Agenda

• review the presentation playbook that I have written up
• what other things to promote
• what other groups to connect with (e.g., geek girl dinner, hacker nest, hivewr)
• discuss goals for the year

Goals for the year to discuss

• finish finding presentations for the remaining 6 months
• find all the companies which use ruby
• find all the developers which use ruby, and have a public presence

Outstanding presentation contacts

• gitlab
• miovision corey_martella (is expecting me to contact him again)
• david_rapin, no response yet
• craig_lehmann about mruby Shopify (expecting me to contact him again)

Presentation contacts to consider

• eSentire @ralph_janke about how they are using ruby
• person at D2L who committed to the inspect-aws project and is doing Chef stuff
• myles braithwaite who works on discourse in toronto
• https://jvns.ca/
  • I think she is in Montreal, so funding might be important
  • she is builing a ruby benchmarking/performance system
• slate API system is used at hive.co
  • martin_gingras has attended
  • contact to ask if he knows if anyone would like to present about it and discuss their choices

List of companies to investigate

• xonify
• sandvine
• thedisplayrack.com
• runwaycrush.com
• blackberry
  • apparently using and contributing to gitlab
• visibull
  • https://twitter.com/visibull
• https://www.teachitcommunity.com/
• monolith interactive
• Dejero
• http://launch.grobo.ca/
  • there are hiring a RoR developer
  • https://www.waterlootechjobs.com/jobs/view/software-lead-full-stack-developer-2/
• exinda
• enflick
• Eventastic
• Vehikle
  • touch based about how much ruby they are doing and who their developers are
  • https://twitter.com/vehikl
  • https://vehikl.com/
  • https://github.com/vehikl
• Navi
  • might be using RubyOnRails, need to investigate
  • http://www.usenavi.com/
  • https://twitter.com/heynavi
• Chalk
  • https://www.chalk.com/
• thalmic
  • follow up to find out if they are using Ruby
• Rested
  • Salman Ansari [email protected] but the email does not work
  • Joan also interviewed witht them so I could follow up with her
• D2L
  • they might use Chef for some of their configuration