GORUCO is a one day, single track, polyglot conference in New York City

Saturday, June 24th 2017

About

We’re rebuilding GORUCO as a polyglot conference that emphasizes and embodies the best of Ruby’s practices, values, and community. This is an opportunity to extend Ruby’s reach, to pull more people into Ruby’s orbit who share our values, and to keep Ruby alive even as its community members use a much broader set of tools and languages.

Schedule

9:00 AM — 10:00 AM

Registration

Doors open, get your conference badge and some breakfast

10:00 AM — 10:30 AM

The Rubyist's Illustrated Rust Adventure Survival Guide

Liz Baillie

10:35 AM — 11:05 AM

Optimizing for API consumers with GraphQL

Brooks Swinnerton

11:20 AM — 11:30 AM

11:35 AM — 11:45 AM

Object Oriented Thinking with Elixir and OTP

Ryan Findley

11:50 AM — 12:00 PM

Developer Productivity Engineering

Panayiotis Thomakos

12:05 PM — 12:35 PM

SQL to NoSQL to NewSQL and the rise of polyglot persistence

Paul Dix

Lunch

12:35 PM - 2:00 PM

Difficult Conversations

Adam Cuppy

2:10 PM — 2:40 PM

What I Learned to Love About Ruby When I Switched to Python

Lauren Ellsworth

2:50 PM — 3:20 PM

Front-End Sadness to Happiness: The React on Rails Story

Justin Gordon

3:35 PM — 4:05 PM

Shaving my head made me a better programmer

Alex Qin

4:10 PM — 4:20 PM

4:25 PM — 4:35 PM

Scars: On handling adversity

Ross Kaffenberger

4:40 PM — 4:50 PM

How to load 1m lines of Ruby in 5s

Andrew Metcalf

5:15 PM — 5:45 PM

Type. Context.

Sam Phippen

5:50 PM — 6:20 PM

After Party!

6:30 PM — 8:30 PM

Speakers

Lauren Ellsworth

@redyaffle

What I Learned to Love About Ruby When I Switched to Python

When I switched from a Ruby based company to a Python based company, thi...

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Paul Dix

@pauldix

SQL to NoSQL to NewSQL and the rise of polyglot persistence

The last ten years have brought many new developments in databases. Prev...

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Alex Qin

@alexqin

Shaving my head made me a better programmer

How do perceptions and stereotypes affect those in software and on engin...

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Ryan Findley

@neomindryan

Object Oriented Thinking with Elixir and OTP

Processes in Erlang / Elixir resemble objects in many ways. Some even ar...

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Liz Baillie

@_lbaillie

The Rubyist's Illustrated Rust Adventure Survival Guide

Programming is an adventure, often more harrowing than it has to be. If ...

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Adam Cuppy

@AdamCuppy

Difficult Conversations

It’s never easy to have a tough conversations, and they never go away. T...

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Verónica López

@maria_fibonacci

Beyond OSS

As software engineers, we're constantly encouraged to contribute to Open...

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Rebecca Miller-Webster

@rmillerwebster

Trust & Teams

Trust is at the core of whether we are happy at work or not. Trust is at...

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Brooks Swinnerton

@bswinnerton

Optimizing for API consumers with GraphQL

GraphQL is an exciting new query language that's transforming the way we...

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Panayiotis Thomakos

@panthomakos

Developer Productivity Engineering

Ruby is often praised for being a happy language. For highly motivated d...

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Ross Kaffenberger

@rossta

Scars: On handling adversity

As much as we'd like our programming careers to be filled with great suc...

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Sam Phippen

@samphippen

Type. Context.

Every language has at least one big idea behind it. In Ruby we cherish t...

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Justin Gordon

@railsonmaui

Front-End Sadness to Happiness: The React on Rails Story

Standard Rails development made me happy like no other programming parad...

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Andrew Metcalf

@agmetcalf

How to load 1m lines of Ruby in 5s

Applications written in Ruby, Python and several other popular dynamic l...

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Location

The conference and afterparty will be held at the beautiful Pier 60, located at Chelsea Piers in New York City.

Background

We are incredibly proud of the program that we've put together and think that it reflects the state of the Ruby community as it stands today.

Mike Dalessio, one of organizers, summed up those thoughts in his Medium post titled simply, "ruby values." In reflecting on GORUCO's diverse program this year, including talks on Python, Elixir, Go, and Rust, and non-technology talks on topics like trust, human-to-human interactions, verbal communication, and how people organize themselves into teams, Mike says:

The attendees of GORUCO are, more and more, using other languages to grow software. Famous Rubyists have gone on to influence the development of Rust, Elixir, Crystal, Go, and many other languages, libraries and frameworks. For me personally, this has included rewriting most of Cloud Foundry’s core components from Ruby into Go over the last three years; and led a colleague to write the Ruby-like BDD tools Ginkgo and Gomega.

Ruby-the-tribe is reaching out to dozens of other communities, and spreading our values to users of other languages. This is wonderful; this is how Ruby is spreading and giving birth to new communities.

Organizers

Austen Ito

@austenito

Jesse Chan-Norris

@jcn

Joe Leo

@jleo3

Luke Melia

@lukemelia

Mike Dalessio

@flavorjones

Raquel Hernandez

@raqueldotnyc

Ross Cooperman

@rosscooperman

Vanessa Sant'anna

@vsanta

Jerred Cook

@jerredcook

Rocio Delgado

@rokkzy

Lydia Stepanek

@LydiaStepanek

Sebastian Delmont

@sd

Robert Jones

@robbieejones

Matt Rothenberg

@mattrothenberg