ROSS Conf Amsterdam

The European Ruby Open Source Software conference

May 11-12, 2018 @ Publitas, Zeeburgerpad 5, 1018 AH Amsterdam

ROSS conf Amsterdam gives open source software maintainers the platform to introduce their project to an audience of first time as well as existing contributors. After 15 minute introductions to the project, pressing issues and requests, the conference day is reserved for hands-on programming (or contributing through updating documentation or adding artwork!) and pairing with the maintainers. To conclude the hackathon the maintainers present data on bugs fixed, and pull requests merged.

Projects

exercism

exercism.io is a programming exercise platform with over 350 contributors primarily maintained by Katrina Owen, a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner.

RVM

RVM was the first version manager allowing you to switch between Ruby versions and separate project gems. Today RVM is still leading in this area, with Michal Papis working on version 2.0.

Homebrew

Homebrew is package manager for macOS written in Ruby and will be represented by core team member Alyssa Ross.

Support Central

Support Central is and open source aggregator tool to easily handle both community and commercial support in a central interface, by the makers of Phusion Passenger.

Foreman

Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers and will be presented by Tomer Brisker, one of the core-contributors.

WeTransfer API

Every month, 40 million people rely on WeTransfer to share their creative ideas. At ROSS conf WeTransfer provides early access to their (soon public) API and welcome sample apps and contributions to their docs.

Schedule

Friday May 11

18:00 - 19:00 Start pre-event
19:00 - 20:30 Host, maintainer talks
20:30 - 21:00 Q&A, Drinks & Networking

Saturday May 12

10:00 - 10:30 Start & coffee
10:30 - 12:00 Break out in groups
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 Break out in groups
15:00 - 15:30 Snacks
15:30 - 18:30 Break out in groups
18:30 - 19:30 FOOD
19:30 - 20:30 Maintainer presentations, closing notes

Team

Rayta van Rijswijk

Rayta van Rijswijk

Developer at Young Capital, Organizer Amsterdam.rb
Floor Drees

Floor Drees

Developer Advocate at Phusion Passenger
Lieke Boon

Lieke Boon

Community Manager at GitHub
Sebastian Gräßl

Sebastian Gräßl

Software Engineer at Red Hat

Questions, Concerns or Help needed?

You can reach out to hello@rossconf.io and approach each of our team members at the event.

Location

Publitas
Zeeburgerpad 5
1018 AH Amsterdam
Netherlands

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