Sarah Mei of RailsBridge on Ruby Rogues

[Brendan Kemp]

I listened to the Ruby Rogues with Sarah Mei last night, and learned
about a number of Ruby related development programs. They had a nice
discussion of why we should be talking about these quality-of-
community issues (because the community is one of the best features of
Ruby). Then also mentioned a few cool things:

The anti-harassment policy at Steel City Ruby Conf, and the ways the
organizers created a noticeably more inclusive vibe there:
http://steelcityrubyconf.org/policies#antiharassment

Then, also at Steel City Ruby Conf—something I've been thinking about
for a long time—a primer on social justice for programmers. It was a
talk given by Steve Klabnik & Lindsey Bieda, and called "Anti-
Oppression 101". I couldn't find a video from Steel City Ruby Conf,
but here is a version of that talk at Ignite RailsConf 2012:
https://vimeo.com/41237183
I find that really heartening that there is space in our community to
talk about social justice.

Finally, Sarah spoke highly of a book about leaderless organizations:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Organizations/dp/1591841437
It sounds like it might be highly relevant to our goals of being
successful and non-autocratic. I think I'm going to read it next.

I recommend listening to the episode itself too:
http://rubyrogues.com/066-rr-rails-bridge-with-sarah-mei/

- Brendan

[Daniel Choi]

Thanks for all those great links Brendan. I ordered the Starfish book &
I'm going to listen to the talks. I caught the Sarah Mei interview a
week ago & loved how receptive the Rogues were toward her and RailsBridge.

The BostInno news site posted about us today, and also embedded the
diversity outreach video from Boston Python that inspired us.

http://bostinno.com/2012/09/12/want-more-women-to-code-this-meetup-brings-women-in-to-teach-them/

Dan



On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:38 PM, Brendan Kemp <bre...@brendandeankemp.com> wrote:

> from: Brendan Kemp <bre...@brendandeankemp.com>
> date: Wed, Sep 12 12:38 PM -07:00 2012
> to: RailsBridge Boston <railsbr...@googlegroups.com>
> reply-to: railsbr...@googlegroups.com
> subject: Sarah Mei of RailsBridge on Ruby Rogues

>
> I listened to the Ruby Rogues with Sarah Mei last night, and learned
> about a number of Ruby related development programs. They had a nice
> discussion of why we should be talking about these quality-of-
> community issues (because the community is one of the best features of
> Ruby). Then also mentioned a few cool things:
>
> The anti-harassment policy at Steel City Ruby Conf, and the ways the
> organizers created a noticeably more inclusive vibe there:
> http://steelcityrubyconf.org/policies#antiharassment
>

> Then, also at Steel City Ruby Confsomething I've been thinking about
> for a long timea primer on social justice for programmers. It was a

> talk given by Steve Klabnik & Lindsey Bieda, and called "Anti-
> Oppression 101". I couldn't find a video from Steel City Ruby Conf,
> but here is a version of that talk at Ignite RailsConf 2012:
> https://vimeo.com/41237183
> I find that really heartening that there is space in our community to
> talk about social justice.
>
> Finally, Sarah spoke highly of a book about leaderless organizations:
> http://www.amazon.com/The-Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Organizations/dp/1591841437
> It sounds like it might be highly relevant to our goals of being
> successful and non-autocratic. I think I'm going to read it next.
>
> I recommend listening to the episode itself too:
> http://rubyrogues.com/066-rr-rails-bridge-with-sarah-mei/
>
> - Brendan
>

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