2012 Ruby Hero Awards
summary
Conference awards recognize six Ruby Heroes chosen from 834 nominations after peer discussion. Winners include contributors to Rack and Sinatra, a new Sinatra maintainer, a Travis CI co-founder who helped make hosted CI mainstream, authors of Celluloid IO and nio4r, JRuby/Nokogiri maintainers who improved Java embedding, long-time Rails i18n and RubyGems/documentation maintainers, and prolific community helpers on IRC and Stack Overflow. The process uses nominations, voting, deliberation, and public recognition with prizes and t-shirts; the initiatives cited are active and widely adopted.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:51Purpose and history
- 3:57Selection process
- 5:02Encouraging appreciation
- 5:45Award format
- 6:07Constantine H W
- 7:33Tony Arcieri
- 9:12Yoko Harada
- 10:18Sven Fuchs
- 12:36Frederick Cheung
- 14:02Eric Hodel
- 16:08Closing
