Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony

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Six community members receive Ruby Hero awards for concrete contributions: maintenance and features for webrat, the eventmachine core and AMQP/XMPP drivers, the Windows one‑click Ruby installer, thinking sphinx full‑text search, a rebuilt DataMapper test suite and Rails compatibility work, and prolific educational writing plus libraries like HTTParty. Past winners (Yehuda Katz, Ryan Bates, Ilya Grigorik, James Edward Gray, Tom Copeland, Evan Weaver) get a quick mention and organizers call for simple thanks to contributors and recognition of teams like thoughtbot, Phusion and RubyInside.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:12Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony
3. 7:36Melbourne, Australia
4. 8:36DataMapper
5. 10:48Appreciation
6. 11:15Give 3 Thank Yous
7. 11:31Email works too
8. 11:49thoughtbot Team thoughtbot
9. 12:37Peter Cooper
10. 13:26Filming

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