Ruby On Ales Day 1

Opensource Survival Guide

• @blowmage
• Slides
• 3 types of users
  • maintainers
    • typically at mastery level
  • collaborators
  • consumers
• Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
  • novice
    • rigid adherence to rules, rote recetitation
  • competence
    • situational perception, all work equal important
  • proficiency
    • coping with crowdedness (more things than able to do)
    • actions in relation to goals
    • planning, routines
  • expertise
    • holistic view
    • prioritization
    • own path
  • mastery
    • trancend reliance on rules, guidelines
    • deep, tacit understanding
    • based on experience, instinct
    • what is possible
    • analytical approach
• documentation
  • readme
  • rubydoc.info
  • guides
  • screencasts
  • examples
• can typically teach down 1 or 2 levels from current
  • just hard to know context/view
  • effort to do whatever documentation possible, so each level can continue
• encouraging contrib
  • add a CONTRIBUTING file, and explain setting up dev env, contacting maintainers, running tests, code conventions/style requirements, etc
  • rubocop, CI, issue labels (help wanted, easy, docs, etc)
  • vagrant/docker
  • beginner friendly usergroups
    • LA ROR study groups?
• communication
  • remote, different skills. technical writing, tone
  • “The Box” - Leadership and Self Deception (book)
    • self-deception

Thoughts

• applies to any team
• concentration on not justifying
• step outside box, reconsider situation
• be truthful
• pairing - screenhero
• encourage team to contrib opensource - learn how to contribute (get over intimidation as a group)
• RubyTogether - official 501c6 trade org - support OSS

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Including People

• @indirect - Andre Arko
• ruby weird reputation of sexist dudebros?
  • old reputation, maybe from early rails?
• not diversity, inclusion
• bias and exclusion problem
• https://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/
• How to include
  • Code of Conduct
  • docs (dev and end user)
  • issue acceptance
  • support is voice of users
• how to involve contributors
  • ask people for help
  • pairing
  • ask lots of questions, be honest about whats hard
• respect and empathy

Thoughts

• similar to the first talk, but still good
• more of an experience based talk. Andre works on Bundler

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Orbits

• @habitmelon
• Slides
• Code
• Geometry rules define space
• Model Universe, Rules, Objects
• Can model 2 body but not 3

Thoughts

• Lots of the math of vectors, etc, explaining what the ruby ended up being
• links have the code, which is pushing to a websocket server for realtime position rendering. Kind of a fun idea

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Choices

• @erniemiller
• LivingSocial alums
• interactive presentation (websocket omg)
  • users make choices, changes the preso
• choices have consequences
• loss aversion
• easy to get distracted from important choices
• intentionality - choose your choices.
• github.com/ernie/venture

Thoughts

• good think-piece on making choices
• could be very interesting elixir code

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Writing a test framework from scratch

• @the_zenspider
• github/zenspider
• Code
• microtest - walk through quick test runner
• Done > Good - can make good later
• good walkthrough of refining an idea

Thoughts

• pretty quick walkthrough of how minitest works, how test framework works

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Self teaching for developers

• Aja Hammerly
• @thagomizer_rb - github/thagomizer
• learn
• learn hard stuff
• ‘thinky’ stuff - ideas not skills
• build scaffolds for learning more
• MOOCS - online courses
  • coursera, itunesU, etc
  • video, forums, homework, quizzes, tests, structured, vetted. time consuming, feel like school
  • read the syllabus
  • be realistic about time
• Study Groups
• rosalind, exercism, project euler
• books
  • exercises
  • onine content
  • Elements of Computing Systems - Nisan and Shocken
  • Clause and Efect - Clocksin
  • The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt and Thomas
• talks
  • prolog
  • teach right after/during learnings
  • do talks, meet people, get jobs
  • tips: topic, you want to give. keep simple.
• hack week
  • team building
  • protyping
• learning time
  • read, hack, watch video
  • dedicated time

Thoughts

• good ideas for team building, projects, etc
• also for personal learning