We @ Wroc_❤.rb and we ❤ Vention Dention
We’re proud to announce wroc_love.rb 2012. The very first of such conferences in a beautiful city of Wrocław. What is this conference about?
A fresh Ruby conference organized by thriving local Ruby community. We’re keen on experimenting, value original ideas and diversity of opinions – as long as they’re backed with valid arguments.
You can meet : Georg, Bumi, Mike, Ralph, myself and our friend Nick.
We’re giving a talk
What is our talk about? About.. “Pit .. Brad Pit..Pit’s..ahhr! Just get out of the trap!!!” In our talk we will share some of the most interesting, absurd, or funny moments and insights we have experienced in past couple of years. As developers and business founders, we present the best of our own mistakes and show you how we got out of the pits we fell into. Believe us, we’ve been there as well and, hopefully, attending our talk will help you not make our mistakes. ;) It will be a serious fun! The talk will cover both technical and other subjects. Each mistake will get a 2-3 min coverage. Read more about us and our talk at the conference page and on their blog.
We love punk rock
Did you know we have our own band? No? Ok… now you know it! We’re proud to indroduce you to…
Vention Dention
Oh yeah. Vention Dention is on tour again… and we’re with them all the time. So the next gig’s are:
- wroc_love.rb, 10.-11. March 2012, Wrocław, Instytut Informatyki, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
- Nodecamp.eu (Details coming soon)
We’re planing some more gigs with them and everything will be announced on their homepage, on Railslove’s Vention Dention Homepage and via Twitter (@ventiondention). So stay tuned!
For now, just for you… Vention Dention:
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See you @ wroc_love.rb!
Backlash @ Robot Unicorn Invasion Party 2011
Help You need somebody; Help not just anybody!
Here at Railslove, we love building web applications. But aside from our core business, we also help other startups understand how the web works and what it means to run a web business — in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne. And since experienced Ruby on Rails developers are increasingly hard to find, we’ve started to offer apprenticeships, too.
One of our new partners is DailyDeal. We’ve done some beginners and advanced courses in Rails covering stuff like testing, building APIs, advanced JavaScript coding and general design and programming patterns in Ruby on Rails, etc.
Oliver Hepfner, Director Software Engineering of DailyDeal:
The training Railslove provided under the direction of Georg Leciejewski helped us understand advanced programming patterns in Ruby on Rails. Our developers were excited to get a hands-on introduction into Ruby on Rails.
Next month, we will launch a few more courses with DailyDeal and with other companies, like Adcloud GmbH in Germany. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Ralph and Georg: ralph AT railslove.com & gl AT salesking.eu & team AT railslove.com
The DevHouseFriday Chillout and the stolen Adcloud chair
First of all – a big, big thank you to @adcloud for hosting last DevHouseFriday. The location is perfect for such events – nice conference room, a terrace, free beer and some food. Thanks again!
The last DevHouseFriday had cool talks too: @tisba talked about loadtesting in the cloud @killerg was talking about his PDF-Dragon idea, we had a interesting talk about Scala and Closures for Java (by TJ) so, thanks again.
Unfortunately someone has stolen an @adcloud chair from the office. Turns out it was one of the Railslove guys. At the event only handful of Railslovers were present: Georg, Jan, Lars, Michael and Dirk…. Apparently, it was Jan. He got his punishment for this. Now this Chair is his burden to bear, and he has to take it on every other DevHouseFriday Chillout meetup.
So, see you next time, the next DevHouse Friday Chillout is on the October, 21th. Venue will be announced soon. Jan the Chairman will also be there to throw rocks at.
10th anniversary of Polish Wikipedia
Last weekend, as a long-standing Polish Wikipedian, I went to Poznań to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Polish Wikipedia.
The event started on Friday, September 23th and went on until Monday, September 26th, the actual date of establishing Polish Wikipedia. During that time, I’ve met old friends, colleagues, and newcomers to our project. The event took place in Multikino cinema in Shopping, Arts and Business Center “Stary Browar” (lit. “Old Brewery”), a place dating back to 1844, when Ambrosius Hugger, a Wirtembergian brewer, came to Poznań to start his brewery there.
Author: Radomil. License: CC-BY-SA
Almost 200 people came to celebrate with us and to participate in talks and presentations, making it the biggest Wikipedia meet-up in Poland so far. As usual, there were also guests from other countries: we were visited by Wikipedians from Germany, Czech, Belarus, Philippines, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. On Friday we spent time on getting together, drinking beer and organizing our stay in hostels.
The actual event started on Saturday with a discussion between founders of Polish Wikipedia, Paweł Jochym and Krzysztof Jasiutowicz, who told us about the beginnings of Polish Wikipedia and how they imagine its future. What’s worth noting this is also the first time these founders actually met each other. Before now they only collaborated on the encyclopedia online, and we’ve never seen them together during one conference. Other speakers included: Jan Wróbel (a contributor to a weekly newsmagazine Wprost), Piotr Marcinkowski (vicepresident of Library of University of Poznań), Sylwia Ufnalska (translator and science journalist), Jarosław Lipszyc (president of Modern Poland Foundation) and Edwin Bendyk (famous editor, blogger and journalist).
We also had a chance to see a documentary Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia, which explores the history and cultural implications of the online user-editable encyclopedia Wikipedia. The film attempts to answer the question of whether all kinds of individuals or just experts should be tasked with editing an encyclopedia.
Apart from that, there was a surprise made by Wikimedia Polska Association for all editors: a video with congratulations on the anniversary from famous Polish people:
Congratulations for our work were given from: Polish president Bronisław Komorowski, professor Jerzy Bralczyk, Bartłomiej Chaciński, Ilona Łepkowska, Marek Niedźwiecki, Krzysztof Skowroński, Mariusz Szczygieł and Ewa Wachowicz. President Komorowski encouraged to edit Wikipedia and share the knowledge, Mariusz Szczygieł and Marek Niedźwiecki admitted Wikipedia helps them in their work, and professor Bralczyk expressed his pride in Polish Wikipedia being one of the biggest language version of this encyclopedia.
Author: Polimerek. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
And thus, the event concluded on Sunday, with a group photo of all the attendees, after which all of us started going home, tired, but happy after seeing each other again, hoping we can make the best of this great project, to which we contributed over past decade. And that is what I wish to Polish Wikipedia for this and next decades to come! Let’s make the best encyclopedia ever!
Photos from the event are available on various free licenses on Wikimedia Commons in [[Category:10th birthday of Polish Wikipedia]]