Our goal is to ensure a good environment to learn and discuss. We love confronting ideas, even when it’s uncomfortable to the Ruby status-quo. We love experimenting with new formats of talks and discussions, like fights, fishbowls and crowd-moderated discussion panels. Everything that can inspire the Ruby programmers is more than welcome at our conference. Let us know, what you’d be interested in experimenting with!

The main goal of the conference is very clear. We want to help Ruby professionals become better at what they do. wroc_love.rb serves best to people who are already fluent with Ruby. The ideas presented at our conference are very advanced. They are meant to inspire the way we write code, the way we help our clients and users. It’s not uncommon for us to present you ideas that come from the Java and .NET worlds, we believe that their ideas can have a great influence on our community. There are good reasons, why our conference is called “the best Java conference in the Ruby world”.

Ike is a software engineering researcher with passion for computer science and its applications in modern day-to-day programming. His wast background includes such topics as conversational, type and aircraft designs.

I'm a software engineer at Red Hat working on the ManageIQ open-source cloud and infrastructure management project. I started with Ruby in 2011 when my roommate at the university gave me a "Rails for Dummies" book.

Victor 'zverok' Shepelev is Ukrainian programmer and poet with more than fifteen years of programming experience and ten years of Ruby programming. He is a huge fan of open source and open data, author of multiple Ruby gems (made it to Ruby News Weekly several times!) and creator of molybdenum project, known for reality — an early effort of making entire real-world data computable and accessible from Ruby. His project was selected for Ruby Association Grant-2015 . Currently, Victor is proud to work at VerbIT.ai, and also mentors programming students. The latter includes being a mentor for SciRuby (Scientific Ruby Foundation for Google Summer of Code 2016-2018.

I'm Hanami core developer and an indie developer from Moscow. I work on different open source projects and builds Space-Rocket ships at night.

I have been a professional programmer since 2006. I've worked both ends of the abstraction hierarchy, from device drivers to web applications. I've run my own company and was lead "vocalist" in a punk rock band in high school. I've been working exclusively on microservice-based projects for a few years and am writing a book for The Pragmatic Bookshelf entitled "Practical Microservices: Build Event-Driven Architectures with Event Sourcing and CQRS".

Norbert Wójtowicz is a recovering empty-stack developer, whose magic 8-ball predicts that Clojure and ClojureScript will be in your future toolbox. You can find his code and ramblings in various corners of the internet, under the felicitous handle @pithyless.

Ruby/Rails freelancer with a strong interest in functional programming and applying its techniques to object oriented code. Former active OSS contributor, author of various small Ruby gems. Merb, DataMapper and ROM core team alumnus.

Markus is the author of mutant, a mutation testing tool for Ruby. He is a self defined dynamic language exorcist, specializing in rescuing bloated software of business value. ROM / DataMapper alumnus.

Chris Seaton is a Research Manager at the Virtual Machine Group in Oracle Labs, where he leads the work to implement Ruby using the next generation of Java Virtual Machine technology and other projects, and a Visitor at the University of Manchester. Before this he completed a PhD at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Doctor Mikel Luján, where he researched programming languages and irregular parallelism, and he earned an MEng at the University of Bristol on languages with mutable syntax and semantics. Between his undergraduate degree and starting his PhD he commissioned into the British Army, serving in training and operations in the UK and around the world. In his spare time he's now a captain in the Cheshire Yeomanry squadron of the Queen's Own Yeomanry, Cheshire's historic reserve light cavalry squadron. He used to develop an award winning medical app that is the first app regulated as a medical device in the UK, and ran a consultancy to help clients such as the NHS to develop revolutionary medical software.

Inspiration and Safety

Conferences are not only about listening. Most of the value comes from talking to each other. Our mission is to create an inspiring, thoughtful, creative and safe space to everyone involved. The venue is known to be of good quality - it’s a University of Wroclaw building. It has many ways to ensure safety of all the people inside like monitoring and special security people. It is needless to say that this conference is a place for good people, only. Good people respect each other, are nice to each other, smile, and make everyone (without exceptions) feel comfortable.

Conference Code of Conduct

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We are expecting cooperation from all participants to help ensuring a safe environment for everybody.

Need Help? As part of our goal, we’re dedicated to react to all situations that we’ll be notified, ideally directly to us.

There will be a special team of volunteers who will be visible during the conference (If you want to join the team, please let us know). Student volunteers are here to help find your way around and resolve any problem.

Quick Version

Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion (or lack thereof). We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organisers.

The Less Quick Version

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Sponsors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, sponsors should not use sexualised images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualised clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualised environment.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately.

Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance and participation.

We expect participants to follow these rules at conference and workshop venues and conference-related social events.

Original source and credit: http://2012.jsconf.us/#/about & The Ada Initiative

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