Spread out the good novel
Posted by Massimo Sgrelli in
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RailsConf is over and I was so lucky to be there this year too. GotThingsDone.com presence at the all-important convention about Ruby on Rails has been centered around spreading the good novel” out all over the world. Let me explain you why.
We were pretty impressed last year discovering that quite a few people were covering the event professionally with videos, interviews and keynotes streaming. The most part of the attendees having a blog were summarizing the convention in real time on their web sites and they did a good job, but I soon realized people want to see their heroes, want to hear their voices. Dancan made amazing pictures and he shared them on Flickr, but you know, they cannot speak.
So, this year we decided that Rails is too important to not have any good video interview to show the people who were not as lucky as we were. We wanted to show what a revolution was taking place in Portland.
So, in the last few days preceding the conference the crew at GotThingsDone.com and I planned to interview some of the people we thought are leading the Rails scenario right now. We aren’t professional in producing videos, but we made our best to share the intense moments we had there.
So I’d like to say thank you to the people we interviewed, because they were so patient and kind with us. Thanks to David Heinemeier Hansson, Joel Splosky, Jeremy Kemper, Ola Bini, John Straw, Ryan Singer, Rick Olson, Chris Wanstrath and Geoffrey Grosenbach.
And then thank you to Annalisa, Sandro and Joe for their wonderful job.
At Portland we were about 1,800 people. Right now our interviews have been viewed more than 7,300 times :)
