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Golden GateRuby Wrap
Content rom Golden Gate RubyCon, the rst Rubyshow in the birthplace o the web revolution.
 
About the OrganizersAbout The City
LEAH SILBER
I you’ve been to a Ruby conerence in the last year or two, you’ve likelymet Leah. When she’s not traveling the world seeking out the perectconerence, she’s here in San Francisco running Community Relations andMarketing atEngine Yard.
 JOSH SUSSER
Josh likes to say that Ruby is the love child o Lisp and Smalltalk, raisedby Perl the eccentric nanny. AtPivotal Labshe spends most o his timedeveloping Rails web applications or clients, and is a requent contributorto Rails. You can nd his blog atblog.hasmanythrough.com.San Francisco is the home o, o course, landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge. More importantly,it’s a hub o technological advancement and experimentation.The city o San Francisco is lled to the brim with well known and hush hush Ruby and Rails shops,making a dent in the technological ecosystem in Silicon Valley. User Groups, Meetups, Hackests --we’ve got it all. I you haven’t been, do make a point to visit. And say hello while you’re here!
 
About the WrapAbout the PeopleA Message rom the OrganizersA Shoutout to Some Friends
Organizing Golden Gate RubyCon has been challenging, time-consuming, and best o all, rewarding.We set out to make a contribution to the Ruby conerence circuit, and to the communityin general, and have surpassed even our own ideas o how incredible things would be.The speakers were great, the volunteers and sponsors were great, and o course, theattendees.We couldn’t have done this without every one o you, and hope you’ll join us again nextyear or a bigger and better Version 2.0. Leah and JoshThanks to the volunteers who were with us rom thebeginning!Melissa Sheehan
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Bruce Williams
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Georey Grosenbach
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Meghann Millard
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And thanks, o course, to all those volunteers whohelped on the day-o - see page 9 or the ull list.The
Golden Gate Ruby Wrap
intends to capture some o the con-tent rom the conerence, or those o you who missed it, or thoseo you who need a reminder.Thanks to the speakers, attendees and writers or their contribu-tions, and to the sponsors who helped und everything.Event photographs are courtesy o our event photographer, AndyDelcambre.For questions, comments or corrections emailwrap@gogaruco.com.While the speakers contribute the most to a conerence publicly,the attendees make a show what it is. That said, they don’t gener-ally get enough attention!That’s why we’ve decided to ocus some attention on
them
. The
Golden Gate Ruby Wrap
eatures several contributions andopinions rom attendees.It also eatures some results rom our attendee survey. Check them out on page 18.
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