Lessons Learned from a Growing Project
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2010 -- Wellington, New Zealand
Date: 2014-12-08

Presenter(s): Michael Koziarski
URL: http://2010.linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/50184

In less than 5 years Ruby on Rails went from a tiny project with a handful of contributors to being one of the leading web development frameworks. Ideas and techniques which were once attacked as "ridiculous" and "only useful for toy sites" have now been adopted by even our most vociferous opponents.The growth of the project hasn't been smooth and the transition from 'rebel insurgent' to 'establishment player' has brought its own set of challenges to the community.In this talk I'll cover a brief history of the project, with a focus on what we've learned about what does, and doesn't, drive technology adoption. All along I'll also focus on what does, and doesn't, foster a helpful and friendly community.These lessons should be useful to advocates of all kinds of open source software, not just web development frameworks.

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