Videos & Slides: Stories in Open Source

Back last year in June 2023 I was lucky to speak at lambda days 2023 about one of my favorite topics: Open Source! And it’s not just Open Source, but it’s my story in Open Source and my journey throughout Open Source – so far. As such, it’s by far the most personal talk I’ve ever given. So, within the talk you won’t just learn about how to run Open Source projects, how to contribute to Open Source projects and how to get better at something – but you’ll also learn about where I went for ERASMUS, my connection to Ukraine and the health situation of bunnies. I swear it makes sense in context!

You can also find the slides at speakerdeck, slideshare or as a PDF

Abstract

What’s it like to work on Open Source projects? They’re all the same aren’t they? No, they’re not – the longer I worked on Open Source the more I realize how different the experience is for each one of them. Walk with me through some stories that happened to me in Open Source and let’s see what we can take away.

Talk video: Building Crystal in Crystal

I gave a rather spontaneous talk at the July edition of the Ruby User Group Berlin (which I organize). One of the speakers cancelled so I took it upon myself to do a replacement talk. As this was the morning of the user group I had little time. So, what do you do? I skipped my lunch break and then used the one hour I had to prepare the talk you can see embedded below. The talk is mainly about crystal, an interesting compiled programming language where the language is implemented in itself. So what better way to learn crystal than adding new functionality to crystal?

You can see me giving speaker tips, while breaking them! And then trying to do an unprepared live coding session, which fails (duuuhh surprise!). It was good fun either way, many people enjoyed the talk. Also here is the correct implementation of drop_while in crystal.

If you are interested, the other talks from the RUG::B are also online on vimeo. You can learn about Enumerator, Smalltalk and then lots of things during the lightning talks!

Slides

• PDF
• Slideshare

Video: Shoes talk at JRubyConf 2013

Finally the video of my talk at JRubyConf 2013 in Berlin is online. It was my first full length talk at a conference, I gave it almost a year ago – some difficulties with the video material and getting it online caused this delay. Nonetheless it is finally here! The talk was titled “Shoes – the Ruby Way to GUI applications” and now  you can go ahead and watch it or you can watch all the other amazing talks.

While that is a bit old, some of the information isn’t up to date anymore. Most importantly about what still needs to be implemented as we made tremendous progress so far. We have a preview release and are happily looking into the future 🙂

Shoes Lightning Talk

So I just gave a lightning talk about shoes. Here are the slides for talk, it was (mostly) a stripped down version of an introduction talk to shoes, which I gave ate Ruby User Group Berlin.

So here are the slides:

• PDF
• speakerdeck
• slideshare

Cheers and thanks for wrov_love.rb – it was a cool conference!

Tobi