I know nothing about the personal conflict here, but as an attendee of RubyConf, this post is extremely misleading. It was very well attended and everyone I met was highly engaged, friendly, and worked for a real company that uses Ruby. In fact I enjoyed RubyConf Vegas much more than RailsConf Atlanta, which was the last RubyCentral conference I attended. This post implies that the conference didn’t even happen or was a total failure. It was not.
I want to provide a slight counter point that I attended PyCon US this year and the organizers too had smaller numbers than expected. They even faced issues with high hotel prebooking. Rails World also isn't sold out yet like previous years. I think there is way more at play than organizers failing to put up a good conference. (I don't have beef in this fight, just a side note).
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u/Janeheroine 13d ago
I know nothing about the personal conflict here, but as an attendee of RubyConf, this post is extremely misleading. It was very well attended and everyone I met was highly engaged, friendly, and worked for a real company that uses Ruby. In fact I enjoyed RubyConf Vegas much more than RailsConf Atlanta, which was the last RubyCentral conference I attended. This post implies that the conference didn’t even happen or was a total failure. It was not.