Relevance @ RailsConf 2008
Posted by Larry Karnowski Thu, 29 May 2008 15:43:00 GMT
Today I'm attending my first RailsConf and coincidentally my first conference as a Relevance employee. Let me tell you, Relevance does conferences differently than anywhere else I've worked. I'll argue that they do them right.
First off, we put 80% of the company on one plane yesterday. (Hmm, okay, maybe that was a little scary.) We took up several rows on the plane, and we definitely made an impression on the passengers and staff. Several rows of geeks all sitting with MacBook Pros passing airplane power cords up and down the rows was a sight to see! Much hacking got done, for sure.
Secondly, pretty much the entire company is giving a tutorial together later this afternoon. Technically, the talk is being given by the company's founders, Stu Halloway and Justin Gehtland, and two of the principals, Rob Sanheim and Jason Rudolph, but in reality we're all pitching in. The session itself is a bit different -- it's a hands-on walk-through of how to approach a Ruby open source project and contribute. It's metric-tool heavy and really gives your average Ruby/Rails programmer a firm grasp of how to take a four hour coding session and turn it into useful patches for a real open source project. It's one of the most innovative and interesting tutorials I've seen in my several years as an open source guy, and I'm proud to be a part of it.
I hope y'all will stop by our tutorial today if you're in the conference. If you can't make it, be sure to stop one of the Relevance guys to say hello. You'll see us in our "think relevance" t-shirts all up and down the halls. Relevance is all-in at RailsConf.