos were online by

00:24:07.300 --> 00:24:11.400
December 4th or 5th I believe, and that was,

00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:13.610
you know, that's sixty some-odd videos.

00:24:13.610 --> 00:24:18.580
2013. Now that I had full-time staff

00:24:18.580 --> 00:24:19.790
and other people working on it

00:24:19.790 --> 00:24:22.240
and wasn't marred with doing all of the production,

00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.309
post-production work myself, we expanded.

00:24:25.309 --> 00:24:27.970
So we actually recorded twenty- looks like
I missed one,

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we recorded twenty-three events in 2013.

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Got out of the country again

00:24:33.150 --> 00:24:38.100
and recorded Arrr Camp and Git Belgiam this
year in 2013.

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The exciting thing is,

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I've now been doing the conferences

00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:46.670
and recording them, producing them for you
know six years,

00:24:46.670 --> 00:24:53.670
and in 2013 we saw a ton of new regional conferences
occur in the community.

00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:57.670
Berlington Ruby, which is probably the- actually,

00:24:57.670 --> 00:24:58.390
it wasn't their first year,

00:24:58.390 --> 00:25:01.240
they'd been doing it for a couple of years,

00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:04.630
but Berlington, Vermont is a city of about
45,000 people.

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Berlington holds a lot of statistical records
for things -

00:25:09.510 --> 00:25:16.090
like they have the biggest shortest building
in the country,

00:25:16.090 --> 00:25:19.270
things of that nature, where, you know, they
have the tallest,

00:25:19.270 --> 00:25:21.170
tallest building in the state of Vermont,

00:25:21.170 --> 00:25:26.880
is the shortest building of all the other
states that have tall buildings.

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So Vermont's a very small community,

00:25:28.309 --> 00:25:30.700
and Berlington was the, is the capitol of
Vermont,

00:25:30.700 --> 00:25:34.230
it's the largest city and it has a population
base of 45,000.

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So it's fun to see even small communities,

00:25:37.620 --> 00:25:40.840
out in the middle of- I won't say out in the
middle of nowhere,

00:25:40.840 --> 00:25:42.990
but smaller communities can do this too.

00:25:42.990 --> 00:25:45.090
Conferences are something that can be done

00:25:45.090 --> 00:25:48.600
and can be done by a group of committed people.

00:25:48.600 --> 00:25:53.210
One of the other things that we did in 2013
is,

00:25:53.210 --> 00:25:55.790
in addition to Ruby on Ales, which is our
Ruby Conference-

00:25:55.790 --> 00:26:01.910
Oh, also in 2012, yeah, in 2012,

00:26:01.910 --> 00:26:08.910
I left G5 and went back to work for the Deathstar
at AT&T,

00:26:08.940 --> 00:26:10.710
only now I'm working at AT&T corporate,

00:26:10.710 --> 00:26:12.540
and we build cloud computing stuff,

00:26:12.540 --> 00:26:16.720
and that's where the OpenStack influence comes
in.

00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:19.610
But the OpenStack community is very,

00:26:19.610 --> 00:26:21.170
it's different than the Ruby community,

00:26:21.170 --> 00:26:22.700
because if you look in the Ruby community,

00:26:22.700 --> 00:26:25.490
if you look at our list of sponsors,

00:26:25.490 --> 00:26:28.510
our sponsors are generally small to medium-sized
companies

00:26:28.510 --> 00:26:31.540
that are working on creating products

00:26:31.540 --> 00:26:32.559
and creating themselves

00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:37.480
and building a marketplace and making things
happen with technology.

00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:39.670
In the OpenStack community,

00:26:39.670 --> 00:26:45.200
the sponsors are folks like AT&T, IBM, CISCO,
Hewlett Packard.

00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.250
They're huge corporations who are involved

00:26:48.250 --> 00:26:54.660
with being able to build and utilize cloud
platforms,

00:26:54.660 --> 00:26:56.809
and OpenStack itself is a project that came
out of

00:26:56.809 --> 00:27:00.490
a joint effort between NASA, which is the

00:27:00.490 --> 00:27:02.480
National Aeronautics and Space Association

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:04.990
in the United States and another company

00:27:04.990 --> 00:27:06.510
that built OpenStack together,

00:27:06.510 --> 00:27:07.290
and then they released it.

00:27:07.290 --> 00:27:10.910
I wanted to bring this feel of community to
OpenStack,

00:27:10.910 --> 00:27:13.429
so we started OpenStack on Ales,

00:27:13.429 --> 00:27:18.420
and the small tech there is we had thirty-five
attendees.

00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:19.690
It's a new concept.

00:27:19.690 --> 00:27:21.880
But even with thirty-five people are the conference,

00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:25.429
and I think that's about what you had at RubyConf
in 2001,

00:27:25.429 --> 00:27:31.270
isn't it Chad? Thirty-four people at RubyConf
in 2001-

00:27:31.270 --> 00:27:33.830
So we're spreading the idea of

00:27:33.830 --> 00:27:37.860
small intimate gatherings and meet-ups in
conferences.

00:27:37.860 --> 00:27:38.929
So that was 2013.

00:27:38.929 --> 00:27:42.590
2014, this is where we stand now.

00:27:42.590 --> 00:27:46.610
The first even we're recording this year is
Garden City RubyConf.

00:27:46.610 --> 00:27:51.520
Thank you for having us.

00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:54.059
We will be, the conferences that are listed,

00:27:54.059 --> 00:27:56.910
there are ones that we are relatively

00:27:56.910 --> 00:28:02.210
confident we will be recording and/or producing
this year.

00:28:02.210 --> 00:28:04.549
So with that, I've got three or four minutes
left.

00:28:04.549 --> 00:28:08.130
I want to get real quick, OpenSource and the
enterprise.

00:28:08.130 --> 00:28:09.450
I worked for AT&T today

00:28:09.450 --> 00:28:12.110
and I've been there for about two years,

00:28:12.110 --> 00:28:13.440
and in my previous stints-

00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:15.559
So we're doing things, we're using OpenStack,

00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:20.570
we're using Python, we're using Ruby, the
way-

00:28:20.570 --> 00:28:25.860
I just have a couple points I want to sum
up here.

00:28:25.860 --> 00:28:29.290
The important thing is, if you work for large
companies

00:28:29.290 --> 00:28:32.870
that are starting to utilize OpenSource,

00:28:32.870 --> 00:28:36.110
one of the things is, at least within AT&T
which is

00:28:36.110 --> 00:28:38.830
where most of my experience with this is,

00:28:38.830 --> 00:28:40.250
they want to know who's the vendor that's
going

00:28:40.250 --> 00:28:42.620
to be responsible for this.

00:28:42.620 --> 00:28:47.679
If we use Rails, who are we going to call
when there's a problem?

00:28:47.679 --> 00:28:53.230
My solution to that was we hired four developers.

00:28:53.230 --> 00:28:55.990
So part of my pitch that I've done within
AT&T

00:28:55.990 --> 00:29:00.110
for using OpenSource software is, we may not
get a vendor,

00:29:00.110 --> 00:29:04.510
but the problem as a company, even if we're
your biggest purchases,

00:29:04.510 --> 00:29:06.980
we can't dictate what there,

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:09.679
how you respond to this problem that we have.

00:29:09.679 --> 00:29:10.760
We can put pressure on you

00:29:10.760 --> 00:29:16.580
and we can put pressure on vendors to do things,
but we can't control it as concisely.

00:29:16.580 --> 00:29:19.130
With OpenSource, if I have an issue on Rails,

00:29:19.130 --> 00:29:21.809
if we have an issue on any of our applications,

00:29:21.809 --> 00:29:26.270
with Activerecord or whatever,

00:29:26.270 --> 00:29:28.920
I can get a person who is a core contributor
to

00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:31.770
Activerecord to fix the problem,

00:29:31.770 --> 00:29:35.570
because we've been able to convince management
that,

00:29:35.570 --> 00:29:36.610
ok, so we don't have a vendor,

00:29:36.610 --> 00:29:39.000
so we need to put money into OpenSource.

00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:39.970
We need to hire people

00:29:39.970 --> 00:29:42.809
and we need to pay them to work on OpenSource
full time.

00:29:42.809 --> 00:29:43.990
You're not gonna be able to do this

00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:47.040
with smaller companies because it just doesn't
work out.

00:29:47.040 --> 00:29:48.000
With larger companies,

00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.240
where you'd normally be spending hundreds
of thousands of dollars

00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:53.260
a year with an organization to support you
otherwise,

00:29:53.260 --> 00:29:57.030
you can make the argument to spend the money
on staff,

00:29:57.030 --> 00:29:58.170
and we've done that.

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And, so Erin Patterson works for me at AT&T,

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so if I have an Activerecord issue,

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I've got the Activerecord guy that we can,

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that I can have him fix it.

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Now luckily I don't have to do that very often,

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because it's a pretty solid platform.

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So in the, if you're in bigger companies

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and they're utilizing OpenSource,

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don't be afraid to make that argument,

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that instead of paying for support to a vendor,

00:30:22.580 --> 00:30:26.190
we should be investing in our own people to
make the product better,

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and we go through that with OpenStack as well
as Ruby and Python.

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OK, OpenSource and you.

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One of the reasons I started Confreaks

00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:43.210
back when I did is I'm what I call a glue
coder.

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I take disparate systems, I put them together.

00:30:45.850 --> 00:30:47.830
I write code that gets them to talk to each
other

00:30:47.830 --> 00:30:52.179
and make things work, and that's what I do,

00:30:52.179 --> 00:30:57.860
and that creates a lot of code that generally
needs better tests,

00:30:57.860 --> 00:31:02.530
a lot of code that doesn't have any tests
at all,

00:31:02.530 --> 00:31:04.549
or a lot of code that runs inefficiently,

00:31:04.549 --> 00:31:08.490
because I don't have the patience to optimize
code.

00:31:08.490 --> 00:31:12.049
So, when I, as I got involved with Ruby,

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I looked at Confreaks, I looked at what was
available

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and I said, one of the ways that I can give
back to the community

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is by taking this non-obvious route of creating
these videos

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and making this content available to help
build the community,

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and that's the way I'm gonna give back,

00:31:28.299 --> 00:31:30.169
because that's what I'm good at,

00:31:30.169 --> 00:31:33.440
is organization and community and people.

00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:35.400
I'm not as good at code,

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but I love what we create here, so that's
where I focus.

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So as you think about what you're doing with
OpenSource,

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think about what, how you can contribute

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and what you can do that takes advantage of
your unique skill set,

00:31:50.360 --> 00:31:55.510
not about making the next project that everybody's
gonna use,

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because there's so many supporting roles that
need to be done,

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so keep that in mind as you're looking at
it.

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And in the next section, real quick,

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

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it's a couple things to think about in both
your professional and personal lives.

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So my first question for you to ponder is,

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why are you doing what you're doing today?

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And when I wrote that I was looking not so
much as you,

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as why you are at this conference as I was,

00:32:25.700 --> 00:32:30.590
why are you doing what you spend forty plus
hours a week on?

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Understand why you're doing it. What are you
trying to accomplish by doing it?

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So, like I said, I've got six kids.

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So one of the reasons I work every day

00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.010
and do what it is I do is to generate the
money

00:32:46.010 --> 00:32:47.460
to give me a certain lifestyle

00:32:47.460 --> 00:32:49.910
and allow my kids to have a certain lifestyle

00:32:49.910 --> 00:32:51.740
and to be able to go to college

00:32:51.740 --> 00:32:53.860
and to be able to learn and do things.

00:32:53.860 --> 00:32:58.809
That's one of the reasons I do what it is
that I do.

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Is what you're doing today what

00:33:02.030 --> 00:33:09.030
you would be doing if you knew you could not
fail?

00:33:13.679 --> 00:33:18.200
So if you knew you couldn't fail at what you're
gonna be doing,

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:23.370
would you do something differently than what
you're doing today?

00:33:23.370 --> 00:33:29.650
And it's OK if what you're doing facilitates
your passions,

00:33:29.650 --> 00:33:33.150
meaning, sometimes you work a job that is
not

00:33:33.150 --> 00:33:36.460
the thing that you care the most about,

00:33:36.460 --> 00:33:39.520
but it gives you the resources

00:33:39.520 --> 00:33:43.870
and the liberty to pursue the things that
you care about,

00:33:43.870 --> 00:33:46.700
and there is absolutely nothing wrong with
that.

00:33:46.700 --> 00:33:48.690
I mean that's crucial.

00:33:48.690 --> 00:33:52.370
It also makes it so that you can care more
about your day job,

00:33:52.370 --> 00:33:54.960
or that thing you're doing that's not your
passion.

00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:56.809
You can care a whole lot more about it

00:33:56.809 --> 00:33:59.309
and be a whole lot more excited about it if
you understand

00:33:59.309 --> 00:34:01.590
why you're doing it and that you're doing
it

00:34:01.590 --> 00:34:03.830
to drive something else in your life.

00:34:03.830 --> 00:34:07.929
It makes it much less monotonous

00:34:07.929 --> 00:34:10.460
or much less tedious if you know that,

00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:14.780
because I do X, I may be able to do Y.

00:34:14.780 --> 00:34:17.969
So the last slide.

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You owe it to yourself to understand

00:34:19.359 --> 00:34:22.460
why you're doing it and what you expect out
of it.

00:34:22.460 --> 00:34:26.540
Yeah, another, just see where my slide is,

00:34:26.540 --> 00:34:33.540
I'm almost done. Yup, lost that thought.

00:34:36.349 --> 00:34:40.768
OK, last quote, this is one of my favorite
quotes.

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It says, "In the information age, the barriers
just aren't there.

00:34:45.210 --> 00:34:47.489
The barriers are self-imposed.

00:34:47.489 --> 00:34:50.399
If you want to set off and go develop some
grand new thing,

00:34:50.399 --> 00:34:53.579
you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization.

00:34:53.579 --> 00:34:56.379
You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick
in your refrigerator,

00:34:56.379 --> 00:34:57.849
a cheap PC to work on,

00:34:57.849 --> 00:35:00.519
and the dedication to go through with it."

00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:02.220
This is a quote from John Carmack,

00:35:02.220 --> 00:35:06.400
who is the- one of the founders of id,

00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.380
created many of the first-person shooter games

00:35:08.380 --> 00:35:11.109
and the graphic engines that were behind them.

00:35:11.109 --> 00:35:13.950
The key to this, though, in my opinion,

00:35:13.950 --> 00:35:17.789
is not the - I can't see my capitalization,
anyway -

00:35:17.789 --> 00:35:19.390
the key to it is this:

00:35:19.390 --> 00:35:22.069
"...and the dedication to go through with
it."

00:35:22.069 --> 00:35:25.349
So the effort that it takes to put on a conference,

00:35:25.349 --> 00:35:28.950
the effort it takes to attend, not even organization,

00:35:28.950 --> 00:35:31.049
but to attend a meet-up is just

00:35:31.049 --> 00:35:32.650
the dedication to go through with it.

00:35:32.650 --> 00:35:33.609
The commitment to say hey,

00:35:33.609 --> 00:35:36.180
I'm gonna take one evening a month,

00:35:36.180 --> 00:35:37.720
or one evening every other month,

00:35:37.720 --> 00:35:38.739
and go to this meet-up

00:35:38.739 --> 00:35:42.400
and participate and work on building my own
skills.

00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:49.400
It's all about the dedication to go through
with it. And with that, thank you.

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