Today we welcome Amanda Perino, the executive director at The Rails Foundation.

We talk to Amanda about the foundation, her role and how she become the director. We talk about differences between working with developers and non-developers. We talk about the challenges of the foundation in reaching junior developers, creating better documentation and remote work.

We also discuss the outcomes of the Rails Community Survey results and the state of the community.

We had a great time and I think it is a must listen for any Rails developer.

Show Notes

Rails Foundation: https://rubyonrails.org/foundation
Reach the Rails Foundation at: foundation@rubyorails.org
Rails World 2024 playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NCVaacRqIioSUyRS4W0YX?si=5ffff9d12b474ee1
Dance with Somebody (current song obsession): https://open.spotify.com/track/0t8h41n20K1BkByBDqWAoN?si=32e563e618f34e9b
For those looking to review the Documentation PRs, they can check the 'Rails Foundation' tag in the Rails repo on GitHub: https://github.com/rails/rails/pulls?q=is:pr+is:open+label:%22rails+foundation%22

Percentage of new Rails developers at Rails World 2024:
7.38% had less than 1 year of experience
19% had 2-4 years of experience

So not a bad turnout for new Rails devs!

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🇬🇧/🇺🇸 In our first English podcast, we are joined by the one and only Chris Oliver from Go Rails, Jumpstart, Hatchbox.io and the Remote Ruby podcast. Recorded at the Rails World conference!

Chris has been awarded the first 'Rails Luminary' award at Rails World for his contributions to the community.

We were lucky enough to spend an hour talking to Chris. We talk about some things he hasn't mentioned before. We speak to him about how he stays up to date about all the Rails changes, his brief experience with Python, his early days as a Rails developing student, refactoring, his evolving business and educating junior developers.

We had a great time, and we hope you do too.

Thanks to Buzzsprout for providing us with the booth.

https://gorails.com/
https://hatchbox.io/
https://jumpstartrails.com/
https://remoteruby.com/

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