It’s week 3 of our sponsorship drive! This week is a special one, because I’ve been out in the commuity, and I have a field report to share!
Tim on Rooftop Ruby
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of sitting down for a proper chat (not just a cameo) with my friends Collin and Joel on Rooftop Ruby. It was a wide-ranging affair, featuring not just the usual serving of English gastronomy, but also the hows and whys behind our sponsorship drive, and where we might take things in the future. It was a good one. Listen now!
Huge thanks to Collin and Joel for making this happen. I had very limited time to squeeze in this recording, and they were extremely accommodating.
Hanami on the Baltic shore
Last week I had another fun Ruby experience, travelling all the way from Australia to Latvia to attend the wonderful Baltic Ruby!
We had a couple of Hanami events at the conference. The first was part of Baltic Ruby’s OSS Expo, an unstructured afternoon where conference-goers and open source groups can come together. In our case, we had multiple folks try Hanami for the first time (and even fix some documentation bugs), fellow contributor Krzysztof Piotrowski continue his work on a db rollback command, and Ismael Celis created the world’s first event-sourced calculator on Hanami. No notes.
We even had a familiar face stop by for a chat!
While not technically part of the OSS expo, during the conference we also found some help from friend-of-the-framework Charles Nutter! Charles reviewed the hanami/hanami test suite and helped identify how we can get to green on JRuby. Thank you Charles for your help! I think Hanami on JRuby could make for a formidable combo of performance and code clarity, and I’m excited to make this part of our standard offering.
A new talk from Tim
I had the honour of delivering Baltic Ruby’s closing keynote. This time I talked about my life with Ruby and how a “black sheep” feeling led to the Hanami, Dry and Rom we have today. I also publicly launched our sponsorship drive and shared a delicious teaser about one of the next steps for ecosystem.
The talk was titled What I Talk About When I Talk About Ruby, and we had Haruki Murakami serve as both inspiration and spirit guide across the journey. This was another new narrative direction for me, after Ricky Martin and Ultima IV, and I think it turned out great. Thank you to Sergey and Ali for the opportunity!
In another first, this talk even had a soundtrack, with sweeping musical accompaniment provided by the conference’s live band. Folks, this is why you go to in-person conferences.
For the rest of you, the talk’s RubyEvents page is already up, and we’ll be sure to share this again once the video is live.
Sponsorship updates
(What is all of this? Read our sponsorhip site to learn more.)
In the week since our last update, we’ve had one person become a community patron and support our work on Hanami, Dry and Rom. Thank you very much, Andreas Wagner!
This means we’re still sitting at $27.5k:
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$27.5k of $70k — 39% to our goal…
Our first milestone is $40k. That’s not far off! If we can find a couple more business patrons, and maybe a dozen or so community patrons, we’ll reach our first milestone of $40k! I’m sure we can get there. Can you help us?