One of the great things about Ruby and Rails is the "Ruby Community". Where is it? If you are new to Ruby, how do you find it? Once you do find it - your local Ruby club - what do you find there? Let's explore how we can run Ruby clubs and how to create new clubs.

1. What is your job at
your Ruby club?
(and why railsinstaller?)
@drnic | @wayneeseguin | engineyard.com
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2. Solve this
problem:
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5. 1.8.7 1.9.2
Rails 3
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6. 1.8.6 1.8.7 1.9.2
InstantRails Rails 3
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7. 200 d/l
each day
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9. 1.8.6 1.8.7 1.9.2
InstantRails Rails 3
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10. 1.8.6 1.8.7 1.9.2
InstantRails Rails 3
Rails Installer
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3 mins

13. Windows
3 mins
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14. OS/X (soon)
Windows
3 mins
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15. 33k d/l
But InstantRails
almost got to 1m d/l
http://ey.io/gu3t9S
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16. But...
How could our
“healthy Ruby/Rails
community” miss this?
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17. Novice Expert
Windows OS/X
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18. Why care?
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19. Ruby We
must
Ruby win
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20. Solution:
Awareness to Advocacy
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21. Awareness to Advocacy
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22. Awareness to Advocacy
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23. Mission:
Ruby on Rails on every
developer machine
(6 to 8.5m globally)
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24. Awareness to Advocacy
Novice to Expert
User to Core Contributor
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25. Corollary:
Healthy community =
Huge, diverse,
growing community
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26. I I
go belong
to a to a
meetup club
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27. You:
•Make Rails apps
•Share Rails
•Belong to your club
•Create your own club
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28. How?
What idea can we
steal?
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29. 250,000 4 million
members members
today in history
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30. Toastmasters:
•Speaking practice
•Training materials
•Self-organized
•15-25 people per club
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36. Ground up:
•Members join clubs
•Clubs aided by Areas
•Education program
•Services/tools
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37. Tools:
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38. Our Tools:
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44. tl;dr?
•Officer roles
•Meetings with purpose
•Growth, renewal
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45. roles
•President
•VP Education
•VP Membership
•Sergeant at Arms
http://www.toastmasters.org/clubofficers.aspx
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46. meetings
•Why did you come?
•Can you guarantee it is
always good?
http://ey.io/eY02XM
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47. renewal
•Rails is great? Share it
•Club is great? Share it
•New member experience
•Officer elections
http://ey.io/hBxZDN
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48. Perhaps
or
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could help

49. Your club
•Identify officer roles
•Opt-in to roles
•Why is everyone here?
•Create great meetings
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50. JEG2 says:
“We're a community
of builders”
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51. drnic says:
“Build your club, or
build another club”
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52. idea...
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53. Why care?
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55. Why care?
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56. Conference
or
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57. Make your
club great!
http://railsinstaller.org
@drnic | @wayneeseguin | engineyard.com
Thursday, April 21, 2011