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David Hill @davidhill.dev · 3d

Marty and I had a great chat with Irina Nazarova about the upcoming SFRuby conference and meetups.

www.buzzsprout.com/2509083/epis...

Irina Nazarova: SFRuby Conf - The Ruby Gems Podcast

Irina Nazarova shares her journey revitalizing San Francisco's Ruby community through local meetups and the upcoming SF Ruby Conference. She explains her mission to connect startups with Ruby develope...

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 2d

Friends, this is our new account for all things SF Ruby!

San Francisco Ruby Conference, Nov 19-21 @sfruby.com · 2d

Hello, Ruby World! sfruby.com

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 2d

We did it!! 🥹👏

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 2d

We did it!! 🥹👏

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thoughtbot @thoughtbot.com · 6d

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 6d

I definitely agree with that.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 6d

I am not saying it couldn’t have been done better. We had employees who didn’t even know it was happening before receiving the marketing email. There was just such a lack of leadership, and no consistent leadership, and communication channels were disorganized… I wouldn’t call it malicious.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 6d

I genuinely don’t think the lack of communication was meant to be malicious. Not alerting sponsors sooner was undoubtedly an oversight and one can certainly argue that inviting him was a bad calculation.

We also waited on the external comms because the decision and details around it weren’t set yet

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 6d

…and a “full circle” moment as it was the last RailsConf ever. There was no discussion that I heard about inviting him to future RubyConfs or platforming him in any other ways.

We also had 3 different executive directors within the span of time that the decision was brought up and finalized.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 6d

*sheepishly raises hand as the person who managed external communications for this particular thing*

From my somewhat limited perspective, having not been involved in the decision or with the initial conversations myself, I genuinely believe that most folks truly wanted it to be a unifying gesture

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Noel Rappin @noelrappin.com · 7d

Here's a coupon for $50 off the admission fee for SF Ruby (sfruby.com)

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I'll be doing a workshop on Dynamic Ruby, and even if you don't want to see that, there is a full slate of great speakers -- I'd love to see you there.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 7d

Do you think part of that is taking pride in the fact that Ruby is a Japanese invention (for lack of a better word) or a cultural feeling of social responsibility to contribute back?

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 7d

I’m sorry you’re going through this :(

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 7d

I really like these ideas 👀 I was advocating for supporting Ruby Events in some way but we didn’t have the bandwidth I think. But it’s so mission aligned. As well as the other things you mentioned.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 7d

Also please don’t hyphenate “open source” (because it bothers me 😅)

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 7d

I think that’s a very healthy way to approach it

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 7d

Tangents & Threads, my new clothing boutique (okay bye lmao)

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

Anyway sorry to totally go off on a tangent in this thread lmao. Carry on.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

Oh yes we spoke briefly about it at Kaigi in April! I would love to meet up with @nateberkopec.bsky.social and was intending to reach out. 😂 Justin will also be speaking at the Tokyo Ruby meetup in Nov.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

Yeah I’m really looking forward to it!!

My husband and I hope to move to Japan on the Japanese Startup Visa (with a company based on Ruby) so I think this will be a really interesting conference for us to explore the Japanese business side of things.

And Matsue seems so lovely. 🥹

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

I agree with that, OSS and conferences/community work in one org shouldn’t feel like separate entities. If you’re going to do all of the things, I think they need to be better integrated.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

(By this I mean, the combination of sponsorship dollars and ticket sales)

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

I do know the ticket costs are subsidized by sponsors, but do they actually make any money on it? Or break even?

Just curious… of course the point doesn’t need to be making money, it serves an important purpose promoting Rails and the other efforts of the Foundation as you said.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

But I agree fundamentally that more focus on tech and less on conferences is probably better for a small org like RC overseeing such critical infrastructure.

They did take this step by scaling down to 1 conf per year, at least.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 8d

I think there’s space for a few of these big landmark conferences but they most likely won’t be a *highly profitable* endeavor again — although they don’t need to be.

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