berlinjs/berlinjs.org — pull request #131 by skade (2014-05-21 20:22:38+00:00)
Title: Full metal Ruby talk proposal

I spend most of my internet years moderating online communities. First, I spend a few years moderating a metal board and chat, then I moved on and do the same thing for the german Ruby community. Lately, I have been organizing the eurucamp and JRubyConf.EU conferences, very much following models pioneered by jsconf.

This talk is about the lessons I learned both over time and by making the switch between two community topics. It is also about what I think can be expected from community organizers and what can be expected from them. It is also touches the importance of good moderation and its implementation. Finally, it provides an insight on how programming language communities are fundamentally about people and the conclusions of that realization.

It was originally held a Rubysauna in Oulu and Rug::B to great interest. It contains no line of Ruby code and is portable.