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My Madison Ruby Story

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Re: My Madison Ruby Story

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Post by prestonaustin »

Never underestimate the power of bacon to bring together the technical with the aught to be technical. I've heard nothing but good things here in Madison about the conference as a way to broaden the appeal the ruby community seems to have for folks who fear approaching development.

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Post by the-come-ons »

I, too, was skipping out on the technical panel and was in the room when Wendy's name was called. It was quite humorous to see her realize it was her name that was called. She said "that's me", got up and ran out of the room in excitement yelling “WAAAAIT!"

I'm happy to have that memory and to have this blog post to remind me of one of the many great parts of the Madison ruby conference. I am definitely returning next year! Maybe I will win the gift certificate this time...

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Post by jremsikjr »

HeXetic wrote: post #3

Wow the original title for this submission, "How to Recruit Women into Tech: A Madison Ruby case study", completely missed the mark and I am glad it was changed.

I lifted it from a tweet describing the article from a third party but, you're right.

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Post by simon »

I work as a Java developer here in Mad Town, but I must say that I know some really nice, welcoming and seriously excellent Ruby programmers here.

Glad to hear that my impression of the local Rubyists was not wrong.

Mmmmm ... Wisconsin cheese is awesome! :-)

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Post by patja »

I started reading with that feeling of dread that this was going to be another indictment of tech conference misogyny that would make me feel sad for the world, my daughters, and our profession. How delightful to hear this inspirational response to a tech conference experience!

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Post by egiva »

The keyword density and some of the keyword repetition for this article makes me suspicious. Not questioning the experience - I read it and it sounded great. Just analyzing the most common words and phrases used though - so you decide: 'Ruby' - 19 times (~2.4% density) 'madison' - 15 (1.87%) 'madison ruby' - 12 (1.50%) 'tech' - 13 (1.62%) 'conference' - 12 (1.5%)
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