Special Edition: Ruby Together – LIVE! from RubyConf 2018

Greater Than Code

Ruby Together This special episode of Greater Than Code was recorded in-person during RubyConf in Los Angeles on November 15th. Ruby Together's Executive Director, André Arko, was joined by board members, Jonan Scheffler, Valerie Woolard Srinivasan, and Adarsh Pandit. They discussed recent changes to the organization, including André's decision to step down from the board into the executive director position, the RubyMe mentorship program, and a preview of awesome new things to come. Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to [e-mail]. Are you Greater Than Code? Submit guest blog posts to [e-mail] Please leave us a review on iTunes! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode. To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Transcript: JONAN: Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Greater Than Code today, featuring the board of Ruby Together, which is a fantastic organization. We're going to learn more about them in a moment. First, I'd like everyone to introduce themselves, if you would please. Who are you, sir? ANDRÉ: Hi, I'm André Arko. I am known as 'Indirect' on the Internet of Things. You may have heard of some things that I worked on, including Bundler and Ruby Gems and I started Ruby Together. JONAN: You started Ruby Together? ANDRÉ: I started Ruby Together. JONAN: This thing that I'm on the board of you actually began. I was joking. I have heard of Bundler and Ruby Gems. They're both pretty important pieces of Ruby structure generally, so thank you for your contributions. ANDRÉ: Great. I'm glad to hear that you have heard of it. JONAN: I assume that's where that Bundler command that I can never seem to find because my Gem path is always wrong. I'm really bad at managing my dependencies, apparently. And you? ADARSH: Hi, I'm others Adarsh Pandit. I’m also on the board of Ruby Together. I'm a Ruby developer and consultant and I run an agency called Cylinder.Digital. JONAN: Cylinder.Digital is your agency where you consult, primarily in what space? What sort of things you do work on? ADARSH: We build custom web software for business problems like everybody else. JONAN: So if my business is the kind of business that occasionally has any problem at all, they could contact you and you will meet that challenge. ADARSH: That's correct, Jonan. JONAN: Excellent. And you, who are you? VALERIE: I'm Valerie Woolard Srinivasan, which is a mouthful, I'm sorry. I'm a Rails developer as well. I work at Panoply on the Megaphone software, which is actually for podcasters. JONAN: And Megaphone is fascinating. You were telling me about this. It lets you do all sort of dynamic things which are podcast things. VALERIE: Yes. All sorts of dynamic things. IT can do dynamic ad insertion, geotargeting and things like that. JONAN: Can you change my voice to make me sound better? VALERIE: Not in Megaphone but in other software. JONAN: The possibility exists -- VALERIE: That's a thing, yeah. JONAN: A feature coming soon on suggestion of -- VALERIE: Yeah, maybe like a Mickey Mouse -- JONAN: Okay. I'm sure that our listeners would love that. VALERIE: Yeah. JONAN: And I guess, finally I am Jonan Scheffler, a new member of the Ruby Together board. I joined a few months ago right in the midst of a very complicated conference season,