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Organizers

Steve Berry
Steve Berry

Steve is a designer of things - most of the time they are on the internet. He is an advocate of playing ping pong at work.

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Jesse Chan-Norris
Jesse Chan-Norris

Jesse Chan-Norris is the co-founder of Indaba Music, trustee of the New York chapter of the Awesome Foundation and CTO of the Institute on Higher Awesome Studies. His eclectic career also includes stints as a theatrical lighting designer and management consultant. He enjoys taking photographs and riding his bike around NYC.

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Cory Forsyth
Cory Forsyth

Cory co-founded the hyperlocal news site outside.in in 2006 and runs the monthly Ruby Happy Hour in New York. Before that he attended the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and worked on technology-meets-culture projects like the Popularity Dialer and Twitter Vote Report. He lives in Brooklyn with two roommates and two crazy dogs.

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Bryan Helmkamp
Bryan Helmkamp

Bryan Helmkamp is a Rails software engineer in New York. During his three years of professional Ruby/Rails programming he has been continually active in the community by helping organizing events like Rails Day 2007 and the annual Gotham Ruby Conference (GORUCO).

codeclimate.com brynary
Francis Hwang
Francis Hwang

Francis Hwang is a writer and software engineer. An active member of the Ruby community, he was the founder of NYC.rb, founding organizer of GoRuCo, and a four-time RubyConf speaker. He is currently enjoying his Brooklyn-based consulting lifestyle.

fhwang.net fhwang
Josh Knowles
Josh Knowles

Josh is an accomplished developer, trainer and consultant with over 10 years of professional development experience. Last seen consulting throughout the country for both early stage startups, as well as large international organizations, he brings with him a strong background in Agile Development practices, a passion for Open Source development, as well as a heavy dose of sarcastic humor and an unlimited supply of West Coast charm.

joshknowles.com joshknowles
Rebecca Miller-Webster
Rebecca Miller-Webster

Rebecca Miller-Webster is a Ruby and Javascript developer. She spent the last 10 years building software for large corporations, non-profits, and start-ups, including as VP of Engineering for an early-stage start up in NYC. Rebecca holds a MS in Computer Science and a BA in Women and Gender Studies. In her spare time, she makes Patterned, music, and jewelry. Rebecca lives in Sunnyside, Queens with her husband and black pug.

rebeccamiller-webster.com rmw
Miriam Ryan
Miriam Ryan

Miriam specializes in growing the Ruby community in NYC.

Stephen Schor
Stephen Schor

Stephen Schor is currently a software engineer at MovableInk where he writes Ruby. He enjoys writing gems with names, like "white_castle", and has achieved his dream of an ascii-art, command line interface for Flickr and RESTful web services for movie spoilers.

stephenschor.com nodanaonlyzuul
Robbie Clutton
Robbie Clutton

Robbie is an Englishman in New York and a software engineer at Pivotal Labs having moved from the Guardian in London.

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