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Episode 017: Ruby Together with André Arko and Carina C. Zona
00:16 – Welcome to “Cyberpunk Dystopia” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”
01:45 – Origin Stories
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective
André Arko: Falsehoods programmers believe
11:38 – Ruby Together; Membership and Benefits
22:06 – Ensuring the Future of Ruby
27:39 – Fair Pay and Getting Developers/Companies to Pay for Stuff
39:46 – How Does Bundler Work, Anyway? [blog post]
Andre Arko: How does Bundler work, anyway? @ RubyConf 2015
44:16 – Sharing and Reusing Code
52:26 – gemstash vs geminabox
Reflections:
Sam: Be a member-friend of Ruby Together!
Jessica: Ruby Together is an advancement in the software industry as a whole to form a trade organization that is a business related to supporting all businesses and people and making our software infrastructure maintainable.
Carina: OpenSSL is back to being insufficiently funded. Support other projects like Ruby Together too. See: Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure.
André: Hope that devs and companies that listen to this show with join Ruby Together.
Jay: It’s smart business for businesses to support organizations like Ruby Together. Software companies have large profit margins. Monies that would be spent on taxes can be put back into our community to support key infrastructure & tooling. My call to action is that our listeners support Ruby Together and get their companies to support Ruby Together and similar organizations.
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Special Guests: André Arko and Carina C. Zona.
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