Summary: Panelists Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp) James Edward Gray II (blog twitter github) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Dr. Nic Williams (twitter github blog EngineYard) Peter Cooper (site twitter github The Ruby Show Ruby Inside) Items discussed in this episode Ruby distributions Why haven’t companies sponsored core Ruby AT&T Interactive sponsoring Aaron Patterson’s work on Ruby & Rails Engine Yard sponsors or sponsored Rubinius & JRuby & Rails Company Benefits Expertise of OSS developers Attracting awesome employees Developer Benefits Work on their passions Higher level of engagement Possible Problems Community can become dependent on corporate support Can damage reputation Can cause problems moving forward Heroku hiring Matz SQLite has several Sponsors SQLite forces all code into the public domain Corporate fork (Twitter forking Ruby Enterprise Edition) Ruby Enterprise Edition forked from Ruby by Phusion Matz Interview on Heroku Better process Corporate vs Community Kerfuffles What should Ruby do with its new resources? Web based VM performance features? Ruby-spec Picks Cassandra (Chuck) Stargate SG1 (netflix)(Chuck) Anti-pick TK (Peter) The Ruby Programming Language (Peter) Code Brawl (Peter) Ruby Patches by Michael Edgar (Peter) HATEOAS (Josh) Steve Klabnik’s write up on HATEOAS (Josh) Blendtec blender (Josh) iterm2 (James) Netflix (James) Star Trek: The Next Generation (netflix) (James) PostgreSQL (Nic) In Plain Sight (netflix) (Nic) .rvmrc (Nic) Living in America (Nic)
