The 1st day of RubyKaigi 2011 (Morning)

The 1st day of RubyKaigi 2011 was held at here.

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In this morning, I attended these sessions:

• Opening
  Video 1 (Japanese)
  Video 2 (Japanese)
  
  • by Yoshimasa Takahashi
  • by Koichi Sasada
  • Opening speech for the last RubyKaigi
  • Introduction of contents at this year
• Keynote
  Video (English)
  • by Aaron Patterson
  • title: Ruby ruined my life
  • Boundaries between ruby and rails
  • Boundaries between the English and the Japanese
  • Ruby core team communicates with using ruby-core ML(English) and ruby-dev ML(Japanese). If someone attends only one side, there are boundary between him and the one attending only other side.
  • Ruby development is under the ownershipment of each modules.
  • Sometimes, waiting for fixing another module.
  • Some Ruby stdlib modules are coming from external repositories.
    • Are ruby core members comitting to those or not?
    • Are we really the same ruby team or not?
  • Rails development is NOT under the ownershipment.
  • All comitters can commit to all modules. In other words, all comitters can take responsibility for all modules.
  • It may be risky if anyone avoids to take that responsibilities.
  • But we Ruby team should be same with rails' responsibility.
  • "feel free to commit": it is important to release Ruby 1.9.3 on schedule.
  • "feel free to revert": we just do the communication.
  • There is a deep misunderstanding that Japanese core members is only communicating and deciding in ruby-dev.
  • Improve the stdlib fundamentally
    • make all stdlib changing to RubyGems
    • Rapid iteration
  • In Japan, there are many books about ruby - all around ruby matters.
  • But , in US, there are books about learning ruby or about Rails.
  • So some Rails users in US don't know the differences of ruby and rails.
  • I hope, in US, the lineup of Ruby book goes up to the same level with in Japan.
  • I want a book about ruby encoding.
  • I suggest that the error shoould occur when ascii-8 string and non-ascii-8 string are concatenated.
  • And I guess Dtrace becomes a default profiler on Ruby, if DTrace is supported by few OSs.
  • Ruby Ruined my life.
    • I had liked Perl
    • I had waited Perl6
    • But the manager had made me use Java
    • So I had hated Java
    • I met Ruby
    • I noticed no more Java, no more Perl6
    • I join to a startup with accepting pay cuts of 40%.
    • But now, I become a happy.
  • Thanks for all of Ruby community.

N.B. These summaries may be imprecise.
And I don't translate Q&As in the article because these are the gift for attendees in there.

After the Keynote, Aaron plays a heartwarming trick for his 2 friends. Let's look the movie, and Congrats!