May 4th, 2009
I surely don’t have to introduce last week’s Ruby/Rails earthquake to anyone by now - it has been covered by a boatload of blogs (including this one), analyzed, argued over, rebutted, reddited, dugg and whatnot - suffice to say, it’s time to move on. It was a rather unpleasant drama piece, but fortunately it shed light on some problems the Ruby/Rails communities are facing, and (besides the ensuing trollfest and pointless arguing) it had a pleasant side-effect: a handful of people started to discuss how things could be made better, creating a small (and growing) but determined community: RailsBridge!
Say Hello to RailsBridge!
RailsBridge’s mission is “To create an inclusive and friendly Ruby on Rails community” (check out details on the homepage). Everyone is welcome to participate - with ideas, suggestions, design, code, new project proposals or just about anything that would make Rails a more open and accepted technology and community.
It’s very important to understand that we are not trying to form yet another oh-my-god-we-are-so-awesome Rails group of uber-hackers which looks down on everyone not in it’s ranks - for two reasons, at the very least:
- RailsBridge is open to anyone! - you don’t have to be a Rails core commiter, coder with 20 years of experience or a renowned Rails blogger - it’s enough if you’d like to make the Ruby/Rails scene more welcoming in any way
- We are trying to promote the exact opposite philosophy - we acknowledge that Rails’s image is somewhat tarnished because of the “rock star” attitude and we’d like to show by our actions that we are working on this and will eventually turn Ruby and Rails into a very welcoming and enjoyable community
Surely, this is quite a venture - our mission statement sounds great, but everyone can do the talking on just about whichever Gordian Knot out there, be it world hunger, world peace or friendly Rails. We’ll have to demonstrate that we mean serious business, and that’s why we need you - everyone’s ideas, insights and help matters! Check out the RailsBridge homepage to learn more about what are we up to and how to get involved.
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May 4th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Nice initiative! Will check it out, I think it is a very good idea.
May 4th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Nice way to show that Rails (itself) is not part of the problem, but part of the solution.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
:: high five :: All of these blog posts and whining with no actual efforts to change things were ridiculous.
May 4th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
In a little effort to build a bridge to the potential women rails devs, I made this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juice10/3501376901/
It combines the old (bit of the rock star attitude) with the new (reaching out to new people in a friendly yet commical way).
And it takes the micky out of the whole Rails/DHH is women unfriendly.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:23 am
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May 17th, 2009 at 3:59 am
I had a temptation to join while reading your blog post, but you lost me with “anti-rock-star” piece
(you’ve been on my Euruko talk, right? :D)
January 19th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Exactly what I needed for my paper. Thank you very much. I will post a link back to you when I have it done (maybe before spring).
April 27th, 2010 at 6:18 am
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April 27th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Камрад шарит в теме
April 27th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
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April 28th, 2010 at 4:09 am
В целом, плохая статья
May 17th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Писака убей себя
May 18th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Автор респект
May 18th, 2010 at 10:24 am
В целом, неожиданная работа