Railsconf 2020 Virtual Hallway

2020-04-29

I love Rubyconf and Railsconf. I’ve attended every one in the last 7 years and was super excited to learn that Railsconf would be held in my home town of Portland this year.

/play sadtrombone

Alas, the virus struck and Railsconf was cancelled. Railsconf 2020.2 Couch Edition was announced but my favorite part of conferences is the hallway track: meeting old friends in person, making new friends, talking about our lives and crazy ideas we have to make Ruby and open source better.

The Virtual Hallway Track™

I thought: if we can have a virtual conf, why not have a virtual hallway track? Jump into a video chat with other Rubyists, introduce yourself and tell us something:

• Which videos have you watched and enjoyed?
• What’s your latest or favorite Ruby gem you’ve discovered?
• What’s a programming accomplishment you’re proud of?
• How has your life changed with the virus?

I’ve created a few video chat rooms, each room has a 12 person limit. Follow me on Twitter if you want to get reminders and updates during the day.

Tues, May 5th all day, drop in and drop out whenever, hallways are random!

• whereby.com/railsconf
• whereby.com/sidekiq

Honeybadger is running another virtual hallway here:

• whereby.com/honeybadger-io

If the first room is full, jump into the next one! I will try to be in a room at the top of each hour during my work day (9am-4pm Pacific).

Etiquette

Here’s some tips to make the rooms as useful as possible:

• If you want to lurk, that’s OK, just turn off your camera and mute your mic so you don’t distract others.
• If a room is getting full, please drop out or jump into another one unless you are actively participating.
• Use AirPods or a headset microphone if possible. Mute your microphone when you are not speaking.

Good luck and have fun!