Host
TeamGaia allowed us to use their studio. They are teens teaching teens how to make films about issues relevant to teens. Recently they were nominated for an Emmy, they lost out to a little production house named MTV (as in Video Killed the Radio Star). Special thanks to Shane for sticking around and running the A/V equipment.
Purpose
The purpose of this meeting was a meet and greet for local ruby/rails people.
Attendees
Jon Larkowski
Recently relocated from Madison, WI and living in Jax Beach. HashRocket Astronaut
Steven Bristol
Owner: Less Everything, their flagship product is Less Accounting
Corey Grusden
Louis Kemp
Came from vb6 land
Tom Rossi
molehill – powerfully small software
Chris Chandler
Professional Rails developer for negative 1.5 weeks.
Obie Fernandez
Smalltalk => Java => Thoughtworks => Rails => CityCliq => HashRocket
Author: The Rails Way
Series Editor: Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series
Rob Warner
Wes Gibbs
Chad Bearden
Suggested Micro-Volunteering application which has an analog in micro-lending.
Les Hill
Desi McAdam
Kevin Finn
molehill – powerfully small software
tick – time tracking software
Phil Langeberg
Started programming through Welding school
Sandro Turriate
Django Evangelist
PostgreSQL Evangelist
Ben McDonald
No pickle
Jim “Big Tiger” Remsik
Official RubyJax Photographer
HashRocket Street Team Coordinator
Recordkeeper until he can pawn it off on to some unsuspecting soul …
External Links
Lighthouse – hosted issue tracking app implemented in Ruby on Rails, svn integration
RailsMachine – Rails host used by some RubyJax members
EngineYard – Premium Rails host, useful if you don’t want to have to administer your own server.
